On 21-Jul-99 Rob Compton wrote:
> Hi guys, I have just had a chance to sit down and take another look at this
> linux system I am building to take over the running of the GB7ZPU bbs.
>
A rave from the grave! Nice to see that you have finally been converted. I
knew you would come round in the end.
> I now see that, from reading the messages on this list, I have the wrong
> ax25-utils for the 2.0.36 kernel that I have - the one I've got is
> ax25_utils-2.1.42a-3.i386.rpm, and I see that I should have an earlier
> version.
No. That is exactly the correct version for 2.0.36 or 37 and I would stick
with that to start with if you are running Redhat 5.2. The 2.2.10 kernels
will give you nothing significantly extra in the short term for running a BBS.
These utilities also work fine on my 2.2.10 kernel as well.
>
> My dilemma is: I have 2.2.10 kernel source on my win98 machine's hard disk,
> all 14Mb of it. The linux box is running RH5.2. As a bit of a newbie at
> linux, can I compile the 2.2.10 kernel with RH5.2, or will I need to get
> the
> RH6 stuff to go with it? If I CAN compile 2.2.10 with RH5.2, can I use the
> ax25 utils that I have "in stock", or will I need yet another version?
You either need to grab all the updates from the kernel-2.2 directory of
updates.redhat.com or else install RedHat 6.0. Personally right now, I would
instead load down the 2.0.37 kernel source from ftp.uk.kernel.org and compile
that up to your requirements and leave 2.2.10 strictly alone until you have
2.0.37 up and working.
>
> And though off topic, but related to my woes, can I hook up a ZIP drive to
> Linux? I have looked through the configuration when compiling kernel, but
> can't find ZIP in there anywhere. If I can get the ZIP hooked up to the
> Linux box, then I can transfer the new kernel source easily, in a zip ;-)
>
Yes, both IDE and SCSI Zip drives work fine. There are also some funky
utilities about that fiddle with the internals - but you don't need these for
normal operations.
> I still think that the docs for Linux need to be written so a dummy can
> understand them. The docs I have found (HOWTO's etc) all seem to be aimed
> at
> university professors who now linux so well that they don't need the doc's
> anyway!
Agreed. But there are some good books about.
Dirk G1TLH
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Dirk-Jan Koopman, Tobit Computer Co Ltd
At the source of every error which is blamed on the computer you will find
at least two human errors, including the error of blaming it on the computer.
