[CS-FSLUG] Meet "Blam"

[Ed Hurst]

Personal disaster narrowly averted... for a time. :-)

I managed to resurrect an old ProSignia 200 (economy server) with a 
P2/233, a whopping 196MB RAM, two massive SCSIs (2 & 4GB), a Matrox 
Millenium II PCI (4MB VRAM), and no sound.

I installed FreeBSD 5.3, which evidently is able to work around the 
cheap and faulty 16550 COM port controllers. (FreeBSD 4.9 complained 
constantly of "silo overflows" which caused lots of dropped packets on 
the modem.) It took roughly 8 hours to recompile and optimize core 
system files and kernel.

It crawls, the drives are noisy, the case is huge -- but it works, and 
will provide minimal service until God sees fit to provide something 
better. Meanwhile, He is sooooooo good.

-- 
Ed Hurst
----------------
A Bible Site - http://webs.tconline.net/softedges/
Linux & BSD Help - http://ed.asisaid.com/
Plain Package Blog - http://ed.asisaid.com/blog/