Basic questions on the kernel

2003-05-30 Thread Girish Kale
Hi, I have a few basic questions on the kernel performance: 1) For embedded systems, even though standard linux may not have hard real-time performance unless real-time patch, low latency patch are applied, I would like to know if linux can give "deterministic" performance. Meaning can we be guar

Using a URL to access a variable background image

2003-05-30 Thread Haines Brown
Sorry for this petty question. There's a web page that displays a jpeg image that changes every minute and would make an interesting background image for my monitor (obviously, I have a continuous connection). What I have is a url to a webpage that displays the .jpg and defines its size. How wou

Re: Linux as a router and/or bridge

2003-05-30 Thread John T. Williams
if you look up NAT masq and iptables you'll find all the information you need A good place to start is http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/IP-Masquerade-HOWTO/ Sincerely, John T. Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: "J S" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "linux-newbie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Basic question on bootloader

2003-05-30 Thread Girish Kale
Hi, I am new to Linux We are developing a device on which we plan to run Linux. The device will use some processor like MIPs, PowerPC, etc. What I want to know is : 1) can the standard bootloader like LILO work with these devices also or do each device have their own bootloaders ? 2) how

Re: Linux as a router and/or bridge

2003-05-30 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 11:08 PM 5/29/2003 -0400, J S wrote: Linux people, I'm trying to understand how to set up a Linux system as a router. For example, assume I have an interface with IP address 192.168.0.1(eth0) and another with IP address 192.168.1.1(eth1). What do I need to do to allow traffic received on one

Linux as a router and/or bridge

2003-05-30 Thread J S
Linux people, I'm trying to understand how to set up a Linux system as a router. For example, assume I have an interface with IP address 192.168.0.1(eth0) and another with IP address 192.168.1.1(eth1). What do I need to do to allow traffic received on one interface to be automatically forwarded

Re: Slackware 8.1.01 Install????

2003-05-30 Thread Chuck Gelm
James Miller wrote: > Seems like this should work. Isn't Slack the distro that asks you which > kernel image you want to install at the very end of the install process? Uh, huh. But I have always simply used the boot floppy and then compiled my own kernel later. :-| Chuck > > James > -

Re: Slackware 8.1.01 Install????

2003-05-30 Thread James Miller
On Thu, 29 May 2003, pa3gcu wrote: > > > > As of now I've concluded the only _easy_ way out is to termporarily > > fit an IDE CD for the install and then re-fit the SCSI CD.. What do > > YOU think??? Appreciate!! > > There could be another way; > I have installed slackware 9 on a couple of machines

Re: Slackware 8.1.01 Install????

2003-05-30 Thread Chuck Gelm
Hal MacArgle wrote: > > Greetings: Slackware 8.1.01 installs easily on our machines with an ^^^ Do a 'nfs' install with the CD mounted on one of the other machines. -or- If you can boot any OS to the IDE/SCSI machine, copy the CD contents

Re: Slackware 8.1.01 Install????

2003-05-30 Thread pa3gcu
On Thursday 29 May 2003 22:54, Hal MacArgle wrote: > Greetings: Slackware 8.1.01 installs easily on our machines with an > IDE HD and IDE CD, booting the CD nicely and installing from the CD, > with the BIOS set properly.. > > However; the subject machine has an IDE 20gB HD and a __SCSI CD__, > wit

Slackware 8.1.01 Install????

2003-05-30 Thread Hal MacArgle
Greetings: Slackware 8.1.01 installs easily on our machines with an IDE HD and IDE CD, booting the CD nicely and installing from the CD, with the BIOS set properly.. However; the subject machine has an IDE 20gB HD and a __SCSI CD__, with a BusLogic SCSI card, creating an insurmountable problem - s

RE: USB devices, mount points and fstab

2003-05-30 Thread James Miller
On Wed, 28 May 2003, Alan Cox wrote: > > Alan: Is there any likelihood that Linux could be tweaked to provide a > > similar facility using the 11-character volume labels available > > in the various FAT formats? > > I've no idea what the mount tool owners have planned - the label handl