Red Hat and DHCP (was: Laptop installation)

2000-02-09 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Kenneth E. Lussier wrote: > If you are installing the system using dynamic IP addresses (DHCP or > BOOTP), then yes, pump would be running. Pump took the place of dhcpc as > of RH 6.1 I believe. Red Hat started including pump with RHL 6.0. They still include dhcpcd (the DH

Re: Laptop installation

2000-02-09 Thread Kenneth E. Lussier
If you are installing the system using dynamic IP addresses (DHCP or BOOTP), then yes, pump would be running. Pump took the place of dhcpc as of RH 6.1 I believe. And, yes, there are problems with pump. Not just in RH6.1, but in 6.0 as well. In a few docs that I have read, it is highly recommended

Re: Laptop installation

2000-02-09 Thread Bobnhlinux
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > [disclaimer: I missed the beginning of this thread somehow, so if this > post makes no sense, that's why! :)] > > If you have it on your system, I think you can use openvt to start a copy > of say, bash, on a virtual console. I'm not sure if this will actually >

Re: Laptop installation

2000-02-08 Thread Derek Martin
On Mon, 7 Feb 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thanks, but ps isn't available at that point, even if it might be installed. > We don't know where to find it. And the processes most likely are > not running, but waiting on something. If we only knew what that > something was. I never saw this happe

Re: Laptop installation

2000-02-07 Thread Kenneth E. Lussier
OK, Now I can answer this one. Two ofthe laptops had 3c589D NICs and the other one has a 3Com FE574B 10/100 NIC. Kenny Thomas Charron wrote: >Hrm, I hadn't tried using HTTP.What PCMCIA NIC cards did you use? ** To unsubscribe from this lis

Re: Laptop installation

2000-02-07 Thread Ferenc Tamas Gyurcsan
Hi, >Thanks, but ps isn't available at that point, even if it might be installed. Do you have proc filesystem? Probably not though. I only installed debian and slackware so far. Well, a couple of days ago I assisted during a redhat 6.1 install, but it never waited for anything. The only problem wa

Re: Laptop installation

2000-02-07 Thread Bobnhlinux
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Hi, > >Any ideas on how to see what processes are causing the delay? > ctrl+alt+F#, root, ps axuw |more? It should work. > Ferenc > Thanks, but ps isn't available at that point, even if it might be installed. We don't know where to find it. And the processes m

RE: Laptop installation

2000-02-07 Thread Lussier, Kenneth
bruary 07, 2000 12:00 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Laptop installation > > Quoting "Lussier, Kenneth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Actually, I have done 3 network installs on laptops using RH 6.1. The > FTP > > install never works for me

RE: Laptop installation

2000-02-07 Thread Thomas Charron
Quoting "Lussier, Kenneth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Actually, I have done 3 network installs on laptops using RH 6.1. The FTP > install never works for me because unlike 6.0, you can't do a non-anonymous > FTP. I ended mounting the CD on a system under the /home/httpd/html/rh > directory ( I created

RE: Laptop installation

2000-02-07 Thread Lussier, Kenneth
oftware) in life are FREE" > -Original Message- > From: Thomas Charron [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, February 07, 2000 9:37 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Laptop installation > > Quoting PK Whelan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I'm

Re: Laptop installation

2000-02-07 Thread Ferenc Tamas Gyurcsan
Hi, >Any ideas on how to see what processes are causing the delay? ctrl+alt+F#, root, ps axuw |more? It should work. Ferenc ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the *body* (*not* the su

Re: Laptop installation

2000-02-07 Thread Thomas Charron
Quoting PK Whelan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I'm trying to install RH6.1 on a 486 laptop with 16-bit pcmcia slots via > http. I myself tried and tried, and what I finally gave up and decided was this: Under RH 6.1, you can do a network install normally, and you can do a normal PCMCIA install of

Re: Laptop installation

2000-02-07 Thread Bobnhlinux
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I used pcmcia.img to boot. I get prompted for "driver disk" not sure what > disk that is. I tried the pcmica disk itself as well as the other images > and even compiling the pcmcia modules on another linux box and putting > them on a floppy. I checked RH Install Gui

Laptop installation

2000-02-07 Thread PK Whelan
Hi, I'm trying to install RH6.1 on a 486 laptop with 16-bit pcmcia slots via http. Although I've installed linux on pc's many times, this is my first laptop install. So here's my problem: I used pcmcia.img to boot. I get prompted for "driver disk" not sure what disk that is. I tried the pcmica di