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 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> <19990719172747.A72625@freebie.lemis.com>
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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). -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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