A *huge* thanks to everyone who replied to my request regarding PPP.
My apologies for not checking back, but I've not been online for a while.
I finally got it sorted .. The advice was sound about pppconfig. I ran that
and it did all the configuration for me. Even probed the serial devices and
found my modem.
I'm now using my SMP box joyfully with BlackBox and a 2.4.18. Very happy.
About the 486's I gave up on X there. They *are* a waste of time by and
large, you guys were totally right. I now use the laptop with a null modem
cable as a physical firewall.
About Debian .. I am adding the finishing touches to an article that will
take even the most hardened newbie through the process of installing from
floppies (ideal if on 56k or less) through dist-upgrading to woody and
through installing Xfree and getting to a nice desktop with plenty of
'essentials'.
Just for the hell of it I've made an ISO that will do the lot for you (all
you need to do is run Xf86config and recompile the 2.4.18 kernel for your
hardware). Soon be up on my weeble along with my latest Ogg encoding
adventures and a decent'ish website.
Do you guys have a SSH setup going on incidentally? Anyone with a permanent
connection running a file repository and apache webserver? That would be
cool.
Anyway enough gas ..
Thanks again for the advice! Amazing response and all very helpful.
Lorc.
http://xunil.net/~lorcan/ - Like the Grolsch - we only let you have it when
its .. Uh. Anyway ...
lorcan@xunil.net
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nottingham@lists.lug.org.uk
[mailto:owner-nottingham@lists.lug.org.uk]On Behalf Of Andy Davidson
Sent: 15 June 2002 21:17
To: nottingham@lists.lug.org.uk
Subject: Re: [nottingham] Xinit Boxes
Replying to a mail sent almost a month ago...
On Wednesday 22 May 2002 13:19, Paul Sladen wrote:
> > I have been reviewing a Mako cluster from Xinit Systems. Overall I was
> > pretty inpressed with the unit but would be interested to hear from
> > others using them in a commercial setting, environment, what-have-you.
> I've never brought a cluster off them, but I did a rather natty and quite
> neat T-Shirt-in-a-soapbar that you chuck into water in a emergency and it
> springs out into a full (it not rather wet) item of clothing.
It's Xinit which have donated the hardware for the new lug.org.uk box, so if
you do buy anything from them, make sure you give the LUGs a mention. ;-)
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