Text 11874, 92 rader
Skriven 2008-10-09 21:46:52 av Russell Tiedt (5:7105/1)
  Kommentar till text 11872 av Maurice Kinal (1:261/38)
Ärende: highway to hell
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Hello Maurice.

08 Oct 08 22:55, you wrote to me:

 >> dnsmasq

 MK> You shouldn't need that with an enabled iptables nat kernel.  The
 MK> supplied iptables in the current ttylinux will work once the proper
 MK> kernel stuff is turned on.  Also will have to modify the iptables rc
 MK> script to handle nat.

Dunno, I am just starting to read up on such things ...

 >> Ooops, husky hpt, htick, sqpack, and lateset MakeNl

 MK> Haven't looked at any of that stuff lately.  Will have to add
 MK> libncurses but that would be needed despite the above so it shouldn't
 MK> be an issue.

Been thinking, if I can get the thing to boot, then I should be able to 
compile those and get them to work on there without too much trouble ... ( 
touches wood )

 >>  MK> Doom and gloom EVERYWHERE!!!

 >> So what' new ... <VVBG>

 MK> Extra special, new and improved doom and gloom.  However it hasn't
 MK> replaced the regular doom and gloom so nothing to worry about if the
 MK> old doom and gloom wasn't working out for you.  Most people hate
 MK> change.

Nah! like a told a mate of mind earlier to-day, it is like getting a different 
flavour of coffee each day, mild decaf, yesterday, dark roast french press 
to-day, extra stong esspresso, the day after, and once in awhile an extra big 
cuppa genuine "Turkish coffee" or Greek if you prefer ... , same doom and 
gloom every day, just the "flavour" changes every once in awhile ...

 >> just not sure about a few things as it is a very long time since I
 >> did any kernel compiling ...

 MK> I'll have a looksee later and if you want could supply you with a
 MK> suitable config and/or a whole new kernel with all the trimmings.
 MK> I've been using 2.6.24.7 source lately with good success.  Haven't
 MK> worried about zipdisks though but I assume that stuff still works.  I
 MK> still have static IP numbers but they changed since the last time we
 MK> tried that. Any transfers between here and there will have to be
 MK> either ftp or ssh. I'll leave that up to you but ftp is fastest.  :-)

For Zip disks to work it seems that all that is required, is that ATAPI and 
removable floppy drive support be included in the kernal, at least for the IDE 
type I have, but the Ubuntu disk, picking it up as /dev/sda suggests that 
SCSI-EMULATION might also be a requirement, which is anyways needed for some 
IDE CD-ROM's/writers and DVD ROM's/Writers, have the source for 2.6.26.5 here, 
did a "dummy" compile on my Ubuntu box, which took all of 15-16 minutes ... , 
which is not bad, compared to the days when I was building kernels on a  8Meg 
386 ...

FTP is fine by me, no problems there ...

Just checked, and I still have the build scripts I got from you last time, but 
seem to have lost the part where you describe how you work the chroot build 
system ...

The Zip Drive, came with the "old" computer from work, they broke in, and 
stole the till, the LCD screen, and tried to take the computer and run before 
the armed response guys rocked up, but they neglected in their haste to loosen 
the cables on the computer box, so they got as far as the cables allowed, when 
it jerked to a sudden stop, and then hit the concrete floor rather hard. 
Insurance paid out for a new computer, but did not want the old one and it was 
standing in the way at work, so I "aquired" it, after some panel beating to 
the box, lots of glueing of the plastic bits, I have a computer box that needs 
a HDD (did not survive the fall) and I gave the memory stick to my Son, his 
box needed the extra RAM (was the same as what he had in his box) so his games 
could run "smoothly", well actually I want 2 HDD's for it, one to put WINXP on 
and when used, it will serve as a game server for the kids, and a second one, 
I can put Linux on, which it will run most of the time so I have a 
experimental system all of my own, i.e. like what I had going on the dual CPU 
board that a power surge killed. :-((((

While it was "bent" it seems, it had a minor short somewhere that caused it to 
not want to boot, as after bending the case almost "right" it started working 
normally again, and I cannot see any cracks/breakage on the board. Has a 3GHz 
P4 socket LGA755 CPU on their - VVBG - , not too shabby at all, DVD writer 
also works after making the casing "square" again, and glueing 2 of the 
plastic bits inside. Not nice having the place (work) broken into, but I do 
appreciate getting a decent computer box for free ...

Russell

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