On Sun, 10 Feb 2002, Yuri de Groot wrote: > You had to keep to machine turned on just so you could keep your "uptime" > intact huh? :-)
It'd only been up 35 days. I don't care much about uptime now since the power failure stopped my last effort after about 2 3/4 years, after which I was glad to be able to put in the big drive with a fresh Slackware 8.0 install and a newer kernel. Long uptimes are fine but you can't upgrade your kernel or fiddle with your hardware... or even relocate the machine. The main reason I didn't shut it down is because last time I did so it was a real pain to boot again due to BIOS issues between the now deceased I/O card, the motherboard, and the 6Gb hard drive. It requires manual intervention and I didn't feel like getting the monitor & keyboard from the other room. Anyway I didn't expect problems :) BTW one thing I like about Linux over Windows is that I can take my drive and boot it on another machine without the OS detecting all sorts of hardware changes and attempting to install drivers or boot into a painstaking "safe mode". Handy for checking that your drive works, and for getting the e2fsck done on a faster machine. Also handy for installing. Some of the bigger packages, and the kernel, take quite a while to compile on a 486/100. Cheers, - Dave... http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/ (somewhat out of date)
