Update on my system. I have Gentus Linux 2.6 up and running on 'rodney' at last. The 675Mb download took over my only link to the outside world for about 30 hours but Windows IE5 and Gozilla managed it without any hitches, except I had the download manager set to redial to a 1p per minute number instead of my 0800 access so I've got to stump up for 11 hours of it at 1p/min. :-( Gentus found my ATA66 controller and promptly kernel panicked, bugger. After much jiggling about with drives, my 17Gb ATA66 Maxtor positively will not reside on the same channel as my 40Gb ATA66 Maxtor, strange. Anyway configuration is now as follows you'll see why its a little awkward: UDMA33 channels IDE0 AOpen 10X DVD IDE1 HP 24X4X4 re-writer IDE3 LS120 IDE4 250Mb Zip ATA66 chanels IDE5 Maxtor 17Gb ATA66 (Win 98 boot) IDE6 IBM 37.5Gb ATA66 (MP3s etc.) :-) IDE7 Maxtor 40Gb ATA66 (More MP3's etc.) IDE8 Segate 6Gb UDMA33 (Linux) hdh1 25Mb </boot> hdh2 [Linux extended] hdh5 128Mb <swap> hdh6 5846Mb </> All this dangling of a 250W power supply! We have removed our central heating system because the power supply glowing is plenty to heat the whole neighbourhood. Gentus seems to be RH6.2 optimised for Abit motherboards no extra goodies unlike Mandrake. But it works so now all I need is some SCSI storage to complete my project. :-) Now the problem I have is the dreaded LI at the lilo prompt. Lilo resides in the MBR of the windows boot drive. Apart from the obvious linear option has anyone got any ideas because I'm fed up with booting from a floppy. Cheers, BJ
Nothing to do with your last message, but please can you tell me how I can unsubscribe from alug? Nothing I tried so far seems to work. Thanks. ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Woodard" <john@woodard.freeserve.co.uk> To: "ALUG" <alug@stu.uea.ac.uk> Sent: Sunday, July 09, 2000 7:49 AM Subject: [Alug] Gentus/downloads and update on 'rodney'
Update on my system. I have Gentus Linux 2.6 up and running on 'rodney' at last. The 675Mb download took over my only link to the outside world for about 30 hours but Windows IE5 and Gozilla managed it without any hitches, except I had the download manager set to redial to a 1p per minute number instead of my 0800 access so I've got to stump up for 11 hours of it at 1p/min. :-(
Gentus found my ATA66 controller and promptly kernel panicked, bugger. After much jiggling about with drives, my 17Gb ATA66 Maxtor positively will not reside on the same channel as my 40Gb ATA66 Maxtor, strange. Anyway configuration is now as follows you'll see why its a little awkward:
UDMA33 channels IDE0 AOpen 10X DVD IDE1 HP 24X4X4 re-writer IDE3 LS120 IDE4 250Mb Zip
ATA66 chanels IDE5 Maxtor 17Gb ATA66 (Win 98 boot) IDE6 IBM 37.5Gb ATA66 (MP3s etc.) :-) IDE7 Maxtor 40Gb ATA66 (More MP3's etc.) IDE8 Segate 6Gb UDMA33 (Linux) hdh1 25Mb </boot> hdh2 [Linux extended] hdh5 128Mb <swap> hdh6 5846Mb </>
All this dangling of a 250W power supply! We have removed our central heating system because the power supply glowing is plenty to heat the whole neighbourhood.
Gentus seems to be RH6.2 optimised for Abit motherboards no extra goodies unlike Mandrake. But it works so now all I need is some SCSI storage to complete my project. :-)
Now the problem I have is the dreaded LI at the lilo prompt. Lilo resides in the MBR of the windows boot drive. Apart from the obvious linear option has anyone got any ideas because I'm fed up with booting from a floppy.
Cheers, BJ
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