Hello fellows, I have to migrate a DS10 from True64Unix to linux. My choice was for potato.
The debian/linux is on a second hard drive. As the server may not be down very long, the install procudure is done during late hours, and it won't be in production before everything works correctly. So for now, we boot tru64 on the first drive, and make corrections to potato form time to time on the second drive. I installed the OS one month ago, without problems. During the last month, the tape-drive cable was finally installed on the machine, still with tru64. After that, when I wanted to boot Debian, I discovered after an hour that the OS would'nt discover the second hard drive as long as no tape was in the tape driver. Can someone explain me why ? Second problem is with the console a vt420 terminal on the serial port. When I installed th OS, it worked fine. Since the tape Installation (I guess, since nothing else has changed) the boot message freeses on the console when the portmap daemon is booting. (I removed the portmap daemon from the boot process, and the freeze occured after the network interfaces are setup). More, the text on the terminal seems to shake slowly, which I have never seen before. I'm not used with working with terminals, as my experience is mostly on smaller machines, But I installed a AS1000 without a problem. Can someone point me to an explanation ? Note that at that point, I am able to log in the machine from the network. Except it is very slow before the login prompt. I suspect it may be because of the autonegociation between the computer and the switch, which I'll fix tonight. My two NICS are from DEC, model tulip. And, finally, I'd like to configure that server as a mail gateway for all my organisation, but without it habing any users. All incoming messages should be redirected to our internal mail server, but it would also relay all mail for the internet coming form our internal mailserver to the internet. If I am not wrong, the internal mail server would be the MAIL_HUB, and the server would be the smart host. Am I right ? Can someone poit me to clear doc for that ? Thanks in advance Marc Dubrowski
