Top Document: Compaq Contura Aero Frequently Asked Questions Previous Document: 3.3.6.8 Parallel Port Things Next Document: 3.3.7 Other UNIX See reader questions & answers on this topic! - Help others by sharing your knowledge [C] Subject: easy UNIX on the AERO Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 09:10:14 -0500 From: "Brockwell, Stephen E." <brockwse@fssec.army.mil> Thanks to all who posted messages on my request for help in putting a version of UNIX on my AERO. I finally achieved success by getting MONKEY LINUX (?) from the site: <ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/distributions/monkey/> After I found this I was able in about 10 minutes to put this version of LINUX on the computer. (no repartitioning the hard drive, you only need about 30M free for the system. ) You download 5 floppy disks worth of software , un-arj the files and start the bat file. Simple.!!!! Carefully read the information and you too can do it in a snap. It appears to have AWK, SED, PERL and so far fills my needs in developing test procedures for automated systems. Talk about fun!!!! X-windows comes with it and there are packages like man pages and NETSCAPE and others. FOR FREE!!!! [C] Date: Mon, 26 May 1997 12:53:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Elizabeth Yip <elyip@WOLFENET.com> I want to report that I have installed "Monkey Linux" on my aero 4/25. Monkey Linux is a UMSDOS distribution that comes in 5 floppies and takes up about 20Mb of hard disk space. The latest version uses kernel 1.2.30. The best part is it comes with X. I have to change a few things to make it work on the aero: (1) relink /dev/mouse to /dev/psaux (2) change the 'gpm' line in /etc/rc.d/rc.local to gpm -t PS/2 (3) download X32VG16.tgz and relink /var/X11R6/bin/X to it (4) change XF86Config in /etc according to Subject 3.3.6.5 of the compaq aero FAQ. Monkey Linux can be found in the sunsite and the mirror of sunsite in Georgia Tech. [C] From: Philip Wilk Date: May 26, 1997 WWW homepage: http://www.spsselib.hiedu.cz/monkey/ Primary site: ftp://ftp.spsselib.hiedu.cz/pub/linux/monkey/ Mirror sites: ftp://ftp.vslib.cz/pub/unix/linux/monkey/ ftp://sunsite.mff.cuni.cz/OS/Linux/Distributions/Monkey/ ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/distributions/monkey/ User Contributions:Top Document: Compaq Contura Aero Frequently Asked Questions Previous Document: 3.3.6.8 Parallel Port Things Next Document: 3.3.7 Other UNIX Single Page [ Usenet FAQs | Web FAQs | Documents | RFC Index ] Send corrections/additions to the FAQ Maintainer: Philip Wilk <PWilk-aerofaq@ZenSpider.com>
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