Linux tales
Posted by
psp@x...
on 1999-08-10 08:21:58 UTC
Well, I finally got EMC up and running, with a lot of thanks to Tim
Goldstein and Matt Shaver for their pioneering work; I know it took much
less time than it would have without their generosity.
In retrospect, I had a lot of trouble with getting the right XServer for my
no-name graphics card; It finally started to work when I got the updated
Mach64 RPM from the red hat site. Also, I keep my linux system on a SCSI
drive (booting windows off my IDE) so all the references in lilo.conf to
/hda? get changed to /sda?.
As a (maybe interesting?) side note, because I am impossibly CHEAP, I never
bought the 5.2 RedHat CD, figuring that everything on the CD is available on
their website, and hundreds of other FTP sites. I am lucky to have a fast
ADSL line at home (needed for my wife's work), so it was practical to do an
FTP install of linux. You make two boot floppys using rawrite.exe with
boot.img and supp.img in DOS or Windows, as with a CDROM install. The boot
floppy takes you through the first stages of the linux setup, and after you
say you want to do an FTP install you use the supplemental floppy to
configure your network card.
Spent a few nights fiddling with my 3C509 NIC. I found hat if the NICwas
configured to "auto-recognize" the RJ45/BNC ethernet connection, it wouldn't
work; as soon as I specified "RJ45" in the 3C509 NIC setup utility, Linux
could then see the network. Once it could get out to the Internet it
connects to the mirror site you specify and it pulls down all the RPMs it
needs for the type of install you asked for (workstation or server). It was
way cool to watch this happen.
I finished the EMC install last night and haven't explored it much yet.
Using Matt's run scripts and ini it did seem to come alive. I will run a few
sample part files tonight to see what it does.
I don't have any back-end for it yet, so I'll doing only virtual milling
until I can get a mill. I just ran into a fellow that wants to sell his
Benchmaster mill. Anyone have any comments on this as a candidate for
conversion?
It's been fun. Thanks again, guys.
Phil Plumbo
Goldstein and Matt Shaver for their pioneering work; I know it took much
less time than it would have without their generosity.
In retrospect, I had a lot of trouble with getting the right XServer for my
no-name graphics card; It finally started to work when I got the updated
Mach64 RPM from the red hat site. Also, I keep my linux system on a SCSI
drive (booting windows off my IDE) so all the references in lilo.conf to
/hda? get changed to /sda?.
As a (maybe interesting?) side note, because I am impossibly CHEAP, I never
bought the 5.2 RedHat CD, figuring that everything on the CD is available on
their website, and hundreds of other FTP sites. I am lucky to have a fast
ADSL line at home (needed for my wife's work), so it was practical to do an
FTP install of linux. You make two boot floppys using rawrite.exe with
boot.img and supp.img in DOS or Windows, as with a CDROM install. The boot
floppy takes you through the first stages of the linux setup, and after you
say you want to do an FTP install you use the supplemental floppy to
configure your network card.
Spent a few nights fiddling with my 3C509 NIC. I found hat if the NICwas
configured to "auto-recognize" the RJ45/BNC ethernet connection, it wouldn't
work; as soon as I specified "RJ45" in the 3C509 NIC setup utility, Linux
could then see the network. Once it could get out to the Internet it
connects to the mirror site you specify and it pulls down all the RPMs it
needs for the type of install you asked for (workstation or server). It was
way cool to watch this happen.
I finished the EMC install last night and haven't explored it much yet.
Using Matt's run scripts and ini it did seem to come alive. I will run a few
sample part files tonight to see what it does.
I don't have any back-end for it yet, so I'll doing only virtual milling
until I can get a mill. I just ran into a fellow that wants to sell his
Benchmaster mill. Anyone have any comments on this as a candidate for
conversion?
It's been fun. Thanks again, guys.
Phil Plumbo