[huskerlug] Re: Changing keyboard layout in X

        Probably NETBSD might have been your next choice, but as long as
you get something to work the way you want, that's the main thing. 
Oh, something other than M$!   I'm somewhat surprised that FreeBSD 
didn't work either. BSDs seem to be highly server orientated.  Oh 
which version of FreeBSD did you try 4.8 or 5.x?
        Anyway, let's hear if your system gives you any nasty surprises in
the future.


On Tuesday 24 June 2003 12:29, you wrote:
> 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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