Subject: Re: New happy user questions...
From: Evan Read (eread@netaccess.co.nz)
Date: Wed Apr 19 2000 - 03:34:52 MDT
I would like to try and answer some and add more questions to the pile:
> * 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)
At home on my iMac, setting the mouse to adb worked fine using a regular
iMac keyboard and a Contour Unimouse.
At work, a G4 with a USB Microsoft keyboard and Dynalink mouse don't seem
to work at all. I don't know what this is about.
> * 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)
hmmm... Maybe MOL relies on Linux? ;)
> * 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?
Not sure. I think you need some sort of AppleTalk compiled into the
kernal. TCP/IP over ethernet worked out of the box.
> * Theoretical question:
> What happens if I boot to Linux via BootX from MoL by accident??? Will
> this crash my running session or what??
I have done this ;) Basically, the MacOS in MOL freezes with one of those
white rectangle things ;) Linux is unaffected. Though if in full screen
mode, you can't "CTRL-C" it ;)
Hope some of this helps.
Ev.
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