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Bootsplash and netboot
07 Mar | 05The new computer I'm using has PXE built-in to the motherboard, so I've switched the way I'm booting the computer up slightly. I'm now use the PXE stuff of SYSLINUX. Unfortunately I don't remember how I had the bootsplash stuff setup with the old way. I'm also having problems with bootsplash. I got the latest patches from www.bootsplash.de but so far when I play with the splash util, it complains that it can't find /proc/splash. I'm guessing this has something to...
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Setting up a Linux box to run MAME
06 Mar | 05I wrote about starting to set up a Linux box for the sole purpose of running MAME almost a year ago on alt.games.mame. See this article to see how far I got (or didn't get). Now I'm back on that project again since I'm setting up a fifth MAME cabinet (with a vertical oriented monitor), and quite possibly a sixth (horizontal) soon. All the previous ones have been all Windoze based. Since I messed with this so long ago, I've forgotten half of what I did to get what I barely got...
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