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The life and times of Stuart Longland (VK4MSL)

Browsing Posts published in November, 2005

Hi All, It has been discovered that the latest 2005.1 stages appear to be missing critical /dev entries. To work around the issue… execute the following commands before exiting the chroot environment: # cd /dev # /sbin/MAKEDEV generic-mipsel This should create the necessary device nodes. I shall look at rectifying the issue ASAP. Stay tuned.

Hi All… I have just started work at improving the netboot images for the Cobalt port. Here you’ll find my latest netboot images. What has changed, is that instead of distributing the raw kernel, these are now distributed as a tarball (uncompressed — bzipping them actually made them larger) complete with CoLo, default.colo startup script, [...]

I’ve been using screen for a little while now. It’s a brilliant little package, but it does have some shortcomings. One being, you can only be viewing one app at a time… and it takes a little getting used to. Anyway, I happened to mention this in #humbug (irc.oz.org)… and how it’d be nice to [...]