Re: Frees/wan setup problems

2003-02-27 Thread Cole Tuininga
On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 17:16, Kenneth E. Lussier wrote:
 On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 15:03, Cole Tuininga wrote:
 
  But not via the VPN:
  
  traceroute 192.168.2.1
  traceroute to 192.168.2.1 (192.168.2.1), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets
   1  * * *
  (etc)
 
 What about from the subnet to the gateway?

I'm not sure if you mean the closer gateway or the further one, but from
192.168.1.68:

$ traceroute 192.168.1.1
traceroute to 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets
 1  192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1)  0.445 ms  0.194 ms  0.173 ms


$ traceroute 192.168.2.1 
traceroute to 192.168.2.1 (192.168.2.1), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets
 1  192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1)  0.340 ms  0.181 ms  0.161 ms
 2  * * *
(*sputter* *cough* *choke*)


   2) 192.168.1.0/24-to-opposite gateway
   3) 192.168.2.0/24-to-opposite gateway
  
  You're basically saying to just add these two in?  
 
 Yes.

Ok - so here's what the appropriate sections of my ipsec.conf look like
now:

conn panam-cole-ss
left = 63.127.199.26
leftsubnet = 192.168.2.0/24
leftnexthop = 63.127.199.25
# RSA 2192 bits   inside   Sat Feb 22 04:28:58 2003
leftrsasigkey=0sAQNkta3s7v3B [snip]
right = 209.187.117.100
rightsubnet = 192.168.1.0/24
rightnexthop = 209.187.117.65
# RSA 2192 bits   deb-box   Tue Feb 25 13:13:11 2003
rightrsasigkey=0sAQPBb4MhWjn [snip]
auto = start

conn panam-cole-gg
left = 63.127.199.26
leftnexthop = 63.127.199.25
# RSA 2192 bits   inside   Sat Feb 22 04:28:58 2003
leftrsasigkey=0sAQNkta3s7v3B [snip]
right = 209.187.117.100
rightnexthop = 209.187.117.65
# RSA 2192 bits   deb-box   Tue Feb 25 13:13:11 2003
rightrsasigkey=0sAQPBb4MhWjn [snip]
auto = start

conn panam-cole-gs
left = 63.127.199.26
leftnexthop = 63.127.199.25
# RSA 2192 bits   inside   Sat Feb 22 04:28:58 2003
leftrsasigkey=0sAQNkta3s7v3Bv [snip]
right = 209.187.117.100
rightsubnet = 192.168.1.0/24
rightnexthop = 209.187.117.65
# RSA 2192 bits   deb-box   Tue Feb 25 13:13:11 2003
rightrsasigkey=0sAQPBb4MhWjnp9 [snip]
auto = start

conn panam-cole-sg
left = 63.127.199.26
leftsubnet = 192.168.2.0/24
leftnexthop = 63.127.199.25
# RSA 2192 bits   inside   Sat Feb 22 04:28:58 2003
leftrsasigkey=0sAQNkta3s7v3B [snip]
right = 209.187.117.100
rightnexthop = 209.187.117.65
# RSA 2192 bits   deb-box   Tue Feb 25 13:13:11 2003
rightrsasigkey=0sAQPBb4MhWjnp9Y4 [snip]
auto = start

After setting these up and activating them, initially, my ssh connection
to the remote gateway (63.127.199.26) stalls for a minute or two and
then comes back.

Routing tables look like this:

192.168.1.1:

# route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse
Iface
63.127.199.26   209.187.117.65  255.255.255.255 UGH   0  00
ipsec0
209.187.117.64  0.0.0.0 255.255.255.192 U 0  00
eth1
209.187.117.64  0.0.0.0 255.255.255.192 U 0  00
ipsec0
192.168.2.0 209.187.117.65  255.255.255.0   UG0  00
ipsec0
192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0   U 0  00
eth0
0.0.0.0 209.187.117.65  0.0.0.0 UG0  00
eth1


192.168.2.1:

# route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse
Iface
209.187.117.100 63.127.199.25   255.255.255.255 UGH   0  00
ipsec0
63.127.199.24   0.0.0.0 255.255.255.252 U 0  00
eth0
63.127.199.24   0.0.0.0 255.255.255.252 U 0  00
ipsec0
192.168.2.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0   U 0  00
eth1
192.168.1.0 63.127.199.25   255.255.255.0   UG0  00
ipsec0
0.0.0.0 63.127.199.25   0.0.0.0 UG0  00
eth0


   You can try
   forcing a route between the two gateways, which might help. Can you send
   me the output of a pluto barf? (BTW... Who *NAMES* these things??? ;-)
  
  A barf from when?  Startup?  When I try to send ICMP packets through? 
  TCP packets?
 
 C. All of the above. ;-)
 
I'll generate this in a little bit and mail it to Kenny off list.  Anybody else 
masochistic ... er ... interested enough in looking at the logs can email me and
I'll be happy to send a copy.

 It looks like the requests are going out, but the response is not coming
 back. You may want to run tcpdump without specifying an interface to see
 even more of the traffic. From this it looks like the pings are going
 out to the box but are not routed back properly. 

Ok, this time around, I'm doing a: # tcpdump -i any | grep icmp

From 192.168.1.68, I attempt to ping 192.168.1.69.  Here are the tcpdump
results:

08:55:36.694803 192.168.1.68  192.168.2.69: icmp: echo request (DF)
08:55:36.694985 192.168.1.68  192.168.2.69: icmp: echo request (DF)
08:55:36.748865 192.168.2.69  192.168.1.68: icmp: echo reply
08:55:37.687780 

Future meeting topics

2003-02-27 Thread Mark Komarinski
Here's a few ideas, some of them relevant to what I'm going through
and ideas from last night's meeting:

Debugging kernel oopses (there's a lot of slides on the topic, but there
 they reference what the speaker is saying)
LVM on single-drive machines (install, use, advantages, etc.)
Writing presentations using mgp (a few of us use it, including me)
Bluetooth / IEEE1394 use under Linux

For the 'newbies':

New features in RH 8.1
Comparison of programming languages available on Linux
Book reviews might be an idea, if even just on the mailing list

BTW, my slides from last night's presentation are available
at http://www.wayga.org/melba/02_2003

-Mark


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Re: Linux booting problems

2003-02-27 Thread Kenny Donahue
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In a message dated: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 15:30:58 EST
Kenny Donahue said:
 

ext3 comes up then it try's to load the ext3 module.
   

[nit-picking: tries not try's :) ]

 

it fails with undefined symbols in jdb.o and ext3.o.
Why is it trying to load modules that are suposed to be
in the kernel  I looked in /lib/modules/linux-2.4.7-10custom/
and these modules DONT EXIST!!!
   

Chances are there's a modules.conf or something which loaded these 
from the default kernel, and it's still trying...

 

make modules_install
   

but you probably just blew them away with this step here.
(of course, I could be wrong :)
 

make install
   

I recommend not doing the make install, rather, manually copying
arch/arch/boot/bzImage to /boot/vmlinuz-whatever and editing the 
lilo.conf to add a new kernel.  Then run lilo to recognize this new 
kernel and boot from it.

That way you don't lose your old kernel.
 

I did do a make modules.  Sorry about the spelling but I'm typing in anger.
I save the output from my make install and it does A LOT more then
just copy hte bzImage vmlinuz and System map
make install  /tmp/makeInstallOutput
Thanks,
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Re: Linux booting problems

2003-02-27 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 03:50:49PM -0500, Kenny Donahue wrote:
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 I recommend not doing the make install, rather, manually copying
 arch/arch/boot/bzImage to /boot/vmlinuz-whatever and editing the 
 lilo.conf to add a new kernel.  Then run lilo to recognize this new 
 kernel and boot from it.
 
 That way you don't lose your old kernel.
  
 
 
 I did do a make modules.  Sorry about the spelling but I'm typing in anger.
 I save the output from my make install and it does A LOT more then
 just copy hte bzImage vmlinuz and System map
 make install  /tmp/makeInstallOutput

IIRC, the make install also fires off lilo, or at least configures
lilo for you.  I'd stick to the previously-given advice and move the
bzImage and System map manually into /boot.  I spent the first few days
this week wrestling with the kernel, so this is a topical discussion
for me.

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Re: Linux booting problems

2003-02-27 Thread Kenny Donahue
Mark Komarinski wrote:

On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 03:50:49PM -0500, Kenny Donahue wrote:
 

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I recommend not doing the make install, rather, manually copying
arch/arch/boot/bzImage to /boot/vmlinuz-whatever and editing the 
lilo.conf to add a new kernel.  Then run lilo to recognize this new 
kernel and boot from it.

That way you don't lose your old kernel.

 

I did do a make modules.  Sorry about the spelling but I'm typing in anger.
I save the output from my make install and it does A LOT more then
just copy hte bzImage vmlinuz and System map
make install  /tmp/makeInstallOutput
   

IIRC, the make install also fires off lilo, or at least configures
lilo for you.  I'd stick to the previously-given advice and move the
bzImage and System map manually into /boot.  I spent the first few days
this week wrestling with the kernel, so this is a topical discussion
for me.
-Mark
 

The make install claims that it modifies lilo.conf but it doesn't.
I modify it myself.  I am recompiling now (again :(  ) . I will try it
by hand.
My main questions was why was it trying to load modules when
I built it into the kernel?  I looked at modules.conf. that's ok.
I will look in modules.dep after I'm done. 
One more quick question do I need jbd with ext3? I am not including
it right now.
Thanks,
Kenny

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Re: Linux booting problems

2003-02-27 Thread pll

In a message dated: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 16:09:50 EST
mike ledoux said:

Yes.  ext3 depends on jbd.  If you didn't compile in jbd, that explains
why it is looking for the module; if you didn't build the module, that
explains the error.

I sit corrected :)  It's been a while since I looked at a kernel 
config and needed ext3 (I've been using XFS and reiserfs).
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Re: Linux booting problems

2003-02-27 Thread pll

In a message dated: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 16:05:26 EST
Kenny Donahue said:

The make install claims that it modifies lilo.conf but it doesn't.

It's for precisely this reason I stopped using 'make install'.

My main questions was why was it trying to load modules when
I built it into the kernel?

Stupid question, but are you sure you were booting the right kernel?
Could you have not changed the default kernel label to point to 
yours, or forgotten to specify at boot time to use the new kernel?

As I'm sure you know, just running lilo to recognize your new kernel 
does no good if there's a default label pointing to some *other* 
kernel.  So, if the default tried to install the ext3 mod, and it's 
no longer there, you're screwed.

One more quick question do I need jbd with ext3? I am not including
it right now.

I don't think so.  I don't ever remember using it.
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Re: Linux booting problems

2003-02-27 Thread Kenny Donahue
mike ledoux wrote:

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On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 04:05:26PM -0500, Kenny Donahue wrote:
 

My main questions was why was it trying to load modules when
I built it into the kernel?  I looked at modules.conf. that's ok.
I will look in modules.dep after I'm done. 
One more quick question do I need jbd with ext3? I am not including
it right now.
   

Yes.  ext3 depends on jbd.  If you didn't compile in jbd, that explains
why it is looking for the module; if you didn't build the module, that
explains the error.
 

so. why is ext3 on by default but jbd off by default?
The only why  I figured this out was by looking at the
modules.dep file.
Thanks,
Kenny
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Re: Linux booting problems

2003-02-27 Thread Bayard R. Coolidge
At  the risk of sounding like a smart aleck, I would very strongly 
suggest that
anyone building a test kernel like this on an i386-based system, do so by
doing a 'make bzdisk' and have it expectorate the kernel under test onto a
floppy. This will help reduce the finger-pointing around LILO and /boot, 
etc.,
and therefore reduce the amount of troubleshooting necessary, and allow
you to go back to a known state to rebuild your kernel again.

Also, RH 7.2 is getting a bit old, and it's possible (and I honestly 
don't know
for sure, since I run SuSE) that there may be some subtle issues around the
compiler suite in 7.2. (Outdated libraries or some such). I'm sure that 
others
may be able to tell me why I'm wrong about this, however :-)

HTH,

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'make bzSomethingOtherThanOnAFloppy [was Re: Linux booting problems ]

2003-02-27 Thread pll

In a message dated: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 16:33:01 EST
Bayard R. Coolidge said:

At  the risk of sounding like a smart aleck, I would very strongly 
suggest that anyone building a test kernel like this on an i386-based
system, do so by doing a 'make bzdisk' and have it expectorate the
kernel under test onto a floppy. 

Here's a stupid question.  Dell recently announced that they're 
getting rid of floppy drives in their systems.  I expect most other 
manufacturers to eventually follow suit.  So, when this happens, and 
we're all living in a floppy-less world, how do then do things like
'make bzdisk' ?
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Re: 'make bzSomethingOtherThanOnAFloppy [was Re: Linux booting problems]

2003-02-27 Thread Bayard R. Coolidge
 So, when this happens, and we're all living in a floppy-less world,
 how do then do things like 'make bzdisk' ?
Beats me, although to be honest, I've had the same problem on Alpha
for a couple of years, although it's been months since I've booted my Alpha,
much less built a kernel for it.
Clearly, it will be a bit trickier to do experimental kernel builds. The 
thing
that caught my attention in the ongoing discussion was the automatic
invocation of LILO. I was not aware that that was the case, but since it's
been a couple of years since I've built a kernel that wasn't on a floppy, I
guess I'm just ignorant.

I suspect that we'll all have to get used to being very, very careful about
what /boot/System.map points to, and what kernels are called what in /boot
and so forth. I haven't tried booting a SCSI ZIP disk, but that might be one
possibility IMNSHO.
B.

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Eric Raymond's writings.

2003-02-27 Thread David Richter
Has anyone noticed that the site that once contained Eric Raymond's 
writings:

www.tuxedo.org/~esr/

is no longer accessable via the web. The link is greeted with a script 
that redirects one to a selection of random sites dealing with Open 
Source. Although Mr. Raymonds writings were always treated by me as a 
gift, I somehow feel robbed. The random links are a treasure of 
information however I miss the freedom of reading one of Open Source's 
premier advocates.

This is not a technical issue, just an issue that makes one say hmm.

David

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Re: Linux booting problems

2003-02-27 Thread John Abreau
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Kenny Donahue [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 Ok deeep breath. I'm ready to though
 Linux out.  I've been fighting with a Linux kernel
 build for a while now. I'm getting very angry.
 I can load a Redhat 7.2 distribution and everything
 works.  I need to patch the kernel for a project at
 work. so, I do my patch (../fs/proc/base.c if it makes a
 difference) then
[snip]

I've been running Redhat for ages, and I've found that it's easier to 
stick with kernel rpms. Fortunately the stock kernel sources include 
an rpm target, so building rpms from the virgin kernel source should 
be fairly straightforward. The trick is to load the same config that 
your system is already using, which you'll find in one of the files 
under /usr/src/linux-2.4/configs, while in make xconfig. Then apply 
your changes from that known-good setting. 

Try this:

make mrproper
make xconfig
load config from /usr/src/linux-2.4/configs/kernel-2.4.18-i686.conf
ig
add your scsi driver into the kernel
make dep
make rpm
sudo rpm -i /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i686/kernel-2.4.18.i686.rpm
edit lilo.conf 
...

When I do this, I like to do the full build without adding my patches, 
so I can explicitly verify that the pre-patched setup is working. 

Note that you want to install (-i) the new kernel, not upgrade (-U). 
That way you don't lose the older kernel that already works correctly, 
so if the new kernel fails you can still boot the system. 


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Re: Eric Raymond's writings.

2003-02-27 Thread Kevin D. Clark

David Richter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 Has anyone noticed that the site that once contained Eric Raymond's 
 writings:
 
 www.tuxedo.org/~esr/

 is no longer accessable via the web. The link is greeted with a script 
 that redirects one to a selection of random sites dealing with Open 
 Source. 

I noticed this a while ago too.  I don't know what the reason is for
the random redirections (if anybody knows, please clue me in).

But anyways, here's what seems to be a reliable home page:

http://catb.org/~esr/

Regards,

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Re: Linux booting problems

2003-02-27 Thread Cole Tuininga

It's been a while since I've played with RedHat, but IIRC, when using a
stock kernel, you have to uncomment the line in the make file that
points the image to be placed in /boot...

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Re: 'make bzSomethingOtherThanOnAFloppy [was Re: Linux booting problems]

2003-02-27 Thread Jason Stephenson
I use grub and I remember from using LILO that it is very easy to set up 
the menu to select multiple kernel versions. So, you build your 
experimental kernel, store it next to your main kernel, add a lilo.conf 
or grub.conf entry for your new kernel, then reboot and choose the 
experimental kernel. I've been doing this for several years. I've never 
bothered with make bzdisk.

BTW, my main workstation has not had a floppy drive for over two years 
now. I built it with one, but took it out because I was never using it.

Bayard R. Coolidge wrote:
  So, when this happens, and we're all living in a floppy-less world,
  how do then do things like 'make bzdisk' ?
Beats me, although to be honest, I've had the same problem on Alpha
for a couple of years, although it's been months since I've booted my 
Alpha,
much less built a kernel for it.

Clearly, it will be a bit trickier to do experimental kernel builds. The 
thing
that caught my attention in the ongoing discussion was the automatic
invocation of LILO. I was not aware that that was the case, but since it's
been a couple of years since I've built a kernel that wasn't on a floppy, I
guess I'm just ignorant.

I suspect that we'll all have to get used to being very, very careful about
what /boot/System.map points to, and what kernels are called what in /boot
and so forth. I haven't tried booting a SCSI ZIP disk, but that might be 
one
possibility IMNSHO.

B.

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Colors INSIDE of windows?

2003-02-27 Thread Bill Freeman
Bill Sconce asks about things like application color choices.

Bill,

Traditionally, these things were X resources.  There's a
whole boodle of stuff somewhere in the X documntation about class name
versus item name, etc., and how to wildcard things so that you can
have all xterms do this, except that a certain xterm will do that, or
something of that ilk.  I can remember finding this stuff in the man
pages for the base X system, but you had to dig for it, and it was
hard to tell what they were saying unless you already knew what you
were looking for.

The resources are maintained in the X server, which is nice,
since apps that you run remotely with, say, xon will ask your server
for the settings that you prefer on that workstation.  xrdb is the
program that loads your .Xdefaults into the server.  It has to get run
when you start the server or log in to xdm, so it gets invoked in one
of your personal .x startup files, like .xclient, or .xinitrc, or if
you don't have a personal one, various vintages of the system-wide
startup files might try to look for ~/.Xdefaults for you.  I gave up
trying to follow the improvements before desktops replaced window
managers, so the exact path of the data is a matter for exploration.

Things like backgroundcolor are common enough, but not every
program documents their resource names well (at least in the online
documents that I've found).  It can be a chore to find the resource
name that will do what you want.  In the past I've found stuff in the
application's man or info pages.

Of course, the developer of any particular application is free
to ignore the resource system.  And some apps may have ways of
overriding the resource selections.  For example, emacs will follow
the resource selections, but you can also customize that stuff via
the .emacs file, the emacs internal customize system, and the command
line.  Which one wins when something gets specified in multiple palces
is up to the developer, but it usually isn't the X resources.

And if you're running Ximian, or one of the other modern
environments, who knows what they may have done to avoid giving the
user the dredful pain of having a customizable system.

Bill
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Re: 'make bzSomethingOtherThanOnAFloppy [was Re: Linux bootingproblems ]

2003-02-27 Thread bscott
On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, at 4:45pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Here's a stupid question.  Dell recently announced that they're getting
 rid of floppy drives in their systems.

  Just FYI, what they actually announced was that they are making the floppy
drive an option on their Precision Workstation line.  Of course, you can
expect other models and vendors to follow eventually.

 So, when this happens, and we're all living in a floppy-less world, how do
 then do things like 'make bzdisk' ?

  I haven't used make bzdisk in ages.  Floppies are so damn slow.

  When I build a new kernel for test, I drop it into /boot/ (along with any
needed support files), and define a new GRUB entry, GRUB makes it very easy
to switch kernels, or modify kernel options at boot.  (Before GRUB, I used
LILO, which was more restrictive but worked well enough.)  And I always kept
my stock kernel around, to boot in case of emergency.

  If I somehow manage to get the system so hosed my backup kernels don't
work (in which case, I'd probably be hosed even if I *had* used bzdisk),
I boot from CD and start repairing the system that way.

  If you really wanted some kind of functionality like bzdisk, I suppose
you could script something to automatically create a bootable CD-RW, but why
bother?  :)

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