Re: Initialization process in Red Hat

2000-08-29 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, Nitebirdz wrote: >I'd really appreciate if you guys can help me clarify the initialization >process in Red Hat Linux, since I'd like to start "studying" the scripts >to learn something along the way. Here is the way I see it: > > > >BIOS --> MBR (LILO) --> (initrd) --> kerne

Re: installation problem

2000-08-29 Thread Tony Nugent
On Tue Aug 29 2000 at 22:22, Forrest Taylor wrote: > I believe that LILO must be installed under the 1024th cylinder. You may want > to look into that. No, not lilo. Most BIOSs cannot boot from anything beyond cylinder 1024. It is the kernel image in /boot that is needed in an area below cyl

Re: rawhide: kudzu-0.68-1 fails to compile

2000-08-29 Thread Stephen C. Biggs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 29 Aug 2000, at 0:39, Mike A. Harris wrote: > On Mon, 28 Aug 2000, Nitebirdz wrote: > > >Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 13:51:17 -0500 (CDT) > >From: Nitebirdz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII > >

Re: rawhide: kudzu-0.68-1 fails to compile

2000-08-29 Thread John Summerfield
> "Mike A. Harris" wrote: > > Because I have done so for several years with no problems until > > last week when I had a "rpm --rebuild" delete several > > subdirectories on my filesystem during "%clean" stage. RPM > > should IMHO do anything it does in a chroot()'d jail. Making a > > user calle

Re: installation problem

2000-08-29 Thread Forrest Taylor
I believe that LILO must be installed under the 1024th cylinder. You may want to look into that. Yuzz wrote: > Use partition magic first in order to create and delete partition... > > Li Bing wrote: > > > Hello there: > > I have an installation problem. > > > > My computer equipment i

Re: installation problem

2000-08-29 Thread Yuzz
Use partition magic first in order to create and delete partition... Li Bing wrote: > Hello there: > I have an installation problem. > > My computer equipment is PIII-600, 128MB RAM, 27GB HD, 32MB Display > card. > > The hard drive was partitioned into 2 partitions before I was tryi

installation problem

2000-08-29 Thread Li Bing
Hello there: I have an installation problem. My computer equipment is PIII-600, 128MB RAM, 27GB HD, 32MB Display card. The hard drive was partitioned into 2 partitions before I was trying to install RedHat 6.2, and the partition sizes are 2GB(FAT) and 15GB(NTFS). I planned to parti

Re: rawhide: kudzu-0.68-1 fails to compile

2000-08-29 Thread Ivan Jager
"Mike A. Harris" wrote: > Because I have done so for several years with no problems until > last week when I had a "rpm --rebuild" delete several > subdirectories on my filesystem during "%clean" stage. RPM > should IMHO do anything it does in a chroot()'d jail. Making a > user called "rpm" and

netcfg-2.36-1 fails to run

2000-08-29 Thread Svante Signell
Red Hat Linux netcfg 2.31 Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000 Red Hat, Inc. Redistributable under the terms of the GNU General Public License Traceback (innermost last): File "/usr/lib/rhs/netcfg/netcfg.py", line 1963, in ? win = WindowFrame(Toplevel()) File "/usr/lib/rhs/netcfg/ne

Workaround for switchdesk-3.4-1

2000-08-29 Thread Svante Signell
switchdesk-3.4-1.src.rpm: fails to build checking for Qt... configure: error: Qt (snapshot >= Qt 2.1) (headers and libraries) not found. Please check your installation! For more details about this problem, look at the end of config.log. Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.59236 (%build) Instal

Re: Initialization process in Red Hat

2000-08-29 Thread Michael Redinger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Well, actually the module part (depmod et al.) is done in rc.sysinit, rc.local is run at the end (S99local) and the daemons/services are run from the scripts in rc[runlevel].d. As of initrd, the description in the kernel tree (Documentation/initrd

Initialization process in Red Hat

2000-08-29 Thread Nitebirdz
I'd really appreciate if you guys can help me clarify the initialization process in Red Hat Linux, since I'd like to start "studying" the scripts to learn something along the way. Here is the way I see it: BIOS --> MBR (LILO) --> (initrd) --> kernel --> init --> daemons/services

Re: rpm and AMD K6

2000-08-29 Thread John Summerfield
> > >> Edit /usr/lib/rpm/rpmrc... it is more or less self explanatory. > > > > > >That's error-prone; it gets replaced whenever I upgrade rpm, and I seem to > be > > >forced to do that altogether TOO often lately. > > > > When I edit files like that, I then do a "chattr +i filename" and > > it