There's a doc that comes with the kernel source
(Documentation/serial-console.txt) that tells you how to setup serial
consoles. This is usually the easist way to setup headless machines. Note
that some PCs will not boot w/o a keyboard attached (I have a handful of
Compaqs like this) in which
Seems like I had this problem before and had a solution, but of course I
failed to document it. Anyway, for some reason certain websites are not
accessible via our Linux Masqing machine. Some of these are needed for the
office and others like Linux Today are important for other reasons. The
On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Rich Payne wrote:
The only other issue I've come accross is that most PCs can't redirect
their BIOS output to the serial port (I gather some newer ones can finally
do this), so you're waiting until LILO outputs something.
Don't forget some of the open-BIOS projects that
On 19 Oct, elawson wrote:
Seems like I had this problem before and had a solution, but of course I
failed to document it. Anyway, for some reason certain websites are not
accessible via our Linux Masqing machine. Some of these are needed for the
office and others like Linux Today are
On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Ken Ambrose wrote:
On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Rich Payne wrote:
The only other issue I've come accross is that most PCs can't redirect
their BIOS output to the serial port (I gather some newer ones can finally
do this), so you're waiting until LILO outputs something.
I seem to recall that someone was working on NetApp-like snapshot
functionality for the 2.4(.5?) kernel series. These aren't LVM-like; this
is an actual heirarchy of logical files that are actually the original
file, with subsequent deltas (thus preserving disk space quite nicely). I
would
No - you're not getting senile (yet). I think you are thinking of the
Veritas File System (also Tru64's AdvFS). But good luck getting a port
to Linux!
--Bruce
Ken Ambrose wrote:
I seem to recall that someone was working on NetApp-like snapshot
functionality for the 2.4(.5?) kernel series.
On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Paul Moore wrote:
i think you might have the wrong card in mind, the 2400a has four ata-100
channels.
Oops, you are right -- I misread the product description.
they offer another low-cost model that only has two ports and by my
best-guess looks like a hw/sw raid
