Re: nov 7

[http://www.bfnet.com/~robert (Red Hat Linux User)]

 > From: http://www.sfbg.com/~darrel_ritcht (darrel i. ritcht)
 > Date: Fri  Nov  7,  1:06pm
 >
 > hey robert!!!
 >  	sue doesnt read her email very often I guess because she has to use the
 > comp at school, I am  going to try to get over there
 > this month (nov) and bring her that zenith 286 so she can get online at
 > home (if I can get that mirror program to work with the schools comp..) 
 > linux runs fine on the 386 (after I spent about 50 hours fuckin with it -
 > had to bail the umdos file system and do the 3 partition thing with dos
 > taking about 10M , still have'nt figured out how to get it to read floppys
 > in linux so I downloaded the linux users guide from sunsite on to dos and
 > then switch to linux were the file can be gunziped) what a #@%!!@#
 > educational experience!!!!!
 > anyway could not use mirror because theres not enough room in the dos
 > part, now i'm trying to get ghostscript

You shouldn't need ghostscript; did you look in
http://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO
?  That should have everything you need.  Ghostscript is too huge to deal
with.

 > to run correctly since the goddam
 > doc is in that format, it seems that none of the preset vidieo modes are
 > quite right resulting in the text being either off to the right or off the
 > page down but I feel that if I spend another 20 or so hours at it I might
 > be able to allmost make it work--HA HA HA!!!  Know any thing about
 > resetting the vid parrameters in gs ?? luckly this is a laptop as I have
 > heard that it's possible to compleatly fuck the monitor hardware over  by
 > running it at the wrong sync-also when I finally got the track ball to go
 > I was playing around with it while a floppy was accessing then I started
 > getting "not reading drive a:" error- had to change the damn drive!!!
 > could this have been a coinsidence or is it really possible to screw up a
 > FD like that??? 
 > luckly I've got another comp for spare parts.  hey, I heard there was a
 > rumble in  tonight--
 > me & the boys are in for a hell of a fight 
 > 		(stray cats-1986)
 > TTFN!!
 > 		will q:?)
 > (next time I'll give the o'l PGP a go!!)