Re: Help for a Lame Linux user.........(OT from CT)

Saskia Bormann <saskia.bormann.KEIN.ROASTBEEF@xxxxxxxx> wrote in
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> So it's a real PS/2 Linux distro, or just an install + some
> changes?

We basically dumped everything out of the build that wasn't relevant
to MCA. I'm not a Linux geek, but I think my programmer approached
it by building all the MCA adapter support directly into the kernel
(?) vs using modules. Even included some patches for specific high
end adapters (token-ring) that were not generally yet then included.

> I'm also working on one - Slack 7.1 based.

It will be much newer than what I have. I am following what Tony is
doing with his ultra-shrunk kernel. I think a lot of the 386
machines would benefit from this.

>> About the monitor / video. The first time "startx" is called, a
>> script runs to check for the presence of XF86Config, then if not,
>> it runs a program / script we wrote especially for PS/2
>> computers.

> Nice! Have you (who is "we"?) written other PS/2 tools? Would you
> send them to me by mail? ;o)

I've sponsored some other utilities that I think are way cool for
configuring PS/2s easily, and I'd like to see some programmer carry
them further.

One is "System Partition Copy" (SPCopy). It automates the tiresome
process of wiping / deleting / creating system partitions for systems
that use standard (non-raid) IBM controllers.

SPCopy lets you plug in multiple SCSI adapters into one machine and
attach up to 54 drives, and it will wipe them all and install a
single system partition to all of them in a single boot up.

Our own Tim Clarke wrote it. One of the attached drives acts as the
"source" for all the targets.

I'd like to have one change made to it that would make it
significantly more useful, and that would be the ability to store
multiple system images, ideally for all PS/2 machines, on one source
drive, and then generate whatever you wanted without ever having to
change the source disk.

Right now you could have it replicate a Type 1, 2, 3, or 4 to any
number of other drives, but only if you had four "source" drives in
the system.

So if Tim or Bob Eager or Alfred or any other of our hot-rod
programmers wants to take this on, I'd really be glad to finish it
up.

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