What a coincidence! I was poking around in my old desk and found some of the original slackware floppies I did my first _ever_install with (painstakingly downloaded over a 14400 baud modem connection). Then I realized don't have a floppy drive anymore that works in any device I have. The last floppy I got was an external USB version and it failed about a year ago.<br>
<br>So I tossed the old floppies out. Along with a bazillion year old version of M$ Office on floppies from around Windows 3.11 days.<br><br>I vaguely recall saving my cash for CD drive shortly after the slackware install so I could buy the walnut creek multi-CD compilations of everything Linux on the web at the time.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 11:50 AM, Jim Lynch <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ale_nospam@fayettedigital.com">ale_nospam@fayettedigital.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">Jim Lynch wrote:<br>
><br>
> I sometimes really hate computers. ;)<br>
><br>
> Thanks,<br>
> Jim.<br>
> _______________________________________________<br>
><br>
</div>My bad. I just realized that the program was not hung. I was tailing<br>
the log file but the log had rotated. Since I was not seeing any<br>
activity, I assumed... well you know the rest of the story.<br>
<br>
I have no idea what made it work (I'll just say worked longer for now)<br>
but it is behaving somewhat better than before.<br>
<br>
Thanks for all the suggestions.<br>
<br>
OT I was sorting through my old floppies over the weekend, and came<br>
across a pair of root/boot disks for kernel version 1.2.13-6, Debian<br>
0.93R6 dated 5 Nov 1995. Wonder if they'll boot on anything?<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
<br>
Jim.<br>
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