15 Vendémiaire CCXII (October 6, 2003)
The Continuing Saga of 'I Must Be Crazy'
Note to self: Although no minimum system requirements are listed for OpenDarwin 6.6.2 on x86, a Celeron 400 is probably stretching it.
But why would I bother installing OpenDarwin anyways?
Well, somehow this evening I ended up at the OpenDarwin webpage. While there I decided to browse through the documentation on the x86 port of the OS. So, what's the first thing I see when I look at the x86 release notes?
"Only the PIIX4 IDE controllers have been found to work."
"PIIX4?" I think, "That's just a little on the old side. Wait a minute! My Celeron uses the PIIX4 IDE controller!"
So, a quick check of the ports tree later and I've discovered that, yes, it does have a version of MySQL ported to it. Cue one ISO and three attempts to burn it.
Making sure I've copied the contents of my database over to files so I can rebuild it afterwards, I hook up a keyboard and monitor, stick the CD in, and sudo reboot. Up loads the CD, and away we go!
Now I'm sitting here waiting, waiting, waiting; much like Darwin, which keeps telling me that it's "Waiting for the Apple Security Server" between other tasks. It took nowhere near this long to boot into the install system, I can only hope it's because it's configuring stuff. I suppose I'll just have to find out in the morning.
While I'll be the first to admit that recreational use of OS installations can be fun, I think you have a problem. I suggest you seek help.
There's not much to do in Fredericton right now, that's the problem. Especially on a Sunday night.
It's been worse than this before, trust me. At least I'm only running one OS on my main machine.
The way I figure it, either this works and I stop once I figure out whether or not I can install A/UX, or it doesn't and I re-install Linux.
(I just realised that I had kept all my gnucash files on that hard drive but forgot to back them up first. D'oh!)
Posted by g026r at 15 Vendémiaire CCXII 01:30 (2003/10/06)
Yeah. You have the biggest case of operating system promiscuity (sp?) I've ever heard of. You might as well try and write your own that does what you want it to. Heck.. if you would have started last week, you might have saved yourself time by now.
Ouch. Losing gnucash files is rough.
You're not using the backup scripts I sent you :)
No, no I'm not. I never quite figured out what machine I should store my backups on.
Thankfully I didn't have much in them that I can't quickly redo, but it's still a pain.
To make matters worse, Darwin seems to have hung at the login point. I see
Darwin/BSD (hermod.ratatosk.yggdrasil) (console)
login:
but it refuses to accept any keyboard input.
So it looks like I will have to reinstall.
Posted by g026r at 15 Vendémiaire CCXII 13:45 (2003/10/06)
Derek, are you implying I'm an OS whore? :P
Closest I've ever come to building my own was a LinuxFromScratch installation I did a few years ago. (It would have been around the time that lfs3.0-pre3 or -pre4 came out.) I managed to get things installed much the way I liked them (BSD-style init scripts? Sure!), but in the end it was just too much of a pain to keep up to date.
Posted by g026r at 15 Vendémiaire CCXII 14:16 (2003/10/06)
Branflakes' Box of Rants and Raves - hosted on an LFS system!
My e-mail - hosted on an LFS system.
The moral of the story - LFS == teh bomb. Any questions?
Yes, I have one! I'm assuming you've built package support?
That was my main problem, I never got around to building a package manager to use with it so I could try and sneak in other distro's packages. I built mine over a summer when I was stuck on dial-up access (I got a friend to download all the necessary LFS files for me and burn them), so keeping it up to date wasn't easy. By the time I finally got back onto a high speed connection way too many parts of my system had had bug fixes released.
I bet I still have the CD with all the packages on it somewhere (as it had some other files which are still useful to me on it as well.)
Posted by g026r at 16 Vendémiaire CCXII 00:39 (2003/10/07)
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