Noong Miy, Mar 22, 2006 ng 01:26:48AM +0800, sinabi ni Miguel A Paraz: > Wow, smail. Nostalgia.
I'm trying to remember what else I had to configure. There were FOSS programs that ran on DOS as well as Linux to help do some of the things we needed back then. > eric, could you tell us about the Aliens Alcove BBS setup? Pre-Linux, Aliens' Alcove ran WWIV v4.10(?) on a measly PC-XT clone running MS-DOS. I made a decision to register WWIV back then (it was shareware) because doing so would give me access to the sources in C, which was what I wanted. Having access to the source would give me more control over how my BBS worked and I liked that. I still keep a tab on developments on WWIV and they've successfully ported it to Linux now. I later upgraded my machine to a 386dx because I wanted to run Linux eventually. Initially, I had a hard time getting Linux to run from boot floppies due to several factors; I had a 5.25" floppy drive as boot floppy and I only had 4MB RAM. There were no floppy disk images for 5.25" back then, so, with Jonathan Marsden's help, I did some crazy things with rawrite.c to copy a 5.25" image from a 1.44M image, which is actually a silly thing to do, in retrospect. I know better now how to do it, but back then, I had only DOS tools to bootstrap into Linux. It wasn't as easy as it is today because everything was still rough. I eventually got a 1.44M 3.5" drive as boot disk and still had only 4MB RAM. I finally got to see Linux booting on the machine. But that's just getting it to boot. Installation was another matter. Booting from that drive into Linux was a pain. Since SLS install scripts were written in shell script, it required a lot of memory. It took an eon and a half to get to the initial setup screens. Setting up a swap partition did help a bit, but it was still slow as molasses. Getting another 4MB RAM into the box helped speed up things significantly later on. I only had a 20MB hard disk, so I had to shuffle a lot of stuff from my DOS partition onto floppy disks to clear up enough room to install a basic Linux system. More about this later if anyone cares. -- ___ Eric Pareja (xenos AT upm.edu.ph) | Information Management Service [IMS] \e/ Network and Systems Administrator | University of the Philippines Manila _v_ [ http://www.upm.edu.ph/~xenos ][GPG: B82E42D9][http://tinyurl.com/68dkm] "Ang hindi marunong magmahal ng sariling wika ay higit pa sa malansang isda."
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