Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 07:22:20 -0700 (PDT) From: David Wolfskill <dhw@whistle.com> To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: First time for my own PC hardware Message-ID: <199907231422.HAA65087@pau-amma.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <3797204E.53601B1A@uswest.net>
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A quick follow-up: had a chance to go pick up the DIN-to-mini-DIN adapter that I was still lacking, so I did that last night. Connected the keyboard, plugged in the power... and the machine passed the "smoke test". (Terry (Lambert) explained that these machines work because of the "magic smoke" inside them. If the magic smoke leaks out, they stop working. Oh: :-) Anyway, none of the magic smoke leaked out.) And I get the distinct impression that a Matrox Millenium G400 is *not* completely backwards compatible with the G200: I haven't been able to get X configured so that the X server will start. I'll probably see if I can take the G400 back; maybe they'll have a G200 in stock. I'll be copying some examples I have here at work to make amd on the box behave reasonably, so my wife's home directory (which is on the SS5, along with all the others) will be found. It seems to be coping with NIS (aka "yp") OK. (Yes, I run NIS at home, as well as automounters, NFS, nameservice, NTP, and a bunch of other stuff. Basically, any of us should be able to login on any machine from any machine.) Re-built the kernel, tossing devices I don't expect I'll ever need (ISA Ethernet NICs, for example), and adding soft updates. Real customization will need to wait 'til the DSL connection is working properly: since it was easier, I had merely been doing any FTP from the (exposed) 3/60. With the DSL connection, I'll have a dedicated firewall/NAT box, so the individual machines on the inside should have the services available to them. Anyway, that's when I'll add the various bits (like tcsh) that we'll need. So: A few bumps along the way, but the general direction seems OK, even if the magnitude isn't quite what I'd like. Cheers, david -- David Wolfskill dhw@whistle.com UNIX System Administrator voice: (650) 577-7158 pager: (888) 347-0197 FAX: (650) 372-5915 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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