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Date:      Mon, 19 Jul 1999 10:48:59 +0200
From:      Phil Regnauld <regnauld@ftf.net>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Cc:        freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Installing Linux (was: Sanity regained -- back with the best)
Message-ID:  <19990719104859.08752@ns.int.ftf.net>
In-Reply-To: <19990719172747.A72625@freebie.lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 05:27:47PM %2B0930
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Greg Lehey writes:
> >
> > 	Wow, I tried that yesterday, it took _hours_!
> 
> But it worked at the end?  It didn't like my Dell Latitude at all.

	Sort of  (I was having problems with the FreeBSD NFS server at that
	moment) -- I haven't played enough with it yet, but yes, it did
	boot multi-user.

> 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.

	... why is why I go looking into the rc files :-)

> Hmm, nothing much wrong with the rc.d stuff.  It looks like it was
> stolen from System V.

	It's more the way they do their dynamic module loading which
	horrifies me (peeking into /proc to see if the device was seen,
	load the module -- which happens to fail quite often with 
	the TR cards we have here).

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