Dear folks, Finally picked up a 16MB CompactFlash card, so that I could do some additional testing. I set up the CF card on an CF-to-IDE adaptor, installed...
Anthony J. Albert
albert@...
Aug 1, 2002 3:03 pm
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Hello Anthony - ... I was pleasantly surprised to find that you have this for a legacy `386 machine! :-) I am very interested in what you are doing with this....
Ghost in the Machine
cangelich@...
Aug 1, 2002 4:25 pm
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... Sure. I've mentioned it on-list before, but the CF-to-IDE adaptor I have is one that I purchased a year or two ago from: ...
Anthony J. Albert
albert@...
Aug 1, 2002 5:52 pm
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Hello Anthony - ... [...] ... [...] ... Yes, sounds fun too. :-) [...] ... Was thinking it would be handy as an emergency backup system. Life can be unpleasant...
Ghost in the Machine
cangelich@...
Aug 1, 2002 6:29 pm
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... I'm hoping to order the $20 3.5" form-factor CF-IDE adapter jamtat pointed me to a couple of months ago ...
Bob George
mailings01@...
Aug 1, 2002 7:36 pm
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A couple of days ago, I got another request for LILO from a BasicLinux user, so I've prepared a simple version. Any of you guys interested in trying it? ...
Steven C. Darnold
ichi@...
Aug 1, 2002 7:42 pm
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There is an ArizonaBBS list on yahoogroups. It's been mostly dormant for months, but there's been a spike in traffic lately, and it looks like there are quite...
Bob George
mailings01@...
Aug 1, 2002 10:01 pm
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Hello Steven - ... If I'm remembering this corectly LILO is to multiboot to various partitions and OS? I remember there is also LOADLIN and I get them...
Ghost in the Machine
cangelich@...
Aug 2, 2002 1:40 am
17663
... LILO and loadlin.exe perform similar functions. Loadlin.exe needs DOS, LILO doesn't. ... MBR --> DOS --> loadlin.exe --> Linux MBR --> LILO --> Linux...
Steven C. Darnold
ichi@...
Aug 2, 2002 6:25 am
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Anthony Found your posting very interesting. I want to try some of this out. You know just for grins and giggles! I was wondering if QNX would work on CF for...
Chester Rundel
ctn87563@...
Aug 2, 2002 1:35 pm
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As I threatened already to take up this thread... here comes a first one, which touches two salient points: viability of non-M$ OSs and applications, and free...
Heimo Claasen
revobild@...
Aug 2, 2002 1:41 pm
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... Yep, DOS and Windows had no problem with it - as far as they are concerned, it's just a really fast IDE drive. I suspect, though, that the drive manager...
Anthony J. Albert
albert@...
Aug 2, 2002 1:51 pm
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... Don't see why not, if it'll run from a hard drive. I think I've even seen some embedded applications that use QNX in just this way, too. I've never used...
Anthony J. Albert
albert@...
Aug 2, 2002 2:39 pm
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... Not a problem yet, but today I see 128MB CF for $35US. A nice problem to have I suppose. ... They're mostly a California chain, but through their deal with...
Bob George
mailings01@...
Aug 2, 2002 3:09 pm
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... As Anthony mentioned, anything should work that will work on an IDE drive. But if you mean the QNX demo diskette, I'm not sure if/how it'll convert. QNX...
Bob George
mailings01@...
Aug 2, 2002 3:40 pm
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... A valid comment re: Linux (IMO). I'm following (and trying) the OpenOffice suite, and it IS a nice package. Sun certainly seems committed to supporting it....
Bob George
mailings01@...
Aug 2, 2002 4:00 pm
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Bob: I have sent a request to Don for his list of applications, and, requested permission to post to the discussion list too. John Oram ... To unsubscribe from...
John Oram
norami@...
Aug 2, 2002 4:55 pm
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Hello Steven - ... Again, if I am remembering this correctly didn't you say at one time that you had avoided LILO because some people had had difficulties when...
Ghost in the Machine
cangelich@...
Aug 2, 2002 5:58 pm
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... Using loadlin.exe is much easier than using LILO. BasicLinux still uses loadlin.exe by default and there are no plans to change that. However, loadlin.exe...
Steven C. Darnold
ichi@...
Aug 2, 2002 8:14 pm
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... The bas2hd installation takes just 5mb of space. It will fit comfortably on an 8mb CompactFlash. Cheers, Steven ______________________________ ...
Steven C. Darnold
ichi@...
Aug 2, 2002 8:14 pm
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For anyone using procmail with formail for filtering email (normally *nix), I've written a rule that seems to handle the broken Date: fields we've been seeing....
Bob George
mailings01@...
Aug 2, 2002 10:45 pm
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... Sure, Bob, I mailed that guy immediately. (So I suppose that list will arrive, and sure I'll forward it to the list.) Worse even, I told him that I had...
Heimo Claasen
revobild@...
Aug 3, 2002 12:39 am
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Chester - those PCMCIA-adapters for CF-cards were so-to-say the first "natural" devices to use those cards, and you find them cheap ( <15 USD). But: To use the...
Heimo Claasen
revobild@...
Aug 3, 2002 12:39 am
17678
... How about Windows CE? I think CE was designed for this sort of system. BasicLinux should be interesting, too. I'm guessing that you could have the hard...
Kenneth Alan Boyd Ram...
cx555@...
Aug 3, 2002 2:09 am
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Boyd - what's "[to] _Ghost_ it [the HD C:] to the CF drive as D:" ? Never heard of something the like - howto ? // Heimo Claasen // <hammer at revobild dot...
Heimo Claasen
revobild@...
Aug 3, 2002 1:03 pm
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... Sure, I'll give it a go... FWIW, I always liked Slackware's installation routine when it came to installing LILO, made it pretty painless IIRC. Regards, ...
Ben A L Jemmett
ben.jemmett@...
Aug 3, 2002 6:04 pm
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Dear "Surv-surfers": Hope this isn't cross-list, but I find that quite often my video card, even tho' it is an PCI one, is detected by Arachne setup as a...
Thomas Tabler
xtj4sr@...
Aug 3, 2002 6:37 pm
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Dear Steven: It's not that I don't want a dos partition on my machine, but the issue of what kind and how BIG. With Red Hat, after install it is easy to setup...
Thomas Tabler
xtj4sr@...
Aug 3, 2002 6:37 pm
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Bob - got that list immediately but as "List attached (in Word 2000 or OpenOffice supported format)", and all the URL tags vanish when I try to have it run...
Heimo Claasen
revobild@...
Aug 3, 2002 9:11 pm
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... Thomas, if I read this correctly, you're looking for a light instant messaging (IM) client that will let you talk to Yahoo! Messenger from Linux, correct?...
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