Re: [expert] Adding a disk, insmod placement, moving /var

2000-11-20 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach Ran Hooper am Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 04:04:49PM -0800: > the aic7xxx it loads fine. What am I doing wrong here? run depmod -a Alexander Skwar -- How to quote: http://learn.to/quote (german) http://quote.6x.to (english) Homepage: http://www.digitalprojects.com | http://www.dp

Re: [expert] Adding a disk, insmod placement, moving /var

2000-11-18 Thread BillK
Run "depmod -av " and look at the results to see that the modules you are interested in have been processed. "man depmod or insmod or modprobe" for more info. Most distro's run depmod automaticly on bootup. Also, get rid of the module file you created - sometimes the wrong one may get picked up

RE: [expert] Adding a disk, insmod placement, moving /var - SOLVED

2000-11-18 Thread Ran Hooper
urday, November 18, 2000 4:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [expert] Adding a disk, insmod placement, moving /var About adding that scsi adapter: insmod aic7xxx and modprobe aic7xxx works fine. I get an error message when I run modprobe that says 'Note: conf.modules is more recent t

RE: [expert] Adding a disk, insmod placement, moving /var

2000-11-18 Thread Ran Hooper
About adding that scsi adapter: insmod aic7xxx and modprobe aic7xxx works fine. I get an error message when I run modprobe that says 'Note: conf.modules is more recent than modules.dep' but if I follow modprobe with the aic7xxx it loads fine. What am I doing wrong here? I added line 4 to my conf

Re: [expert] Adding a disk, insmod placement, moving /var

2000-11-09 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach Ran Hooper am Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 08:31:53AM -0800: > Cool, now where do I put insmod on boot so that I can get /var mounted > before any of the apps want to use it? Nowhere, because that's not necessary. Linux/Mandrake isn't using insmod, modprobe is used here. Just add the entries

Re: [expert] Adding a disk, insmod placement, moving /var

2000-11-09 Thread Buchan Milne
You can put it in /etc/rc.d/rc.local, but I see there is a /etc/rc.d/rc.modules, which loads all modules in /etc/modules. SO I guess the answer is put the module in /etc/modules. Mine currently just has: vfat The other method of course is to put the right lines in /etc/conf.modules or /etc/modul

RE: [expert] Adding a disk, insmod placement, moving /var

2000-11-09 Thread Ran Hooper
Cool, now where do I put insmod on boot so that I can get /var mounted before any of the apps want to use it? Regards, Ran Hooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.

Re: [expert] Adding a disk, insmod placement, moving /var

2000-11-09 Thread Buchan Milne
And diskdrake can make and format ReiserFS, and (maybe only when you're in advanced mode) has an option "write fstab" Buchan Ran Hooper wrote: > > diskdrake is the gui disk partitioning program you see when you first > install mandrake. It can also be run from x. > [snip] > > 6) Run diskdrak

RE: [expert] Adding a disk, insmod placement, moving /var

2000-11-08 Thread Ran Hooper
: Re: [expert] Adding a disk, insmod placement, moving /var So sprach Ran Hooper am Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 09:32:10PM -0800: > 4) tar czpf /vardata.tar.gz /var -z isn't necesssary if you have enough freespace in / I would do it a little different, but your approach wasn't wrong though.

Re: [expert] Adding a disk, insmod placement, moving /var

2000-11-08 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach Ran Hooper am Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 09:32:10PM -0800: > 4) tar czpf /vardata.tar.gz /var -z isn't necesssary if you have enough freespace in / I would do it a little different, but your approach wasn't wrong though. 1) turn off computer 2) install hardware 3) turn on 4) add alias s