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- From: wonge@fraser.sfu.ca (Edmund Wong)
- Subject: Re: quick q
- Message-ID: <1993Jan7.034007.26946@sfu.ca>
- Sender: news@sfu.ca
- Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
- References: <1993Jan6.071608.4248@wuecl.wustl.edu> <1993Jan6.080443.10051@cbfsb.cb.att.com>
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 03:40:07 GMT
- Lines: 38
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- In article <1993Jan6.080443.10051@cbfsb.cb.att.com> wto@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (William T. O Connell) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan6.071608.4248@wuecl.wustl.edu> ppc1@cec2.wustl.edu (Peter Pui Tak Chiu) writes:
- >>
- >>hi everyone,
- >>
- >>i have a few questions on linux.
- >>
- >>1. when i boot up linux using the floppy disk, i see the following messages:
- >> Warning WD8013 board not found at i/o = 280.
- >> ioctl: invalid argument
- >> are they normal?
- >
- >The warning is normal (assuming you don't have a ethernet card installed).
- >ioctl? (haven't seen before - are you doing anything special in your rc file?)
- >Let someone else comment on the invalid argument.
-
- Whoa... I've always received that Warning message, and knowing that
- I don't have an ethernet card, I ignore it. Btw, how much IS an ethernet
- card now? Anyone?
-
- As for the ioctl, that's new for me as well..
-
- >>3. how can i change the node name from "softland" to something i like?
- >
- >Put 'hostname <something you like>' in you rc file.
-
- Well, that only does that when he logs in though. What I think he's
- trying to ask is that (root@softland) thing. Well. Considering he
- didn't specify where, I could be given some leeway in interpretation here.
- But like, for that (root@softland) to be changed to (root@?????), I think
- he'd need to recompile the kernel under the ????? hostname, am I correct?
- >
-
-
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