DS10 Installation problems
Hello fellows,
I have to migrate a DS10 from True64Unix to linux. My choice was for potato.
The debian/linux is on a second hard drive.
As the server may not be down very long, the install procudure is done during
late hours, and it won't be in production before everything works correctly.
So for now, we boot tru64 on the first drive, and make corrections to potato
form time to time on the second drive.
I installed the OS one month ago, without problems.
During the last month, the tape-drive cable was finally installed on the
machine, still with tru64. After that, when I wanted to boot Debian, I
discovered after an hour that the OS would'nt discover the second hard drive
as long as no tape was in the tape driver. Can someone explain me why ?
Second problem is with the console a vt420 terminal on the serial port.
When I installed th OS, it worked fine. Since the tape Installation (I guess,
since nothing else has changed) the boot message freeses on the console when
the portmap daemon is booting. (I removed the portmap daemon from the boot
process, and the freeze occured after the network interfaces are setup).
More, the text on the terminal seems to shake slowly, which I have never seen
before.
I'm not used with working with terminals, as my experience is mostly on
smaller machines, But I installed a AS1000 without a problem. Can someone
point me to an explanation ?
Note that at that point, I am able to log in the machine from the network.
Except it is very slow before the login prompt. I suspect it may be because of
the autonegociation between the computer and the switch, which I'll fix
tonight. My two NICS are from DEC, model tulip.
And, finally, I'd like to configure that server as a mail gateway for all my
organisation, but without it habing any users. All incoming messages should be
redirected to our internal mail server, but it would also relay all mail for
the internet coming form our internal mailserver to the internet.
If I am not wrong, the internal mail server would be the MAIL_HUB, and the
server would be the smart host. Am I right ? Can someone poit me to clear doc
for that ?
Thanks in advance
Marc Dubrowski
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