[TriLUG] meeting tonight

acoliver acoliver at nc.rr.com
Thu Oct 11 09:34:24 EDT 2001


Thanks, you can never have enough backups.  I'll probably try my PC first
since everything is already there and ready.  I'll see if I can get 2.4.12
apparently 2.4.11 is so defective that linux has "Renamed it away".

-Andy

>On Thu, 11 Oct 2001 08:14:47 -0400 (EDT) rpjday <rpjday at mindspring.com>
wrote.
>On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, acoliver wrote:
>
>> Hey all,
>>
>> I was up till 1:00 trying to get a kernel build on Jon's laptop.  Wasn't
>> having any trouble other than there is nooooo way to demo that in an hour
>> and a half (it took about that long to run make dep).  I tried it on my
>> laptop (which has a defunct keyboard), but RH 7.1's kernel didn't like
its
>> pci or pcmcia bus (wasn't clear to me which it was complaining about). 
I'd
>> have installed a different kernel but I'd have to have at least network
>> access to do that now wouldn't I?
>
>i have a new (empty) dell inspiron 8100 you're welcome to use for
>the demo if you want.  512M ram, 1ghz cpu -- that should build
>plenty fast.  but i'd need the latest roswell cds to make sure i
>get support for the nvidia card, to make sure X works.
>
>i'll be bringing it anyway, so you can decide tonight, unless
>you already have things set up on another box.
>
>rday
>
>-- 
>Robert P. J. Day
>Eno River Technologies, Durham NC
>Unix, Linux and Open Source training
>
>
>Microsoft:  Committed to putting the "backward" into "backward
compatibility."
>




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