Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 17:27:47 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Phil Regnauld <regnauld@ftf.net> Cc: Gianmarco Giovannelli <gmarco@scotty.masternet.it>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing Linux (was: Sanity regained -- back with the best) Message-ID: <19990719172747.A72625@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <19990719095612.41282@ns.int.ftf.net>; from Phil Regnauld on Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 09:56:12AM %2B0200 References: <XFMail.990718043632.conrads@home.com> <4.2.0.58.19990718101705.00ccb720@localhost> <4.1.19990718224838.01324160@194.184.65.4> <19990719134536.K65436@freebie.lemis.com> <19990719095612.41282@ns.int.ftf.net>
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On Monday, 19 July 1999 at 9:56:12 +0200, Phil Regnauld wrote: > Greg Lehey writes: >> >> I installed Debian from the CDs distributed at USENIX. It was a >> *whole* lot better than UnixWare, but so far everything has been. > > Wow, I tried that yesterday, it took _hours_! But it worked at the end? It didn't like my Dell Latitude at all. > I had to manually load the eepro100 driver from the driver disk > (the install reminded me of early FreeBSD / NetBSD), Yes, I got that impression too. In fact, it reminds me more of early UnixWare (1.0, back in late 1992). > though the package selection mechanism was quite pwerful (definitely > not newbie stuff). > > Also, I was annoyed at not being able to install over FTP. > >> I've just completed a backup of the Debian partition, and I'll try >> RedHat 5.2 next (5.2 because that's what I got given at the NT UNIX >> Conference last week). > > I've given up on redhat -- it sends me into convulsions every > time I try to understand their rc files. I haven't got that far yet. The installation worked fine once I guessed what to do with the Disk Droid, but it gave me a list of Ethernet boards which didn't include my 3C589, so it didn't install notworking. So I configured the thing manually and tried to do it with linuxconf. I've now got it to display the correct peepholes into the config, but every time I enter something into them and press "accept", it erases them without complaining and then replaces them with the defaults. At the same time it spits out garbage on the terminal from which I started it. Not a very impressive performance. Ah. After stopping and restarting linuxconf, it's saved the info after all. It also seems to suffer from sporadic networking problems, like this one: [root@localhost grog]# emacs /etc& [3] 561 [root@localhost grog]# _X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 101 emacs: Cannot connect to X server freebie:0. Check the DISPLAY environment variable or use `-d'. Also use the `xhost' program to verify that it is set to permit connections from your machine. emacs /etc& [3] Exit 1 emacs /etc [root@localhost grog]# The second time it worked just fine. Hmm, nothing much wrong with the rc.d stuff. It looks like it was stolen from System V. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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