From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (cthulhu.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.2]) by neteng.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id CAA98310 for ; Wed, 24 Feb 1999 02:12:54 -0800 (PST) Return-Path: Received: (from majordomo-owner@localhost) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) id CAA11316 for linux-list; Wed, 24 Feb 1999 02:12:09 -0800 (PST) mail_from (owner-linux@relay.engr.sgi.com) Received: from sgi.com (sgi.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.37]) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id CAA47879 for ; Wed, 24 Feb 1999 02:12:07 -0800 (PST) mail_from (gkm@total.net) Received: from bretweir.total.net (bretweir.total.net [205.236.175.106]) by sgi.com (980327.SGI.8.8.8-aspam/980304.SGI-aspam: SGI does not authorize the use of its proprietary systems or networks for unsolicited or bulk email from the Internet.) via ESMTP id CAA04037 for ; Wed, 24 Feb 1999 02:12:06 -0800 (PST) mail_from (gkm@total.net) From: gkm@total.net Received: from total.net (local-182.montreal.mpact.net [204.19.168.182]) by bretweir.total.net (8.9.1/8.8.5) with ESMTP id FAA26317 for ; Wed, 24 Feb 1999 05:11:50 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199902241011.FAA26317@bretweir.total.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 To: linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Subject: A few(bunch? :) of questions. Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 05:12:04 -0500 Sender: owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Precedence: bulk I've managed to grab myself a Challenge-S and have been playing with it and Linux. I've gotten hardhat installed by grabbing the latest kernel image from the test directory. Everything is running nice, but now that it's alive, I have a few questions. First, has the swap problem been worked out of the latest kernels? (be hard to put the beast to work with no swap) My console doesn't work, the log shows lots of getty HANGUP signals and then init stopping the process. I'd like to compile a kernel that's configured for what I'm running(no hanging around waiting for Bootp to time out and such) Where can I get the latest kernel source? (base 2.2.1 blows up impressivly when trying to compile :) Related to the above: How do I get support for the second ethernet and all the other SCSI adapters? Is there anyway I can dump the Irix drive? As it is now, the 1 Gig drive is used to hold vmlinux, that's it. Is milo something that works? I've managed to get Vnc working on the unit, so I can so virtual X stuff, very cool and fun. (wasn't a bad compile, just a few things to adjust) I think that covers it for now, the Challenge is a fun toy, and under unixbench comes out close to my P120 Laptop. (I can post the results if anyone's interested) Greg