Text 7695, 153 rader
Skriven 2006-10-24 03:28:04 av James Bradley (1:134/77.0)
   Kommentar till text 7675 av Maurice Kinal (1:140/13.1)
Ärende: ttylinux
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On or about: 10-21-06  20:30, Maurice Kinal did engage James Bradley regarding,
but not limited to: ttylinux

 JB> low-tech chores instead. (See next for a blow by blow.)

 MK> It landed previous here and I read it before this one.  

Then I realized that I misconstrued the order. It's been one of those weeks. At
least I got a good dose of F1 racing today, so life could be worse.

 MK> Interesting but I am not sure I am understanding it.
 MK> Offhand it looked like scsi is a winner other then CD-
 MK> ROM(s).  Did I read that right?

I can boot to the CD easily enough, but it was built to run it on a seperate
built-in Adaptec; an AIC-7880. I've since found the appropriate pin reducer and
cables, to graft the drive array onto the the same adapter. Usually the
hot-swap array runs on another built-in Adaptec; an AIC-7890.

I have to unplug one of the six HDs in the array with this arrangement, in
order to free up a device # for the CD, (The 7880 is not a "wide" adapter.) but
I'm not using the last three anyway for the time. (RAID 5 formated.) I'm
suspecting there might be a BIOS to flash with them, in order to keep both in
play, but it remains that the kernel module (SINGULAR) named aic7xxx is as
specific as it gets. <?>
 
 JB> plant in a pot was one hell of a producer. Tasty peppers too!

 MK> I like the sounds of all that!  Are we talking hot peppers 
 MK> or the standard garden variety peppers?

How dare you ask! <L> Jalapenos, and a sweet Yellow variety, that still packs a
punch. Not like those bloated, Beefsteak sized balloons - they are about the
length of a hand, and pretty compact around the plinth. (I'm trying to call it
"plinth", but I know it's called something else horticultually.)
 
 JB> the jack-hammer sure came in handy!

 MK> Heh, heh.  Yeah I could have used one of those a few months back but
 MK> today I  am more or less happy the way things worked out after 
 MK> deciding to get brutal without the desired jack-hammer.  A 
 MK> sledge-hammer might be a reasonable substitute in my 
 MK> particular circumstances.  :-)

We were tamping fence posts with a shoe at the business end. The first post was
done by him and his wife, using a prybars' wrong end. After watching them
distroy themselves that day, I offered the heavy artillery. We punched the rest
of the 100' fence out in two afternoons.

 MK> Oh well.  Live and learn eh?
 
Sometimes they do, and sometimes they don't. <I'd laugh, if it wasn't so
pathetic.>

 JB> swim, eh?

 MK> Me too.  I guess we'll see how long we can tread water but 
 MK> I ain't making any promises to my duration.  I'll do my 
 MK> best though but I get tired out easily these days so we'll 
 MK> see.

Well, I know I suffer from trying to be too helpful. As you are one *hell* of a
resource here, It'd be sad to see you sink into the Pacific.

 JB> I've been bugging the mirrors, and getting sidestepped by life. I'm

 MK> Which one looks best to you?  Overall the Utah one seems to work out

The one Google said, contained "Slackware 11 .iso ". <G> I was poking into the
listed mirrors, and specifically narrowed it down to the http hosts. (Someting
about "sockets per ftp host being limited," and how the "iso images would not
be posted there, in order to facilitate small file downloads." Bla-bla-bla...)
I did pick up the check-sum files via ftp, and went looking outside the "Get
Slacked" page to expidite the chore. BitTorrent was downloaded, but I didn't
have the right Python libraries <?> to utilize it.

 MK> getting the 64-bit guy in sync with the rest.  Looking good 
 MK> though ... so far.  :::knock on wood:::

That involves you to roll your own kernel with Slack, no? I've noticed other
flavours have a pre-baked kernel to run 64-bit, but didn't I see you mention
how that extra width just sits idle anyway?

 MK> The C3 guy could use a cleaning and upgrade but it can wait a tad

"Why do today, what you can put off for tomorrow?" [-| How many man-hours are
wasted with "B" and "C" priority items, just because they were writen down
before the "A" priority items? My twist on the axium holds water.

 JB> absorbing downloads, until I started messing with the 11g ideas.

 MK> Wireless?  We have a plan here for next week that might 
 MK> produce some gains on that front.

Ya, I tried to run wirelessly from his router (...Or whatever it is.) into an
eth->11g device. (No, I'm not looking for troubleshooting advice here, you
overly helpful, stellar example of a nice guy! ;-)

 JB> preference.) Regardless, the firewall seems able there, but I can't 
 JB> tax it, or the deck of cards falls.

 MK> Hm.  Maybe some shutters?

Maybe, I'll fetch the hammer-drill! <ROTF>

 JB> Oh ya. I picked up a 64b AM2 MB-CPU combo.

 MK> Interesting.  What's the motherboard got for chipsets?  I haven't seen

[I just tried to to get up for the docs in the other room. Attempt #2 is
queuing.] AMI BIOS, ATI 1XP 400, (Must be the onboard Vid? PS: ATI radeon
9000/9100, bla-bla-bla.) PPS: ATI RS482, and RS400 *are* the chipsets. Maybe I
*have* been out of this stuff for some time, as I don't recal them making
chipsets.

It's coming along nicely: Rackmount case, some RAM I bought for the cost of two
postage stamps, (Ya, ya... I know! B-) and an AT 133 HD. Slack 10, and W2K seem
happy on it, and yes, this operator is less pleased with the second OS. (As if
it's even a close second!)

 MK> too  many that managed to escape from the evil clutches of the
 MK> nforce/nvidia blackhole, or at least it looked like a 
 MK> blackhole when I looked at it.  As of yesterday Paul (my 

And Nvida is also producing chipsets too, then?

 MK> neighbour) was still banging his head against the wall
 MK> trying to get glibc properly built.  Beats me why that is 
 MK> giving him grief and he refuses to listen to me so here we 
 MK> still are.  He still believes he can beat me at my own 
 MK> game.  :-)

"Ya... Good luck with that!" Knowing that "Paul" could likely run circles
around me, I'll wait to see what he comes up with.


 JB> Err... Pictures at eleven.

 MK> Cool.  Are we having fun yet?

As long as it's a learning experience, I'm content. <BWEG>

Now that I have all my SCSI drives on the same adapter in my Dell, it may be
the right candidate for the Slack smoketest. (PS: iso didn't seem to burn
right. Need three days to recover, before going for a new copy.)


... James

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