Re: Elks freeze after login [machine config]

[Harry Kalogirou <harkal@gmx.net>]

Την Παρ, 02-08-2002 στις 09:07, ο/η Christophe Gimenez έγραψε:

> 
> Hello Riley,
> 
> I'm using the disk images downloaded from sf and seems to be the 0.1.0
> version.
> This compaq has :
> - a 20286
> - a 20287 (but I'm not sure, I've not used this computer since 1991), I will
> test for it
> - 1,6 MB of ram
> - a 40 MB IDE disk
> - two serial ports
> 
> The two serial ports are detected at boot time as
> ttys0 at 0x3F8 (irq = 4) with 16450
> ttys1 at 0x2F8 (irq = 3) with 16450
> 
> and lp0 at 0x3BC

ELKS will run like the wind on it...

> I've been able to fdisk and mkfs (but not mount due to my lack of knowledge
> of mount parameters, the simple mount /dev/bda1 /mnt provided in the faq
> doesn't work).
> Just for information : I must say I've not been able to run minix 2.0.3 on
> it. I had problems with mkswap or something like that and switched to elks
> that seems more fun to explore.
> 
> I'm really interested on having tcpip services working because I would like
> to use a null modem wire (with pppd when it will be available if not
> allready done) to transfer compiled files from my linux gateway to the 286
> instead of having to write floppy, unmount, mount, launch and so on...
> 

Actualy you will use CSLIP... PPP is not an option on ELKS yet. CSLIP is
will give you everything you need.

My machine for ELKS is a :

8086 
640KB RAM
40MB hard disk
1 serial port, 1 parallel
a PS/2 port

I am running ELKS 0.1.1-pre$ (the latest from the CVS) on it. It is
connected with a null modem serial cable to my linux based gateway using
CSLIP at 9600bps. The root partition is around 30MB and I also have an
1MB swap partition. I'm also running on it constanly a web server(for
the fun of it, since with swap we don't have memory shortage problems),
serving a copy of the ELKS web site. I also use the web server to get
files I need from it. To get files to the ELKS machine I use urlget.

It is almost eye-wetting to fire an attack of http requests on it and
see the little 8086 starting to swap-out some of the vi's and shells
running on the 3 consoles ,to make room for the httpd's serving the
pages. (Note that with shared memory every new httpd takes only 4kb,
#use chmem for this since the linker fives it a 32KB data segment#)

Good luck with your 286!

Harry



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