So that was an adventure. I shanghai'd kitten into dragging me and the new hdd down to Capital Internet and made him wait while I did my little thing. So props to kitten for not breaking things.

Although I have to tell you, having kitten sitting around poking at buttons and playing with power drills was really distracting. And nerve-wracking.

Anyway. Everything went as planned up until the point where we tried re-racking the machine. The screws I had scrounged up originally were wood screws, and the wrong width. I know fuck-all about screws. So as we're racking it, the screws fall off the ears and yeah. That's no good. So kitten and I have to go to ACE hardware and get new screws. Now as kitten tends more towards the logical than I, he figured out whatever the hell system they use for screw sizes (10-32 -- and, in fact, the screws the machine uses aren't normal computer screws at all but electrical screws; because I know the difference) and we finally got the goddamn thing mounted.

So then I forget that they block not only incoming ICMP but outgoing (even stateful, which is what really threw me), so I stare kinda whine and bitch at the empty server room for a few minutes. Then it dawns on me, and yeah. So it comes back up just fine.

I just got done re-populating the MySQL database.I actually sort of did it the hard way (of course) insofar as that instead of just tarballing the form and data files, I mysqldump'd the entire database (mysqldump -A > foo). So, as an expermient, and after asking people on irk who ignored me, I dropped the `mysql' database itself (which houses all the user and priv info) and just did: `mysql < foo'. Worked like a charm. Flushed the system and up it came, no worries.

Nice, that.

So behold the new filesystem in all its glory.

Anyway. I need to either take a nap or start packing.

Guess which it'll be.