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    From Jame Clay@1:120/546 to All on Tue Dec 6 06:54:30 2011
    All,

    Was was able to create an LXC (Linux Container) with a Debian v3 ('woody') install, which I think is old enough to be able to run IREX 'properly'. (Interestly enough, the current install for it only takes 147 Megs of file space...<g>) I have IREX installed but need to get it's configuration updated,
    determine what I'll use with it (I originally used the husky utilities) and then see how well it works...




    Jame

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  • From Andrew Leary@1:320/219 to Jame Clay on Mon Dec 12 04:10:28 2011
    Hello Jame.

    06 Dec 11 06:54, you wrote to all:

    Was was able to create an LXC (Linux Container) with a Debian v3 ('woody') install, which I think is old enough to be able to run IREX 'properly'. (Interestly enough, the current install for it only takes
    147 Megs of file space...<g>) I have IREX installed but need to get
    it's configuration updated, determine what I'll use with it (I
    originally used the husky utilities) and then see how well it works...

    As long as it's using a 2.4 kernel, IREX should work on it.

    Andrew

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  • From Kevin Klement@1:342/77 to Andrew Leary on Mon Dec 12 17:29:57 2011
    Hi Andrew,

    Monday December 12 2011 04:10, Andrew Leary wrote to Jame Clay:

    As long as it's using a 2.4 kernel, IREX should work on it.

    Say... question, you using the Linux version? (I may install Linux one day)


    Kevin
    klement@gypsy-designs.com

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  • From Andrew Leary@1:320/119 to Kevin Klement on Mon Dec 12 21:54:19 2011
    Hello Kevin!

    Monday December 12 2011 17:29, Kevin Klement wrote to Andrew Leary:

    Say... question, you using the Linux version? (I may install Linux one day)

    I am using the OS/2 version on my system to support FTP downlinks. I have never tried the Linux version. My Linux system uses MBSE; I've never thought about putting IREX on it.

    Andrew

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  • From Jame Clay@1:120/546 to Andrew Leary on Mon Dec 12 05:54:36 2011
    Hi Andrew!

    06 Dec 11 06:54, you wrote to all:
    Was was able to create an LXC (Linux Container) with a Debian v3
    ('woody') install, which I think is old enough to be able to run IREX
    'properly'. ....

    As long as it's using a 2.4 kernel, IREX should work on it.

    Well, that's one thing I'm not sure of; was it the kernel or the libraries? Or both? If it's really the kernel, or both the kernel & glib, then I'll need to move it into a full VM.

    I will note that with the current setup; although rexcfgl does run without issue, I've seen problems with rexl... ('Course, that could just be that it's been so long since I last tried setting it up...<g>)





    Jame






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  • From Jame Clay@1:120/546 to Andrew Leary on Mon Dec 12 23:18:28 2011
    Andrew,

    I am using the OS/2 version on my system to support FTP downlinks.
    I have never tried the Linux version. My Linux system uses MBSE;
    I've never thought about putting IREX on it.

    Likely because an all-in-one thing like IREX isn't really needed that much on Linux; certainly that's one reason why I haven't been in a big hurry to try to get it running again. Since I do have a registered version and I think it'd be interesting to have it running again, I do come back to it when I have
    time. If nothing else, I figure it'd be a useful thing to have running if only to serve as an example of the FTN services that can be provided...





    Jame





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  • From Jame Clay@1:120/546 to Andrew Leary on Mon Dec 19 03:46:30 2011
    Andrew,

    .... I have IREX installed but need to get
    it's configuration updated, determine what I'll use with it

    As long as it's using a 2.4 kernel, IREX should work on it.

    Do you recall if it _requires_ it? (If now; does anyone?) I ask because the VM I created installed a v2.2 kernel by default. Several versions of the 2.4 kernel are available (I downloaded one of the v3.0r6 DVD ISOs from [1], and used that both for the installation and left it available to the VM for apt-get
    to use), though, so I could get that installed...

    And I wonder if I should go ahead and do that. IRex is working better in the VM than it did in the LXC but there are still issues.



    Jame
    [1] 2] http://cdimage.debian.org/mirror/cdimage/archive/3.0_r6/i386/iso-dvd/



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