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Re: Please help with RH 4.0 silly install problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kyle Ferrio)
Sun Oct 20 13:47:52 1996
Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 13:46:35 -0400 (EDT)
From: Kyle Ferrio <kbf@phy.duke.edu>
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On Sun, 20 Oct 1996, Erik Troan wrote:
> On Sat, 19 Oct 1996, Kyle Ferrio wrote:
>
> > 2 I compiled a fresh 2.0.18 kernel with support for modules.
> > The only things I made modular were NFS_FS and PRINTER.
> > Every time I boot, I get a flood (literally!) of warnings and a few
> > fatal errors from insmod complaining that symbols are either
> > undefined or don't match the kernel. This is a clean-disk install,
> > and the errors relate to modules for cdrom, ipv4, misc, block, scsi,
> > net, and fs. What gives? I've scanned the kerneld HOWTO without luck.
> > Also, I get similar warnings in /var/log/messages when I invoke the
> > Network Configurator.
>
> The errors are from depmod actually. Make sure you remove all of the old
> modules in /lib/modules/2.0.18.
This was a 100% clean install. Subsuquent kernel builds have goone like
this:
make mrproper; make config; make dep; make clean;
make zImage; make modules; make modules_install
cp <new zImage> <loadlin FAT partition>
reboot via loadlin
pull out hair
> > 3 Why is there a big ol' coredump in every home directory, including /root,
> > that ever gets logged into?
>
> That's a good question. Is anyone else seeing this?
I bet/hope it goes away with some of these more serious problems.
> > I ended up doing a fine-grained install for everything. Thank the kind
> > people at Redhat for not fine-graining as finely as Slackware.
>
> We're every bit as fine grained, just not as difficult about it. Both the
> 3.0.3 and 4.0 installs allowed you to select what's installed at the
> individual package level.
Point well taken. I'd echo some of the suggestions others have
made here for even greater flexibility, but what you have is
good and I've got bigger fish to stomp to death.
> > 3 The installer -never- asked me for any net info, contrary to the manual.
>
> That's odd. Did you do a local CDROM installeD?
Yup. The -only- net-related prompt came just before the GMT/local
time setup. I was asked if I wanted to setup for a LAN. On my
first few attempts, I said no. Last time, I said yes, realized this
really wasn't something I wanted (all I want is dialup). Thank
goodness I was able to back out of this part. BTW, I would add
some "are you sures" in otherplaces. Like if the user hits OK
by accident 90% of the way through the fine-graining. Argh!
> > 4 The PPP options in /etc/ppp/options were not set up properly, even after
> > working through the Network Configurator. I had to add "defaultroute"
> > (and a couple other things -- ask me) to be able to see past my ISP's
> > server. The only thing in /etc/ppp/options as installed was "lock"
>
> Okay, I'm asking.
Ask me again once I get PPP (or anything) to work as a module.
I suspect that only defaultroute is absolutely necessary.
But I tossed in crtscts, modem, asyncmap 0 in for good measure.
> There is an option in netcfg to turn on default route, and we're going to make
> that the defalut in the future.
Damn. I looked. I must be blind. Where is it?
I think that would be a good default.
> > 5 Net Configurator encloses expect/send pairs that yo enter (for chat
> > scripts) in single quotes. This might seem like a good idea, unless your
> > password happens to include a single quote. Tracking down where this
> > info is stored (i.e., -not- in /usr/lib/ppp) was fun. locate got a
> > workout.
>
> :-) Of course, if your password includes a space we have to do this <sigh>.
Er, wouldn't double-quotes protect spaces, with the benefit
of also not doing anything to enclosed single quotes?
I'm probably missing something here. I guess we each (along with,
oh, a few thousand other folks) now know at least one character
of each other's passwords. :)
Kyle
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