RE: Rebooting servers..

["Rob Mouser" <rmouser@xxxxxxx>]

Don't know how you can do a unattended scandisk but you can certainly
turn it off completely after a improper shut down. Open your
C:MSDOS.SYS
file in Notepad. Scroll to the bottom of the screen until you see the
command line AutoScan=1. Change it to AutoScan=0. If the line isn't
there, add it at the bottom. This will stop it running for good. If all
that's confusing install TweakUI and turn it off on the 'boot' tab.


Many Thanks 
Rob 
Rob Mouser 
rmouser@xxxxxxx 
rob@xxxxxxx 

-----Original Message-----
From: Matthew Norman [mailto:mafiu@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 30 July 2002 14:23
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] Rebooting servers..


I have a very small server that handles web pages and a bit of
filestore
space.  This runs on windows 98 lite and runs like the clappers on
a
meager Cyrix 180Mz processor.
I want to leave it with windows 98 as it has been really stable and is
no hassle at all to configure.  It sits in my loft and is connected
to
my asdl router.  I'm really happy with it.

Last night in Milton Keynes we had the mother and father of all
thunderstorms.  Best one I ever saw.  It made my sky digital go
mad and
my adsl connection drop and then some brown power reset all of the
computers in the house.  (tivo tried admirably to cope recording
something for me at the time but I even had to reboot that as it too
had
a bit of a nervous breakdown.)

Anyway my loft server tried to reboot itself and and went straight into
scan disk, and found some lost clusters on the disk and then just
stopped there waiting for me to press ok.  Of course this was at dos
so
I couldnt netmeeting or vnc into it to say go ahead, so I had to climb
the ladder and press any key.

So my question (after too much background really) is how can you make a
98 pc do an unattended scandisk after an impropper shutdown (Or indeed
just do no scandisk at all)
Is it possible?  Any one done this?

(before any one mentions it yes I did have a linux box doing this
before
and yes it probably is more stable, however it didnt work correctly
with
the hardware I've got in the box (probably because of my ineptitude) 
I
am running apache on it and not pws though....)

Matthew