Subject: New happy user questions...
From: Daniel Haas (Daniel.Haas@cern.ch)
Date: Wed Apr 19 2000 - 03:11:44 MDT
Hello all,
I am new to the list and since yesterday proudly running MoL on my
Wallstreet.
Of course I have a few questions, that I would like to get answered (and
that I could not fully deal-out from the faq's and the archived
mailinglist)
*I am running the newest mol-ppc-rpm and OS 8.6 with NewWorldRom 1.6
* Console mode:
I cannot really get MoL to run in console-mode. It shows up there, but I
do not get the mouse (pressing the modifier keys one by one doesn't help,
or only very occasionally, using Console-Mode -if it works by accident-
usually also kills my Xserver (Xpmac) on exit. I have set the mouse to adb
(4-button Kensington)
At the moment I use 'pseudo-full-screen' under Windowmaker (just in a
Window without border, this works pretty well, and having a
Gnome-control-strip on the left and the Mac one on the right is kind of
fun)
* Disk mounting
For some reason, Mol nearly always fails to mount one of my Mac partitions
alone. Using first aid and just checking this partition immediately mounts
it afterwards). It is the second partition-entry in my mol-config, all
others get mounted without problem (and it is not mounted under Linux,
cause it is HFS+ anyway)
* Ethernet/Appletalk etc.
This is somehow obscure to me: How can I get this running (I cannot just
assign random new IP-numbers, I am in a fairly big Intranet with some
regulations) or how can I exchange at least documents with Linux, without
mounting/unmounting the hfs-partition and start/stop of MoL?
* Virtual Memory
I still have VM turned on in MoL (I need it, cause my System is on a
HFS-partition and BootX in combination with this setup crashes my Mac
normally if I uncheck VM, the only way to restart is via CD afterwards)
Do I pay I high performance price because of that??
* Outlook??
Is there a chance, that MoL will include depth-changes in the future (to
256 colors) so that there is a possibility to run VirtualPC in it??
* Theoretical question:
What happens if I boot to Linux via BootX from MoL by accident??? Will
this crash my running session or what??
Lots of questions, but I must admit, none of them is really a question of
life or death ;-)
Thanks in advance
Daniel
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