Re: Newbie questions...

2003-06-02 Thread Andrew Sharp
On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 07:06:04PM -0400, Mason Loring Bliss wrote: > Hey, all. I'm trying to broaden my horizons, so I've taken one of my infra- > structure machines that was running NetBSD and I've installed Woody on it. > > One thing I notice right off the bat is that things are a good bit more

Newbie questions...

2003-05-29 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
Hey, all. I'm trying to broaden my horizons, so I've taken one of my infra- structure machines that was running NetBSD and I've installed Woody on it. One thing I notice right off the bat is that things are a good bit more sluggish in terms of user interaction. I don't yet know why this is, but I

Re: Newbie questions

2001-01-31 Thread Anton Blanchard
> > Do you get an oops report or does it lock up hard? I'd like to track this > > bug down since I havent had access to a > 2 CPU machine for a while. > > No. it just stops. =^/ > Is there a way for me to help tracking it ? If you have a keyboard, does the caps lock key work (ie the keyboard dr

Re: Newbie questions

2001-01-31 Thread Pablo Borges
On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, Anton Blanchard wrote: > > > > Do you get an oops report or does it lock up hard? I'd like to track this > > > bug down since I havent had access to a > 2 CPU machine for a while. > > > > No. it just stops. =^/ > > Is there a way for me to help tracking it ? > > If you have

Re: Newbie questions

2001-01-26 Thread Pablo Borges
On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, Anton Blanchard wrote: > > Second, the machine hangs or boots when used heavily by period of aprox. > > 3hs. I'm crunching distributed.net rc5 keys, a task that uses full > > processing power, when these things happen. > > Do you get an oops report or does it lock up hard? I

Re: Newbie questions

2001-01-26 Thread Anton Blanchard
Hi, > I've recently installed potato on a e4500 machine and noticed some strange > behaviour. > > First, the bogoMIPS calculation is quite strange: > Jan 26 17:00:21 levaca kernel: Calibrating delay loop... 799.53 BogoMIPS > Jan 26 17:00:21 levaca last message repeated 7 times > Jan 26 17:00:2

Re: Newbie questions

2001-01-26 Thread Pablo Borges
About the wrong bogoMIPS calculation I've noticed that its a 2.4.0 kernel issue. Maybe we should report the guys, if I did't anything lame. =^) About the power, is there a way to obtain human readable output from openprom environment info ? []'s Pablo On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Pablo Borges wrote:

Newbie questions

2001-01-26 Thread Pablo Borges
Hi all, I've recently installed potato on a e4500 machine and noticed some strange behaviour. First, the bogoMIPS calculation is quite strange: Jan 26 17:00:21 levaca kernel: Calibrating delay loop... 799.53 BogoMIPS Jan 26 17:00:21 levaca last message repeated 7 times Jan 26 17:00:21 levaca ke

Re: newbie questions

2000-10-31 Thread Ari Heitner
On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, Lars Hall wrote: > i have sparcstation5 > i have a solaris 2.6 cd from the factory and i can reinstall it all day > long (literally) without problems > i want to install linux and run gnome and or kde For the record, since people are saying GNOME is broken on debian-sparc (i

Re: newbie questions

2000-10-28 Thread Randy Reames
On Fri, 27 Oct 2000 13:30:50 -0500, Lars Hall said: > i have sparcstation5 > i have a solaris 2.6 cd from the factory and i can reinstall it all day > long (literally) without problems > i want to install linux and run gnome and or kde > i didnt find an iso image for debian (where can i get o

Re: newbie questions

2000-10-27 Thread Daniel Freedman
Lars, On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, Lars Hall wrote: > i have sparcstation5 > i have a solaris 2.6 cd from the factory and i can reinstall it all day > long (literally) without problems > i want to install linux and run gnome and or kde > i didnt find an iso image for debian (where can i get one?) so i

newbie questions

2000-10-27 Thread Lars Hall
i have sparcstation5 i have a solaris 2.6 cd from the factory and i can reinstall it all day long (literally) without problems i want to install linux and run gnome and or kde i didnt find an iso image for debian (where can i get one?) so i downloaded and burnt a redhat 6.2 for sparc iso image to

Re: newbie questions

2000-10-23 Thread Brian Walton
http://www.linuxiso.org Brian Walton - Original Message - From: Lars Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, October 23, 2000 12:49 AM Subject: newbie questions > where can i get an linux image (any flavor) that i can downlowd via http > to my pc and then burn a cd fr

newbie questions

2000-10-23 Thread Lars Hall
where can i get an linux image (any flavor) that i can downlowd via http to my pc and then burn a cd from it that i can install on a sun sparcstation 5 w/ 64 m ram and 3 gig hd space. will a 32x + scsi cdrom work in an external sun cd rom reader model 411, scsi 2, i think? can i buy an external re

Re: sparc-newbie questions

2000-10-05 Thread Derek R. Pizzagoni
Hi Jeremy, I'm running RedHat 6.2 on my Ultra 10, and there was a native SPARC version of Netscape communicator in the distribution. It is version 4.51. You should be able to go to RedHat's FTP site (or any of its mirrors that support SPARC), and download the RPMs. If you can't find them, let

Re: sparc-newbie questions

2000-10-05 Thread Ragga Muffin
Hendrik Seffler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > There really isn't a version of communicator or navigator for >> > Sparc-Linux, is >> > there? The netscape site seems to think everyone running "Linux" would be >> > on an i386 architecture .. or am I missing something? >> >> There is a Netsc

Re: sparc-newbie questions

2000-10-05 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 02:48:06PM +0200, Hendrik Seffler wrote: > "Jeremy Rashbrooke" schrieb: > > > Q3. > > There really isn't a version of communicator or navigator for Sparc-Linux, > > is > > there? The netscape site seems to think everyone running "Linux" would be > > on an i386 archite

Re: sparc-newbie questions

2000-10-05 Thread Dario Rossi
On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, Ben Collins wrote: BC>On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 02:48:06PM +0200, Hendrik Seffler wrote: BC>> "Jeremy Rashbrooke" schrieb: BC>> BC>> > Q3. BC>> > There really isn't a version of communicator or navigator for Sparc-Linux, is BC>> > there? The netscape site seems to think eve

Re: sparc-newbie questions

2000-10-05 Thread Hendrik Seffler
"Jeremy Rashbrooke" schrieb: > Q3. > There really isn't a version of communicator or navigator for Sparc-Linux, is > there? The netscape site seems to think everyone running "Linux" would be > on an i386 architecture .. or am I missing something? There is a Netscape 4.51 (IIRC) which is not

sparc-newbie questions

2000-10-04 Thread Jeremy Rashbrooke
Howdi, I've finally got a decent sparc (Ultra-10) box to run Debian on. I've been playing with Debian for years on the i386 .. and was most impressed with the way that "things just worked" again, once I got rid of Solaris on this machine. I have hit a couple of problems, though, that are