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Re: New hard drive

From "Kerr Mudd-John" <admin@127.0.0.1>
Newsgroups alt.folklore.computers
Subject Re: New hard drive
Date 2015-09-17 10:29 +0100
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On Tue, 15 Sep 2015 19:12:40 +0100, philo <philo@privacy.net> wrote:

> On 09/15/2015 06:43 AM, Morten Reistad wrote:
>
>
> <snipped but read>
>
>>
>> I did the kernel build with -Os and explicit options to build for
>> the processor in use. It made a difference in speed. The processor
>> was an 80386 with so high clock speed and cache memory (ISTR 8m
>> cache, 16m real memory; we took all the cache chips from 8 motherboards
>> that were being recycled).
>>
>>> Since RH5.2 did not have USB support, I compiled a USB kernel.
>>> Unfortunately I never did get USB going. I found out many years later
>>> that I might have needed to add a module (?) for the particular USB  
>>> card
>>> I added to the machine. Compiling a new kernel was still a good
>>> excercise to have done.
>>
>> USB drivers seem to have been an exception from the rule above.
>> Likewise, the fast ethernet (>= 1G) drivers seem to be seamlessly
>> integrated into Linux.
>>
>> -- mrr
>>
>>
>
>
> One more thing I recall.
>
> After spending the whole day getting the x-server going...
>
> I decided to try a small distribution that installed from something like  
> 7 floppies...called Monkey Linux.
>
>
> No problem installing it and just for laughs, when I got to the command  
> line I entered "startx" and was shocked when the system configured  
> itself and ran a GUI...
>
> Could not figure out why full distributions did not...by default...at  
> least boot to some minimal GUI if so requested.

Took some rummaging with quite a few deadends, but it's here
http://ftp.pslib.cz/pub/monkey/docs/english.htm
(Monkey Linux version 6; last update 1997!)

-- 
Bah, and indeed, Humbug

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New hard drive philo <philo@privacy.net> - 2015-09-10 20:33 -0500
  Re: New hard drive Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-09-10 23:23 -0400
    Re: New hard drive Bob Martin <bob.martin@excite.com> - 2015-09-11 07:07 +0100
    Re: New hard drive philo <philo@privacy.net> - 2015-09-14 10:20 -0500
      Re: New hard drive Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-09-14 13:53 -0400
        Re: New hard drive philo <philo@privacy.net> - 2015-09-14 13:05 -0500
          Re: New hard drive Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-09-14 15:09 -0400
            Re: New hard drive philo <philo@privacy.net> - 2015-09-14 14:18 -0500
      Re: New hard drive Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2015-09-15 10:08 +0100
        Re: New hard drive philo <philo@privacy.net> - 2015-09-15 05:28 -0500
          Re: New hard drive Morten Reistad <first@last.name> - 2015-09-15 13:43 +0200
            Re: New hard drive Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2015-09-15 16:19 +0000
              Re: New hard drive philo <philo@privacy.net> - 2015-09-15 13:15 -0500
                Re: New hard drive Stan Barr <plan.b@bluesomatic.org> - 2015-09-16 07:04 +0000
                Re: New hard drive philo <philo@privacy.net> - 2015-09-16 08:39 -0500
                Re: New hard drive Joe Makowiec <makowiec@invalid.invalid> - 2015-09-16 14:52 +0000
                Re: New hard drive philo <philo@privacy.net> - 2015-09-17 15:37 -0500
                Re: New hard drive scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2015-09-16 13:42 +0000
              Re: New hard drive Walter Banks <walter@bytecraft.com> - 2015-09-15 15:34 -0400
                Re: New hard drive Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2015-09-15 17:29 -0400
                Re: New hard drive Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2015-09-16 22:00 +0000
                Re: New hard drive Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2015-09-17 03:58 +0000
                Re: New hard drive "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2015-09-17 00:43 -0500
                Re: New hard drive Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2015-09-17 05:59 +0000
                Re: New hard drive Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2015-09-17 11:51 +0000
                Re: New hard drive hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2015-09-17 13:18 -0700
                Re: New hard drive Walter Banks <walter@bytecraft.com> - 2015-09-17 19:15 -0400
                Re: New hard drive "Jim Thomas" <JT@nospam.com> - 2015-09-20 17:27 +1000
                Re: New hard drive hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2015-09-17 13:13 -0700
                Re: New hard drive Walter Banks <walter@bytecraft.com> - 2015-09-17 06:24 -0400
                Re: New hard drive Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2015-09-17 11:51 +0000
                Re: New hard drive Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2015-09-17 18:02 +0000
            Re: New hard drive philo <philo@privacy.net> - 2015-09-15 13:12 -0500
              Re: New hard drive Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2015-09-16 22:00 +0000
                Re: New hard drive philo <philo@privacy.net> - 2015-09-17 19:29 -0500
              Re: New hard drive "Kerr Mudd-John" <admin@127.0.0.1> - 2015-09-17 10:29 +0100
                Re: New hard drive philo <philo@privacy.net> - 2015-09-17 19:31 -0500
        Re: New hard drive Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2015-09-15 16:19 +0000
          Re: New hard drive Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2015-09-15 17:48 +0000
          Re: New hard drive philo <philo@privacy.net> - 2015-09-15 13:17 -0500
  Re: New hard drive "Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2015-09-11 09:28 -0500
    Re: New hard drive scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2015-09-11 14:59 +0000
      Re: New hard drive Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2015-09-11 11:32 -0400
        Re: New hard drive Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-09-11 16:06 +0000
        Re: New hard drive scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2015-09-11 16:06 +0000
          Re: New hard drive "Jim Thomas" <JT@nospam.com> - 2015-09-12 05:21 +1000
        Re: New hard drive "Jim Thomas" <JT@nospam.com> - 2015-09-12 05:16 +1000
      Re: New hard drive "Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2015-09-11 10:42 -0500
        Re: New hard drive scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2015-09-11 16:09 +0000
          Re: New hard drive Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2015-09-11 12:20 -0400
        Re: New hard drive "Jim Thomas" <JT@nospam.com> - 2015-09-12 05:18 +1000
      Re: New hard drive "Jim Thomas" <JT@nospam.com> - 2015-09-12 05:08 +1000
    Re: New hard drive "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2015-09-11 14:34 -0500
      Re: New hard drive philo <philo@privacy.net> - 2015-09-15 05:29 -0500
    Re: New hard drive terry+googleblog@tmk.com - 2015-09-11 16:05 -0700
  Re: New hard drive Walter Banks <walter@bytecraft.com> - 2015-09-11 11:55 -0400
    Re: New hard drive Shadow <Sh@dow.br> - 2015-09-11 14:42 -0300
      Re: New hard drive Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-09-11 16:10 -0400
        Re: New hard drive Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2015-09-11 15:07 -0700
          Re: New hard drive sidd@situ.com (sidd) - 2015-09-12 15:34 -0400
            Re: New hard drive Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2015-09-12 12:56 -0700
              Re: New hard drive Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2015-09-12 13:02 -0700
    Re: New hard drive "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2015-09-11 14:39 -0500
      Re: New hard drive philo <philo@privacy.net> - 2015-09-14 10:25 -0500
    Re: New hard drive philo <philo@privacy.net> - 2015-09-14 10:22 -0500
      Re: New hard drive Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-09-14 13:49 -0400
        Re: New hard drive philo <philo@privacy.net> - 2015-09-14 13:07 -0500
  Re: New hard drive hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2015-09-14 11:10 -0700
    Re: New hard drive philo <philo@privacy.net> - 2015-09-14 14:45 -0500

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