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["Ron Clarke" <ariadne AT acepia.net.au>]

Hi Steven,

On Mon, 28 Apr 2003 22:28:09 +1000, qwms-avib AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> X does put quite a burden on a 486-33, especially
> if there is only 8mb RAM.  How much RAM do you have
> on that machine?

      16 MB

>  If you have more than 8mb, it would
> be worth trying links2.  It will probably be sluggish,
> but it might be useable (even though the gauge fills
> for much of the time).

   I intend to get that this morning, and see how it goes.


> You *definitely* shouldn't be running e2fsck (the checker
> for ext2 filesystems) on a DOS partition.  I'm guessing
> that this is happening because you have /dev/hda1 in your
> /etc/fstab.  Please send a copy of the entire fstab file
> and I will try to sort out where the problem is occuring.

  Good guess !

fstab:

/dev/hda1     /        ext2    defaults   1   1
none          /proc    proc    defaults   0   0


   When I # out the first line, I go straight to the normal BL login....
at first.   Then, I find that "root" is not recognised, and I couldn't
login at all !   I had to boot the RAM version and re-edit it back the
way it was before I could log in (having gone through the same routine
as before).

   Interestingly, (after I have mounted my C DOS drive to /c) when I 
enter df, both my hard disks show up as

/dev/hda1      118194   32221   79870  29 %  /
/dev/hda1      515792  133880  381912  26 %  /c

  I don't think that should be like that.

  But I got mc installed and running.  This is getting to be a lot of
fun.     :)

Regards,
        Ron


Ron Clarke
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Beat you ;).  We have at least 40 video cards (counting what is in
computers) plus three computers with onboard video.  We recycled anything
with less than 1M RAM.  A few newer ones (PCI) are VESA 1.2 compliant. 
What year did they start with VESA 2? People don't usually give us
anything less than six years old.  If anyone needs a video card,
controller card (including one for hard drives over 504M), sound card, 4M
SIMMs, etc., let us know - yours for the cost of postage.  We are known as
recyclers so things appear mysteriously on the porch. 

I get the impression that most Linux distributions (other than Slackware
and maybe Debian) are aimed only at people with fairly new computers who
don't want to understand things enough to make decisions. 

Even Caldera 2.x and Redhat 6.x (same age as Slackware 7) by default start
so many things running that, even though they could eventually be made to
work on a 486, you have to remove most of what they put on so that they
will load and run in real time.  Do people really need a random number
generator?  Can't they give you a choice about KDE in the 'minimum'
installation?


On Tue, 29 Apr 2003 qwms-avib AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> JP Piers ( drinou ) wrote:
> > 
> > for minix-1.1.tgz your video card must be vesa 2 complient ...
> 
> That's unfortunate.  I have 14 video cards and *none* of 
> them are VESA 2.  No framebuffer for me.
> 
> Cheers,
> Steven
> 
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