Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 22:55:58 -0600 (CST) From: Mike Eldridge <diz@cafes.net> To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: finally :) Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10012042221270.17712-100000@mail.cafes.net>
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I finally got my Multia up and running FreeBSD 4.1 after I got the serial cable I needed in the mail today. I feel lost now. I have grown so incredibly used to Linux over the past 4 years that everything feels out of place. The whole master.passwd/vipw thing screws with my head. :) I've had the kernel panic once shortly after I got it up and running with a memory management fault. Not quite sure what that was, but I do hope none of this true parity memory is bad. If it happens again, I'll be sure to take note of the error, registers, etc, and pick all of your brains. I want to put the alpha's serial console on my linux box's tty11, but I can't quite figure out how I'd do that. The getty runs on the receiving end, so I can't just throw a getty up on tty11 cause it would throw a huge hissy fit whenever it received the login banner from the other side. I'm sure it would be quite humorous to watch that for about 5 seconds. I'm wondering if there is a simple serial communications proggie (minicom > simple) that I can throw in my inittab to access the alpha's console from this linux box's console. I think it would be pretty nifty to have tty11 actually be a terminal for a remote machine. Now that I think about it, serial's pretty rough. I'd be much better off logging into the box via telnet/ssh than putting up with a < 112Kbps serial link. The install was pretty speedy for a multia, I was impressed. Once I find a couple more parts for my other multia, I'll be setting up a cluster. I'll probably end up writing some goofy useless distributed proggie just so I can say I ran a parallel multitasking app. MPI/PVM is so nifty. :) I wonder how long it would take a pair of multia 166s to render Titanic. Heh, while I was compiling bash, I noticed the extremely flagrant "The -O2 flag TRIGGERS KNOWN OPTIMIZER BUGS ON THIS PLATFORM" warning. I thought it was quite amusing, similar to the BUGS section of the gnu strtok(3) manpage: "NEVER USE THIS FUNCTION!" :) goodnight, Mike ----------------------------------------------------- Save the whales. Feed the hungry. Free the mallocs. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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