[ANSWER] Re: The Debian Alpha maintainers have some inappropriate elitism
On Thu, 23 Oct 1997, Christopher C Chimelis wrote: Also, I haven't seen a FAQ on this to begin with, not to mention heard of any FAQ suggestions. Maybe it's just me, but where exactly are these people asking for help? Maybe one of us should be watching debian-user since I suspect it's coming up over there Well, I cannot, alas, admit to being a core member or, even, to technical competence, but I've assembled an installation nano-HOWTO. Look at: http://www.bard.org.il/~marc Follow the birdie. In short, we're all doing this in the spare nanoseconds we have in our lives, so please have patience with us. I am indebted to Chris for the HOWTO's name :-). ---MAV Type Bits/KeyIDDate User ID pub 1024/2971208D 1997/09/11 Marc A. Volovic [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK- Version: 2.6.3i mQCNAzQYNjQAAAEEANNIjkR/0Z/HFdhIvGLf7K+YvBrcY34H1IwRPitKi29aKoan wrm5Ia2XHFxk92JJ4r0ojdTQd2e/mvOJTG6um2DykLWUmpcBhkvPtxhsP5gOrCwD fRoqQ8SIK9pxMIrIgidKa0Z1Fo+kMn7CFUy1W4oYkN96GEV2nVVaYMIpcSCNAAUR tCJNYXJjIEEuIFZvbG92aWMgPG1hcmNAYmFyZC5vcmcuaWw+iQCVAwUQNBg2NFVa YMIpcSCNAQFYwgP8Ci8CuTWtkYBsM1Ucb/cJXtYxV10piQ+5+ADt2aEgbA84imYd NS4fLh5NtrqnytD93TQZ9Ofws7jYVvfm+CtqEhZhQ0I/O4KHz/akqUHFMqQr4TDw jr4WdSGFM7Z1uwnQntMFi6HOAo21X6P6jnsKL9p4yv9pTTrSRnUynY1q9dM= =wP8P -END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Booting to SCSI
Hey everyone! Simple (hopefully) question. I've got an IDE drive on an Tyan motherboard with an Award BIOS. I recently went out and bought a Seagate Cheetah drive on a Symbios Logic (aka NCR) 53c875 host adapter (an AWESOME combination, BTW g) How do I make the system boot from the SCSI drive instead of the IDE drive? Tyan, likewise, supports booting from SCSI in newer versions of the BIOS. At least for S1563D, it does. Since you do not specify what board you have, I hope I am not misleading you. However, IFF your version of the board and Award BIOS will NOT boot SCSI (again, I suggest you check before doing the appended), you can swap the Award BIOS for MR-BIOS which _does_ allow such tricks (among other things, it also allows you to have four floppies, eight IDE drives, RAID-0 and RAID-1 from BIOS and other weird things). I am NOT fond of MR-BIOS for quite a few reasons (a Chabad prayer embedded in the strings being a very significant one :-), but it WILL provide a solution. ---MAV Type Bits/KeyIDDate User ID pub 1024/2971208D 1997/09/11 Marc A. Volovic [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK- Version: 2.6.3i mQCNAzQYNjQAAAEEANNIjkR/0Z/HFdhIvGLf7K+YvBrcY34H1IwRPitKi29aKoan wrm5Ia2XHFxk92JJ4r0ojdTQd2e/mvOJTG6um2DykLWUmpcBhkvPtxhsP5gOrCwD fRoqQ8SIK9pxMIrIgidKa0Z1Fo+kMn7CFUy1W4oYkN96GEV2nVVaYMIpcSCNAAUR tCJNYXJjIEEuIFZvbG92aWMgPG1hcmNAYmFyZC5vcmcuaWw+iQCVAwUQNBg2NFVa YMIpcSCNAQFYwgP8Ci8CuTWtkYBsM1Ucb/cJXtYxV10piQ+5+ADt2aEgbA84imYd NS4fLh5NtrqnytD93TQZ9Ofws7jYVvfm+CtqEhZhQ0I/O4KHz/akqUHFMqQr4TDw jr4WdSGFM7Z1uwnQntMFi6HOAo21X6P6jnsKL9p4yv9pTTrSRnUynY1q9dM= =wP8P -END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: what's NMI recieved.
On Tue, 14 Jan 1997, Shaya Potter wrote: I have been recieving an NMI recieved error on my linux box at school recently. It says somehting like dazed and confused, but trying to continue and it does, but I'd like to fix this. I know some of the memory chips are probably bad, and I have replacements, but I want to know which chips to replace. Is there any program that will do an intesive memory check and report if any memory is bad. Yes, gcc on Linux kernel. Start by removing as much memory as possible. Leave 8M and compile. Then insert _another_ set of 8MB and compile. Just in case, check whether you have Parity or ECC enabled in the BIOS but no Parity or ECC memory... ---MAV (finger for PGP signature block) My opinions are my own and only my own. Standard disclaimer applies. Marc A. Volovic ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Linguists do it cunningly -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Is Linux much easier to install on 68k or PPC?
On Wed, 15 Jan 1997, Hamish Moffatt wrote: Good post; I agree. My own server machine here at home (very non-critical) has two IDE hard drives and a SCSI CD-ROM, all attached to a VLB SCSI/IDE controller which I bought out of the junk basket from a local electronics store for $5. Works great under Linux. The rest of the system is a 486-33 motherboard and cpu I got for nothing, 12mb of RAM, 4mb in 30 pin simms, cranky old IDEs, a soundblaster cdrom, etc. Linux works well on it. Not for development for me, but a good web/smb/netware/print server. This is somewhat pushing the limits but still a very reasonable use for an old machine with just enough resources to make it a pity to throw it away but not enough to use it as a primary machine (even after upgrades). I am preparing to use a somewhat larger (just slightly - mainly more memory) machine as a hub for a leased line (with an FR card from Sangoma). [Cyrix snipalia] I could not agree more. There are two primary reasons to get a Pentium now - SMP and/or heavy FP work (be it games or number crunching). ---MAV (finger for PGP signature block) My opinions are my own and only my own. Standard disclaimer applies. Marc A. Volovic ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Linguists do it cunningly -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: hard disk recommendation
On Wed, 20 Nov 1996, Paul Christenson wrote: firmware on their drives, so testing continued. IBM drives are the only ones that currently meet SGI specs. This was from a conversation with an SGI tech about three weeks ago. Thanks for the correction. Not that it helped a whole lot, by the way, after the infamous patch 466 disaster with IBM Ultrastars. ---MAV (finger for PGP signature block) My opinions are my own and only my own. Standard disclaimer applies. Marc A. Volovic ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Linguists do it cunningly -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: hard disk recommendation
On Tue, 19 Nov 1996, Paul Christenson wrote: On Sun, 17 Nov 1996, Lawrence Chim wrote: In an attempt to avoid a war, I'll simply say that Silicon Graphics is using IBM SCSI drives exclusively. Given the nature of their products, I I am afraid you're wrong. I saw Seagate drives (in older stations) and, more recently, Quantum drives in High Impacts. ---MAV (finger for PGP signature block) My opinions are my own and only my own. Standard disclaimer applies. Marc A. Volovic ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Linguists do it cunningly -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SCSI tape not detected
On Thu, 23 May 1996, Pino Smith wrote: I have SCSI disks and they are detected as is the CD drive (SCSI as well), so I assume I have SCSI support in the kernel. It looks more like the kernel does not know there could be a SCSI tape. SCSI support, SCSI _disk_ support, SCSI _cdrom_ support, SCSI _generic_ support, SCSI _tape_ support and SCSI _controller_ support are all discrete units. You _MUST_ check whether this is so. Look at /usr/src/linux/.config and check whether CONFIG_CHR_DEV_ST is set to y or m. If it is n, then you have NO SCSI tape support. ---MAV (finger for PGP signature block) Marc A. Volovic ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Linguists do it cunningly
Re: SCSI tape not detected
The tape is probably NOT detected because you forgot to compile SCSI tape support into the kernel. Do that and it should work. -- ---MAV (finger for PGP signature block) Marc A. Volovic ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Linguists do it cunningly
