[CS-FSLUG] Meet "Blam"

[Don Parris]

On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 14:17:58 +0000, Ed Hurst <ehurst at asisaid.com> wrote:
> 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
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> 
Sounds like fun!  I gotta admit, I just d-r-e-a-m of spending 8 hours
compiling software...

Yeah, right!  :)

Glad you got it running.

Don

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