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- From: jthomas@nmsu.edu (James Thomas)
- Subject: New 877 Installation
- Message-ID: <JTHOMAS.92Dec24140611@navajo.nmsu.edu>
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- Organization: NMSU Computer Science
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 21:06:11 GMT
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- Hi all (again :-),
-
- We are installing a new 877 :-) We are having several problems, four of
- which are possibly of generic interest.
-
- 1) No blank DDS tapes come with the system. I couldn't even find a part
- number listed in TFM. We get PC's with blank floppies. Could not HP find
- it reasonable to ship a box of DDS tapes with the system?
-
- 2) The OS is preinstalled. Gee, that's helpful :-) Of course, the
- installation does not do much good since the partitions used are useless (I
- suppose I should be thankful that it has partitions - not like the 700's;
- but as per previous discussions we want to be able to set the sizes
- ourselves :-) . It comes with partitions in sections 0, 1, 3, 5, and 10
- (this is a 1.4G disk) and the helpful message that this can be changed with
- sam :-) s0 is 23MB, s1 is 46MB, s3 is 28MB, s5 is /usr and s10 is / . To
- make this into any reasonable IMHO configuration requires reloading the
- system. It seems to me that making the whole thing / so it looked like a
- 700 would be better, at least better than this.
-
- 3) Could someone please tell me where in TFM it describes how the console
- has been broken for emacs use? (C-b [^B] has been usurped to get to the
- "console front end" [has an LSI-11 been added to start the CPU ?-], and C-v
- [^V] does something - perhaps it's a quote character?) For that matter, is
- there something that describes the commands provided by the "console front
- end"?
-
- 4) Now we have these new CD-ROM's with CODEWORD's (well, actually we don't
- yet, but that's a different story :-). I understand the need for the
- password protection. I do not understand why the passwords don't come with
- the CD-ROM. Especially with a new system (knowing the OS will be
- reinstalled to get the partitions right :-) doesn't HP know the serial
- number of the system the CD will be used on???? Where they will be used on
- multiple systems, doesn't HP know at least one serial number?? Wouldn't
- there be a few more happy customers if these extra steps were removed?
-
- Thanks for listening :-)
- Jim Thomas (jthomas@wsmr-emh82.army.mil)
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- Jim Thomas jthomas@nmsu.edu jthomas%midas@wsmr-emh89.army.mil
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