[Cooker] Install Issues

[Eric H]

I am using an Ultra ATA/66 HD with an Abit BP6 motherboard and really like the speed
improvement over ATA/33 in windows.  I saw that Red Hat 6.2 was out and downloaded just
to find that it has no support for Ultra ATA/66.  I know you have said that Mandrake
cooker now supports Ultra ATA/66.  I downloaded cooker and tried to install it from my 
HD
using the hd.img but it crashes with some termination error 11 thing at the select
partion and path screen no matter what I type.
I'll burn it to a cd, but it's 773 MB and I was wondering what is safe to cut out so it
will fit.  I know people have asked this question before but I don't remember.

Thanks for the help!

Eric H

Re: [Cooker] anybody else get the nis working?

[Eric H]

Sorry, I don't have linux in front of me right now but you can fix it by
opening up the ypserve Makefile and scroll downing somewhere around 3/4
of the way down.  You will see sections that say passwd.userid and
group.userid (or something very similar).  Once you find the group.
section there are two parts.  The top half is if you merge the shadow or
something with it and then the bottom half is if you don't and thats the
part with the extra @ symbols in place.  By looking at the error
messages and the first set of group.userid you can locate the wild @'s. 
If I can remember to look at the file while at work I'll be more
specific.
Hope this helps.

Eric H

Roger wrote:
 
 any specific info on the yp Makefile? with the 2 extra "@", or is this updated
 in one of the cooker rpm's (yp*.rpm) to where i should just update with that
 particular rpm. etc.
 
 On Mon, 07 Feb 2000, you wrote:
  Ya, I got NIS working with Mandrake 7.0.  It sure was a bitch though
  because they wrote the makefile wrong.
  You get that "Domain not bound" error when you do not have your NIS
  database built.  You have to type /usr/lib/yp/ypinit -m
  You then follow the instructions and it will attempt to build your
  database.  Unless yours is different then mine, it gave me two 'Command
  not found' errors while trying to build the group part.  Its because
  there are two extra @ symbols in the makefile that shouldn't be there.
  After you remove them it will build correctly.  Then I had the problem
  where the clients knew the server was there and that the password and
  group data bases existed but it wouldn't let anyone login.  After
  playing with it a bit I found that you have to set merge the shadow with
  the password to 'true' in the makefile as well.  Not sure about the
  groups tho.  You might have to do those too.  See the NIS howto for more
  information.  I had to read it like 5 times before I finally understood
  what it was saying.
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Re: [Cooker] anybody else get the nis working?

[Eric H]

Ya, I got NIS working with Mandrake 7.0.  It sure was a bitch though
because they wrote the makefile wrong.
You get that "Domain not bound" error when you do not have your NIS
database built.  You have to type /usr/lib/yp/ypinit -m
You then follow the instructions and it will attempt to build your
database.  Unless yours is different then mine, it gave me two 'Command
not found' errors while trying to build the group part.  Its because
there are two extra @ symbols in the makefile that shouldn't be there. 
After you remove them it will build correctly.  Then I had the problem
where the clients knew the server was there and that the password and
group data bases existed but it wouldn't let anyone login.  After
playing with it a bit I found that you have to set merge the shadow with
the password to 'true' in the makefile as well.  Not sure about the
groups tho.  You might have to do those too.  See the NIS howto for more
information.  I had to read it like 5 times before I finally understood
what it was saying.