[99557] in RedHat Linux List
Again on PPP/RH5.1 & Kernel Upgrading
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Orlando San Martin)
Sun Nov 15 16:09:13 1998
From: "Orlando San Martin" <smorland@online.no>
To: <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1998 22:06:40 +0100
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Thanks Jan for your answer , but still having troubles and no PPP on my
kernel yet.
Have two questions this time, one is technical the other more phylosophical
??.
Technical question :
Given I have not managed to put a PPP on my kernel, I have no way of
downloading anything whatsoever into my Linux machine !!..how can I still
download and install the updates I need ??.
I can download them into my WIN98/DOS partition and from there via a
diskette to Linux...this works fine for the small updates, less than 1.44
MB...what about the larger ones.
I maybe do not need all these updates now, but which one of them are
required to have the ppp feature I need to internetting ??
I already did the :
# rpm ppp-2_3_5_1-i386.rpm
but still when I do the :
# dmesg | less
I still do not find any line refering to any PPP ??.
The phylosophical question :
My point with buying a CD from Red Hat was preciselly to avoid all this
downloading business, why is it that one do not get the whole thing on the
CD ??..I can imagine a ppp is not like an "accesory", but a rather standard
feature that most people require to conect to internet ....is like Bill
Gates selling Windows without internet communication software, isn't it ??.
-----Original Message-----
From: Jan Carlson <janc@iname.com>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Date: Wednesday, November 11, 1998 11:29 PM
Subject: Re: PPP/RH5.1 & Kernel Upgrading
>If you have a fresh RH5.1 install, you still need to download the
>updates
>for 5.1, and install them using:
>
># rpm -Uvh *.rpm
>
>Get updates from a mirror of RedHat, since
>the Redhat site is always slow and sometimes saturated.
>See http://www.redhat.com/mirrors.html for a list of mirror sites.
>
>On my favorite mirror sites, the 5.1 update rpms are in
>pub/Linux/redhat/updates.redhat.com/5.1/i386/
>
>Your site may be organized a bit differently.
>Anyway, there are about 80 megabytes of updates for 5.1,
>and you should install the updates for all the packages you
>use.
>
>--
>
>Jan Carlson
>janc@iname.com Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
>Mailed with Netscape 4.5 on Red Hat Linux 5.2
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