Dave Beck (dave@arginine.umdnj.edu)
Wed, 7 Apr 1999 14:00:01 -0400
Actually we did, but the AIX tar isn't extracting correctly
of the tape.
Quoting David McWherter (dtm@vramp.net):
> 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
>
> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
> 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/
> >
-- Dave Beck dave@arginine.umdnj.edu Sites of interest (set 4): Computer Science and Biology http://www.santafe.edu/projects/swarm/ Drexel University, Philadelphia PA http://www.drexel.edu/
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