[huskerlug] Re: Changing keyboard layout in X

So far it hasn't dropped on the network, SUSE would kill over if I SCP files
to or from it, and after a few hits on the web server.

The system worked fine under Solaris 8 just the hard drive was small, so at
some point someone monkeyed with libraries and other parts to make space
before I inherited it. So after several days of trying to get SSH to compile
and/or trying binaries I gave up and figured I would need to re-install the
OS.  I wanted more space so I got two new drives for it and canned the drive
it came with. Then instead of trying to install Solaris 8 again and trying
to get ssh to work I decided to try something else on it.

First I tried FreeBSD, #1 the keyboard doesn't work total under their
Terminal install program...after finding what Ctrl+ could simulate the
arrows keys I tried to install it. Then it didn't have native drivers for
the SCSI controller, so a small battle ensued trying to get that to work so
it would load and see the hard drive... Long story I couldn't get it to
work, had part to do with I had new hard drives without a sun label.

Next SUSE 7.3, this installed fine after I learned about you need the sun
label then you can make your partitions.  But Networking would drop out,
most time if you rebooted it came back but other time you had to power off
completely before it came back.  It was really flaky SCP did it about every
time, FTP and the web would do it off and on.  I moved over 8G on to the
system using FTP, closed the connection thought about files I forgot
reopened and bam no network.  Other than SCP killing it 99% of the time the
rest seem to be random.

So now it's Aurora's turn :)

Now most people ask, Why? Yeah it's only an Ultra 1 and yes it's only 143Mhz
but it's 64bit... only you can't run it in 64bit mode since Ultra SPARC
below 200Mhz have a problem with bit rot under heavy loads... but it's got
512M RAM and two SCSI SCA bays... and the case looks cool too :-)


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Worrest" <jworrest@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <huskerlug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 11:05 AM
Subject: [huskerlug] Re: Changing keyboard layout in X


> I will be interested if it's the machine or the software that was giving
you
> problems.   ---Jim
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