David McWherter (dtm@vramp.net)
Wed, 7 Apr 1999 13:56:19 -0400 (EDT)
It seems that the problem is that we never archived the FTP
area on our old system and restored it on the new Linux
setup. Over the next day or so I'll be moving to get things
back up.
-David
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David T. McWherter dtm@waterw.com
On Tue, 6 Apr 1999, Dave Beck wrote:
> So, we just moved hellfire.dusers.drexel.edu from AIX to LinuxPPC last weekend
> (with our new installer). This may be part of the problem you are having
> accessing the hellfire sources and what not. Dave McWherter just finished his
> lcd driver and is integrating that into the linux source tree. We are also
> working on resolution switching for X, but that is a tad more difficult.
>
> Quoting Darron Froese (darron@calgary.westworld.ca):
> > > I'm trying to access the latest patched kernel source tree from hellfire
> > > but everything appears to have disappeared (is that an oxymoron??) from
> > > the ftp site. I know you guys were supposed to be getting a network pipe
> > > upgrade from scanning the mailing list archives - did the disks with the
> > > ftp stuff on them go offline because of that?
> >
> > Kevin,
> >
> > If it's the kernel source that you want, I've got most of it mirrored here:
> >
> > ftp://ans.odi.ca//pub/archives/linux/kernel/ans-specific/
> > ftp://ans.odi.ca//pub/archives/linux/kernel/source/linux-2.2.4.ans.tgz
> > ftp://ans.odi.ca//pub/archives/linux/kernel/source/linux-pmac-2.2.1.ans.tgz
> >
> > > Also, can anyone point me in the right direction for information or source
> > > code for an installer? It seems all the right pieces and patches are
> > > there to get the ANS to boot the way it should, if only there was an
> > > installer that incorparated those patches and the latest kernel. I'm
> > > basically too lazy to go through the whole ANS install process, especially
> > > if its just a matter of compiling a new installer or patching an old one.
> > > Of course, I guess if it was that easy, someone would have done it (but
> > > then again, who knows how many people actually have these beasts - someone
> > > GAVE me mine :)
> >
> > I don't think that the new installer is ready/working/etc yet - only the
> > guys that are working on it know. I do know though, that the installation
> > procedure at Demonsys works fine. It's at:
> >
> > http://www.demonsys.com/ans/
> >
> > --
> > Darron
> > darron@calgary.westworld.ca - WestWorld Computers
> > <http://i.am/darron/>
>
> --
> Dave Beck
> dave@arginine.umdnj.edu Sites of interest (set 3):
> Computer Science and Biology http://selene.biochem.uga.edu/tutorial/
> Drexel University, Philadelphia PA http://www.cold.org/
>
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