Subject: Re: Making Champion CD
From: Christopher F. Baum (baum@bc.edu)
Date: Fri Sep 10 1999 - 07:00:45 MDT
Like I say, the only reason for downtime is the inability of the BnW power
supply to draw directly from photonic energy. If the power had stayed on, I
presume the machine would still be running months from now.
Kit Baum
--On Fri, Sep 10, 1999 6:45 AM -0600 Dan Burcaw <dburcaw@terraplex.com>
wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, Christopher F. Baum wrote:
>
>> I did buy a 1.0 CD, but by the time my BnW came through I found that I
>> could not use the 1.0 CD for much but a drinks coaster. So I installed
>> 1.1 by ftping the two files (new kernel and ramdisk) from yellowdog,
>> then in the installer used FTP from one of the many sites that provide
>> the full distribution (yellowdog was not answering pings that AM, so I
>> used UIUC). It went jes fine after I heeded all those little notes on
>> the last page of the 1.1 pdf (technotes), and it ran for 12 days until
>> our many-Kv cable powering the campus blew--as did the backup. Can't
>> blame that on Linux!
>
> 12 days? :)
> we have a YDL box (an old 7500 in fact) that's been up for 137 days :)
>
> Later,
> Dan
>
>>
>> Kit Baum
>> Boston College Economics
>>
>>
>> --On Thu, Sep 9, 1999 11:50 PM -0400 David Barnum
>> <barnum81@earthlink.net> wrote:
>>
>> > I saw something on the ftp site about making a Champion 1.1 CD I think
>> > is is possible to download all the 1.1 files and make my own install
>> > CD? I am not trying to rip anyone off I swear I bought 1.0 and wanted
>> > to upgrade but I am not rich
>> > Dave
>> >
>>
>>
>>
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>> Kit Baum baum@bc.edu http://fmwww.bc.edu/ec-v/baum.fac.html
>>
>
> Dan
>
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>
>
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