I agree, (bad advice is worse than the problem)but was only a reflection of my own experiences, previous email contained(OT but one of our servers is 25Mhz sun ultra running Solarius, it takes about 1/2 hour to boot, if we are lucky, really hard to believe its only 8 years old... still works as a graphics workstation, working on huge file sizes.) I think Dana might understand, anyway... if I'm right, we still have till monday, to find out, how exciting... Panther on a certris 650.
cheers Chrfit1 ---------- >From: Hudson Delbert J Contr 61 CS/SCBN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "MaX List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: Panther on a Centris 650!!!!!! >Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 2:05 AM > > sorta coming into this thread w/out knowing all the details but if > you are running a linux or bsd variant of X then ctrl-alt-backspace > will probably kill X. > > i'm not sure what services you want to keep up. > > stop-a is platform specific to Sun, lets not get them involved. > > i think we should be careful about throwing random suggestions out about > software one doesnt really know. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: MaX List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Chris > Fitzgerald > Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2004 4:53 AM > To: MaX List > Subject: Re: Panther on a Centris 650!!!!!! > > > >> Looking at the speed of it so far, ticking... away... slowly... I think >> the limiting thing won't be the refresh of window redraws, but the >> refresh of the *mouse pointer* :). >> >> If it boots as it should, I may try to move the mouse to the Apple menu >> and see if I can select Shut Down. Since it may take several hours, >> that's as far as I'll push it and my patience!. >> >> dana (oh... and plenty of screenshots!) >> http://www.danamania.com/ > > > Wish, I could tell you a keyboard command too exit X (eg.. Stop-a, but as > far as I'm aware, macs dont have a stop key(lol). Or do they.... surely > there must be something, to quit X and keep services going, if some one can > tell you, thats what I would hit, then you could type "halt", and/or > "shutdown" at the prompt. Otherwise, yes, you will be waiting like me for a > dialogue to appear(nudging the mouse, with no response)... for hours... or > as you suggest, maybe not, everything may fall into place once its up and > running, hell, how would I know. > > At this stage, I would be expecting 4 dancing gerbils to tell you that "this > hardware is not for you, your turning your harddrive into goo", in a > singsong kind of way, a easter egg for trying, but that maybe due to the > fact of looking at the screen, and listening to the drive click, buzz and > skip, for too long. > > > Cheers > > > Chrfit1 > > > -- > MaX-list is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... > > / Buy books, CDs, videos, and more from Amazon.com \ > / <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect-home/lowendmac> \ > > Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> > > MaX-list info: <http://lowendmac.com/linux/max.shtml> > --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; > Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/max-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> > > Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com > > -- > MaX-list is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... > > / Buy books, CDs, videos, and more from Amazon.com \ > / <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect-home/lowendmac> \ > > Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> > > MaX-list info: <http://lowendmac.com/linux/max.shtml> > --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; > Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/max-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> > > Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com > -- MaX-list is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... / Buy books, CDs, videos, and more from Amazon.com \ / <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect-home/lowendmac> \ Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> MaX-list info: <http://lowendmac.com/linux/max.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/max-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
