On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 8:49 PM, erik quanstrom <[email protected]> wrote: >> > I have no idea. I just chose the default installation options, >> > installing from the CD following the install instructions. As far as I >> > know, "Venti" is a volcano in Italy. >> > >> >> In that case, you'll only have Fossil installed. > > and here i thought that venti was a swimming pool of > rather bland coffee. ☺ > > just for clarity, it's possible to install from cd with either > fossil or fossil+venti. i'd recommend against a fossil+venti > install unless you can give clean shutdowns more than just a > good college try. > > - erik > >
That is definitely a consideration. For instance, I've found that Fossil wants to dump to Venti in the first boot after installation; if you should reboot before it's done, you can easily end up with a corrupted filesystem. This has happened to me several times, usually because I install and then immediately begin setting up the system as a cpu/auth/file server... which requires rebooting after a few minutes of configuration changes. Oh, and if you don't have DMA on, your Venti dumps will take hours. I found that after ripping a few CDs, the 4 a.m. scheduled dump would still be going on at noon. "echo dma on > /dev/sdC0/ctl" will take care of that, put it in your termrc/cpurc to enable it at every boot. John
