The day begins by worrying my data. I packed the notebook and 80G HD ready and planned to go to the Information Center for a repair. Hopefully they can bring my data back.
Just before I leave, I decided to give the HD another chance: I called Jerry and went to his home, attached the HD to his box. God! Everything is there! The HD can even boot on his machine! It’s always good to know that your data is there 
Relax and have a chat with Jerry. And he convinced me to sell the old 256M memory out and buy two 512M go get a better performance and avoid compatible problems. Hmm, good, I’ll need more money.
There are lots of choice for a HD, and I choosed a WD 200G one with 8M cache, I don’t need to worry about disk space for a long time And no supprise, I got two 512M memory cards
Then came back home and borrow Jerry’s LCD to install the system. Wired, the old 80G still don’t want to work with my PC. Then borrow Jerry’s USB movable HD box, and the 80G works with it. OK, it would work with anyone else except the PC it has worked for 2 years! The new 200G HD works with the PC “out of the box”. So the PC don’t work with the 80G either! Hmmm, the old couple got some problem
Bad news never come along. When we first boot the PC, it begin to say some “foreign language” like “Diwe reen aelver”. I guess it’s “Disk boot failur”. Maybe that’s because the 200G was made in Tailand? However, when I began install FreeBSD on the box, FreeBSD began to say foreign language too. For now I realize that there must be some problem with the memory. After some pull and push, it turns out that one of the 512M memory has got some problem, wherever I install it, with or without the other one, the box says foreign language. Hmmm, I need to replace it tomorrow.
OK I began install OS on the box with only one 512M memory, everything looks fine: the familar FreeBSD install program is nice. And what? The combo won’t read the CD it burned half an year ago! OK, what a mess. I’d have to do network install. Thanks to the FreeBSD project, there is still another way around. And to make the things worse, I forget with of my network card should connect to Internet and which should to intranet. OK, we are hungry after all of these. So go out for dinner.
After a good dinner I came back to do the network install. Checking all my old notes and find out the MAC and connection of the network cards. However this is during the peak time of the nextwork trafic and the package download is so slooow. Anyway I’ll work over night today so start a backup on the notebook and went to get some rest.
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