Nikos Mouat (nikm@cyberflunk.com)
Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:32:52 -0800 (PST)
Well, my ANS is doing very well.. it's running in production being a mail
server for several domains, a DNS server for a dozen or so domains, and
running an SMB authenticated squid web cache for a hand full of users..
it's been quite stable with a few strange isolated problems mostly related
to development (gcc not failing on missing symbols, occasional porting
problems, etc) and would probably have been online since I installed it if
I wasn't always installing the latest greatest kernels off of vger. I
haven't had any crashes, and there's only two problems that I have with
it:
- the console doesn't work anymore (some kind of frame buffer problem)
- TCP oddities with non-listening ports
but neither of these prevent it from doing what it needs to do..
Your old instructions worked pretty well for me, the key part being
leaving the system unplugged and the battery out over night.. and the
dusers installers never worked for me (I used the dodds.net installer I
think)
I did have _ALOT_ of installation problems that were very verbosely
documented here (is there an archive anywhere??) but that is all well
behind me now.
nm
On Fri, 4 Dec 1998, terrac wrote:
> So those are still the standing instructions.. darn I thought we had
> gotten farther than that.
> I wish I new more about linux to know how to build an instller.coff and
> stuff.
> One thing that bugs me is that I still don't know what kernal we are
> supposed to be booting off. can someone please find a installer.coff that
> works (internal SCSI and enet) and name it ans.coff or something so we
> know the diff. too many files with the same name = bad karma IMHO.
> All it comes down to is this. Some people have their ANS's up with linux
> ppc.. and most of us don't. We should see what they have done, and try to
> replicate it ourselves.. we are just missing a common step.
> ALSO.. there is a distributor out there selling thses damn things with
> linuxPPC on them.. what are they doing to get it on there? I WANNA KNOW!!!
> argh.. thats my mountian dew induced rant for the month!
>
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