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After much frustration and wasted time:
Solution: Additional Boot option (undocumented) : nodmraid
On Friday 24 October 2008 06:41:07 pm Scott Silva wrote:
> on 10-24-2008 7:25 AM Alex H. Vandenham spake the following:
> > When doing the 5.2 installation the ONLY drive option provided is
> >
> >
On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 18:09 -0700, Bill Campbell wrote:
> The Burroughs Medium Systems mainframes I worked on allowed one to store
> the program on disk, then compile with modifications in a card deck, using
> the sequence numbers to replace or insert lines from the cards. There were
> options t
>
> I always laughed at the early quiz shows where they had a ``computer''
> selecting the questions -- where the computer was really a card sorter that
> would select the picked question into a specific bin.
>
> Bill
Knowing Hollywood, it was probably a prop, with a human behind it sorting the
On Sat, 2008-10-25 at 10:17 -0500, David G. Mackay wrote:
>
> Then came CANDE, TD8xx terminals, and editing on your head-per-track
> disk. Ah for the good old days, when men were men, and memory upgrades
> involved fork lifts.
I tried to stay out of this thread, I really did. But the "forklift
On Sat, 2008-10-25 at 12:14 -0400, William L. Maltby wrote:
>
> Circa 1971/2(?), we had an IBM S360/30 with 64K (that's right, "K", "M")
s/"M"/not "M"/
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On Sat, Oct 25, 2008, William L. Maltby wrote:
>
>On Sat, 2008-10-25 at 10:17 -0500, David G. Mackay wrote:
>>
>
>> Then came CANDE, TD8xx terminals, and editing on your head-per-track
>> disk. Ah for the good old days, when men were men, and memory upgrades
>> involved fork lifts.
>I tried to s
On Sat, 2008-10-25 at 12:16 -0400, William L. Maltby wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-10-25 at 12:14 -0400, William L. Maltby wrote:
> >
>
> > Circa 1971/2(?), we had an IBM S360/30 with 64K (that's right, "K", "M")
> s/"M"/not "M"/
Yep. The first computer I programmed on was an IBM 1130 with 16K of
core
On Sat, 2008-10-25 at 10:30 -0700, Bill Campbell wrote:
> And our Burroughs B-3500 would run circles around the 360/50.
> The Burroughs had a whopping 200KB of memory, ran an average of
> 20 jobs in the mix, and didn't require 40 JCL cards to compile
> and run a one line Hello World FORTRAN progra
On Sat, 2008-10-25 at 10:30 -0700, Bill Campbell wrote:
>
> >
> >It did the job too. It was several years before we upgraded to a S360/50
> >with 512K (IIRC).
>
> And our Burroughs B-3500 would run circles around the 360/50.
> The Burroughs had a whopping 200KB of memory, ran an average of
> 20
On Sat, Oct 25, 2008, David G. Mackay wrote:
>On Sat, 2008-10-25 at 10:30 -0700, Bill Campbell wrote:
>
>> And our Burroughs B-3500 would run circles around the 360/50.
>> The Burroughs had a whopping 200KB of memory, ran an average of
>> 20 jobs in the mix, and didn't require 40 JCL cards to compi
On Sat, 2008-10-25 at 12:10 -0700, Bill Campbell wrote:
> My first Burroughs experience was on the B-5500, and it had some
> ``interesting'' quirks. Using Burroughs extended ALGOL, one could do what
> they called array row writes to very efficiently write large chunks of
> memory with a single h
On Sat, Oct 25, 2008, David G. Mackay wrote:
>
>On Sat, 2008-10-25 at 12:10 -0700, Bill Campbell wrote:
>
>> My first Burroughs experience was on the B-5500, and it had some
>> ``interesting'' quirks. Using Burroughs extended ALGOL, one could do what
>> they called array row writes to very efficie
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> From: David G. Mackay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Sent: Saturday, October 25, 2008 4:18:01 PM
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Re: Ole Fossils [ was Re: ls and rm: "argument list too
> long"]
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>
> On Sat, 2008-10-25 at 12:10 -0700, Bill Campbell wro
On Thu, 23 Oct 2008, Spike Turner wrote:
totalitarian republic of CentOS. I believe an announcement
All sources used by CentOS are freely available under a
distributable license, as are those for patched RPMs
consistent with its GPL obligation when _distributing_ the
product of another; the
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Niki Kovacs wrote:
>One of my rare regrets with CentOS 5 was that GIMP only came in version
>2.2, but 2.4 offers many nifty new functions quite handy for everyday
>work. For those of you who are interested, I built some GIMP 2.4
>packages for CentOS 5.
>Downlo
On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 12:16:23PM -0400, William L. Maltby wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-10-25 at 12:14 -0400, William L. Maltby wrote:
> >
>
> > Circa 1971/2(?), we had an IBM S360/30 with 64K (that's right, "K", "M")
> s/"M"/not "M"/
I wish I still had some of my 789 and 6789 cards. If only to use
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
David Hláèik wrote:
>Should i add --backup --suffix = $(date) and thats it?
Why not just setup a test and see?
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