Older cptrs

[JJ Neff]

In that situation running in single user  or failsafe (failsafe defaults to
init1 , then 3 if it can and then 5 if it can, if the monitor cant handle what
the adapter is pushing though you may go to 5 and blow the monitor) get to your
/etc/inittab and change default runlevel from 5 to 3.  Then when at a console,
you can run XFdrake under console and still get a (DOS looking) menu of choices
for screen, monitor, refresh etc etc then test it from there.  Once its good ,
a simple "telinit 5"  puts you right back at kdm login!  dont give up on
Mandrake that easily, I really learned to appreciate some of it's " quirks" 
doing no less than 5 installs this last few weeks, 3 from FTP, 2 from CD.  then
the upgrades, Kernel upgrades, etc etc.  I only just got NIS and autofs running
on the server (using export/home and mapping /home on the server just like a
client as suggested previously).  I am experimenting with passing the
auto.master and auto.home files over NIS.  We'll see how it works by the
meeting.

I spent the last 2 weeks rebuilding 3 machines and trying to recover those lost
hard drives, learned a lot about recovery, running in rescue mode (chroot /mnt)
and using VI, (Bob you're right VI is a MUST when doing recovery of systems). 
I'm also using md0, 1, 2 for /, /usr/ export/home.  Kinda cool running Raid1. 
Was actually pretty easy once I understood the diskdrake setup sequece...

I have my old box that I will build at the meeting or before if I have the
time, I am going to try to download and install the 8.2 BETA 4 if I get a
chance.

JJN
--- "Gregory J. Neumann" <gjn at certainlywood.com> wrote:
> Hi, JJ!
> 
> GREAT Idea!
> I have some old ISA & VLB VGA cards, but don't expect to run X very well. 
> Are the 
> boards are ISA or >GASP!< VLB??  Some DEC Etherworks3 ISA NICs ... not much
> other 
> hardware.  Maybe some 4 Meg 72 pin SIMMs ... LOTS of 30 pin 1 Meg SIMMs! 
> (Remember 
> them??)  Maybe a 40 MEG HD, but nothing larger, and only 5.25" floppy drives,
> not 
> very helpful in that department.  :-(  I'll bring the 10baseT hub again.
> 
> BTW, speaking of old hardware ... I found a "gotcha" in the Mandrake 8.1
> install 
> ... The DEFAULT monitor is a High Frequency Super VGA monitor, well, that's
> NOT 
> what I have, and because it's Xwindows, you CAN'T easily change it if you
> blindly 
> accept it!  The default video mode drives older SVGA monitors berserk and may
> very 
> well blow them out!  I'm not impressed w/ an install that can seriously do
> damage 
> to hardware just by accepting the default.  Good thing I was working on the
> other 
> computer (which also has an incompatable monitor!) while my daugher was
> running the 
> install and rescued things before any damage was done.  A rank newbie would
> just be 
> appalled and confused and SOL if the monitor blew.  I tried to fix things
> using 
> xf86config, but Mandrake blissfully ignored any changes I tried to make!  
> Just one 
> of the "hazards" of installing the newer distros on older hardware I guess. 
> It's 
> back to good ol' reliable :-D Slackware! :-D for my daughter and me!  By the
> time 
> she shows up for the next meeting, she'll be a "Slackware Babe"! ;-)
> 
> -Greg
> 
> > I have two smaller tower cases that have MB and ~P75 chips and a little
> memory, they
> > have video (1 does) and I can slap on some ISA nics.  THey need floppy
> drives and
> > hard drives.
> > 
> > I will brig them Sunday and donate them to teh group for people the use and
> > practive on.  If anyone has strange hardware or old hard drives they can
> doante
> > bring them along, sound cards old speakers etc will also be welcome...
> > 
> > 
> > JJN
> > 
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