[wellylug] A teeny tiny skite

[Peter Jones]

Slightly off topic but the longest boot that I am aware of was three days
for an IBM System38 that 
was recovering from a disk error. (and it would not have been quicker to
reload as the backup device
was an 8" diskette drive, and it had about 2 gig of disk (old timey semi-big
iron)

Peter
-----Original Message-----
From: Lindsay Hunter [mailto:klhunter at paradise.net.nz]
Sent: Friday, 12 December 2003 4:40 p.m.
To: wellylug at lists.naos.co.nz
Subject: Re: [wellylug] A teeny tiny skite


That a long boot time?

L

:-)

harrence wrote:

> Stephen Judd wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 07:28, Jethro Carr wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 01:04, Stephen Judd wrote:
>>>   
>>>
>>>> My ipaq boots Linux. It has taken two days. I am down with my geek 
>>>> self.
>>>>
>>>>     
>>>
>>> How well does it run?
>>>
>>> Do you have full functionability (ie: music, graphics, sdcards)?
>>>   
>>
>>
>>  
>>
>>> Does it have a gui?
>>>   
>>
>>
>> Yes to all those. It's running Familiar Linux (familiar.handhelds.org),
>> which is a stripped down 2.4 kernel for StrongArm + GTK + blackbox. When
>> I get the USB networking to my desktop going (project for today) I'll
>> grab some screenshots.
>>
>> It's pretty bloody weird when you can go "tail -f /var/log/syslog" on a
>> palm top, but cool.
>>
>> Stephen
>>
>>
>>  
>>
> Hi Harry here, by the by I know a Stephen Judd in Greytown, Hot 
> guitarist. I've got an Asus terminator 1100 pc and am trawling around 
> for a pci graphics card. Currently looking at the
> geforce4 mx 440 pci. 200 bucks. Any comments on this would be cool. 
> also petrified by the order of events i.e do you change the bios 
> before or after you jam the thing in it's slot? Do you load the 
> drivers before you put the hardware in? H.
>
>
>


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