Linux-Misc Digest #299, Volume #25 Mon, 31 Jul 00 20:13:04 EDT
Contents:
Re: Advice on cutting memory usage ("Andrew N. McGuire ")
Re: ***HELP! Process cannot KILL*** ("Andrew N. McGuire ")
Re: Which IDE linux C programers use? ("Andrew N. McGuire ")
Re: typing tutor for linux ("Andrew N. McGuire ")
Anyone reccommend some good books for newbie ("Vernon")
Re: Minor Amusement: bug in fortune(6) database (William R. Mattil)
Re: SSH2: Authentication fails (David Steuber)
Re: I feel bad for RH/Mandrake users.
INIT process hangs on boot ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: gcc-newbie question... (David Rysdam)
Re: Dynamic Languages on Linux? (Jerry L Kreps)
Re: Netscape cookies (Martin Brown)
Upgrading the Kernel Questions.. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Red Hat Linux 7.0 ("Colin W Holywell")
Re: ide0: unexpected interrupt, status=0x80 (Mat Kelcey)
Re: Printer doesn't work after kernel upgrade ("Andrew N. McGuire ")
Re: Upgrading the Kernel Questions.. (Florian E.J. Fruth)
Re: Linux for ancient RS6000? (John-Paul Stewart)
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From: "Andrew N. McGuire " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Advice on cutting memory usage
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 17:24:25 -0500
On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, Rasputin quoth:
$$ [EMAIL PROTECTED] <Andrew J. Perrin> wrote:
$$ >Greetings. I've got linux (Debian, kernel 2.0.38) running nicely on an
$$ >oldish laptop (Toshiba Portege 610CT), details will follow on setup
$$ >issues, of which there were quite few.
$$ >
$$ >My concern is that the system alone consumes most of the poor thing's
$$ >16M of RAM:
$$ >
$$ >achebe:/boot> free
$$ > total used free shared buffers cached
$$ >Mem: 14288 13172 1116 4564 324 10136
$$ >-/+ buffers/cache: 2712 11576
$$ >Swap: 32756 4108 28648
$$ >
$$ >I'm wondering if anyone can offer advice on what I could drop in order
$$ >to reduce memory usage; I've turned off junkbuster, postgreSQL, gpm,
$$ >isapnp, isdnutils, and samba, since I don't need them on the
$$ >laptop. Particularly, I'm wondering what xntpd and omniNames do for
$$ >me.
$$
$$ Turn them off and you'll probably find out ;)
$$ [hint: ntpd would be a network time protocol server]
$$
$$ do a ps ax and see what is actually running;
$$
$$ the 10Mb that is cached could theoretically be reused;
$$ the kernel is just keeping it handy. [Could be wrong there...?]
$$
$$ Ideally, you want all your memory in use, all the time;
$$ if there are no apps running, you want to keep recently used apps in
$$ memory in case someone starts them again. Saves a loooong trip to diskland...
$$
$$ Swapping stuff onto disk that doesn't need to be there yet is a Bad Thing
$$ usually. <looks at sigfile> Solaris should be the same?
Just to tack something on here.... You may also want to consider
recompiling your kernel and removing support for those things you
dont need, this may not make too much difference though. Also
check the output of lsmod and see if you are loading unneeded modules.
Again, probably wont make too much difference. Lastly, as suggested,
turn off those services you dont need. Not only will you use less
memory, but you will also harden your host to potential exploits in
the process, an added bonus.
Cheers,
anm
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Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
From: "Andrew N. McGuire " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ***HELP! Process cannot KILL***
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 17:27:25 -0500
On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, kaho quoth:
$$ Hi All,
$$
$$ I have a machine running Redhat Linux 6.2, when I try to reboot or
$$ halt my system, those process is failed to kill during it shutting down,
$$ can anybody help me to fix it.
$$
$$ Thanks for the kindly help and attention !!
If you have shut the machine down, I will guarantee you that there are
no processes running on it. However, my guarantee is probably not good
enough ad you don't even know me, so tell us what process it is?
Is it init?
anm
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From: "Andrew N. McGuire " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Which IDE linux C programers use?
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 17:37:32 -0500
On 30 Jul 2000, David Rysdam quoth:
$$ Robert Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
$$
$$ > etc. *Some* programmers use GnuEmacs or XEmacs -- both of these have
$$ > syntax highlighting and 'electric C' modes. There is also an interface
$$
$$ How do I turn this on in gnu emacs?
You can place these lines in your .emacs file:
(global-font-lock-mode t)
(setq-default font-lock-maximum-decoration t)
HTH && HAND,
anm
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From: "Andrew N. McGuire " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: typing tutor for linux
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 17:42:08 -0500
On 30 Jul 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] quoth:
$$ On Thu, 27 Jul 2000 11:09:06 GMT, Bob Koss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
$$ >
$$ >Has anyone found a decent typing tutor for Linux?
$$
$$ I got one a while ago, it's a unix typing tutor, but it's easy
$$ to compile for linux.
$$
$$ It's called 'typist' and I don't remember where I got it from.
Why, Sunsite, of course. Just kidding, but seriously the URL is:
ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/cai/typist-2.2b.tar.gz
HTH && HAND,
anm
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From: "Vernon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,uk.comp.os.linux,uklinux.help.newbies
Subject: Anyone reccommend some good books for newbie
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 23:59:23 +0100
Guys, I have mandrake 7.1, it is a bit of a pig to setup, so I figure maybe
a bit of reading wouldn't go amiss, anyone point me in the direction of some
good books, and or websites?
Many thanks
Vernon
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William R. Mattil)
Subject: Re: Minor Amusement: bug in fortune(6) database
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 17:27:59 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Daniel P. Katz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi.
>
> I am working on a RedHat 6.1 box, and recently found a minor
>bug in the fortune database. :-) It gave the following:
>
> A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!
> -- Wm. Shakespeare, "Henry VI"
>
>which is a mis-attribution since the line is (AFAIK and according to
>Bartlett's) from "Richard III" rather than "Henry VI". I wanted to
>send a bug report to this effect, but I couldn't figure out who
>maintains the 'fortune' program (at least the version found on RH6.1).
>The man page simply lists it as being "based on the NetBSD fortune
>1.4" and coming from "BSD Experimental 19 April 94 [May. 97]".
>
> Any ideas on where I might submit this bug?
>
>
>P.S. Yes, I *know* that this is completely imbecilic, but there's no
>point in letting mis-information propagate. :-) If the mis-attribution
>is the point of the joke, then it's too bloody subtle for me....
The *real* point we can make here is that the Red Hat folks really
should have caught this one. I cannot believe that this one made it
into an actual release. Sigh ... Red Hat is slipping. Two gentlemen
who are regular contributors to this group will be pleased to add
this to their list(s) of reasons to shun Red Hat.
But - on a serious note :^) you can always fix this. The data is there.
As for getting the sources fixed ? ....... Haven't a bloody clue.
<just kidding ... really!>
Bill
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Subject: Re: SSH2: Authentication fails
From: David Steuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 23:00:02 GMT
Screw it.
I'm switching to OpenSSH and will try to set that up.
--
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NRA Member | a hoploholic.
http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=hoplite&submit=Look+it+up
The problem with AI is that it has a mind of its own
--- Devon Miller
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: Re: I feel bad for RH/Mandrake users.
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 23:14:38 GMT
On Sun, 30 Jul 2000 22:15:10 -0400, Alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Robert Krawitz wrote:
>
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Prasanth A. Kumar) writes:
>>
>> > What should it say instead?
>>
>> It should print ASCII TeXt, not ASCII TeSt
>
>I am running RH 6.1
>The print out is as follow:
>
>/etc/passwd: ASCII text
> ^^^^
>It is TEST all right...
In Redhat 6.2 it is "text"
In Mandrake 7.1 it is "test"
[deletia]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: INIT process hangs on boot
Date: 31 Jul 2000 15:38:27 -0700
I'm trying to boot into my linux machine but I'm receiving the message:
INIT: no more processes in this runlevel
When the message displays, my machine locks up completely. Everything was
running fine until I switched to a different monitor, which is where the problem
began. Anoyone have an idea of what may be causing this? Any help is
appreciated.
Thanks,
-Ben
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From: David Rysdam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: gcc-newbie question...
Date: 31 Jul 2000 18:48:15 -0400
Geir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have just started to try out a little C-programming under Linux and I
> am playing around with some small programs just to "try things out". I
> wrote the following program which simply is supposed to displays a
> message if there is a PCI-bios presenet in the machine;
>
>
> #include <linux/pci.h>
>
> int main(){
> if (pcibios_present()) printf("PCI-bios found...");
> }
Cripes, if you are new to C (or gcc or Linux or any subset thereof)
don't start with THIS.
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From: Jerry L Kreps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Dynamic Languages on Linux?
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 18:19:53 -0500
An extendible threaded language with AI capability?
Seen it. Used it. Nearly 20 years ago.
It was called SAVVY. Natural Language interrogation, self learning, etc.
It was built on top of a dialect of FORTH, which is itself an extendible
threaded language. Had the inventor made it multi-user, multi-tasking I would
be using it today.
The AI front end had an interesting preprocessor which took the natural
language request ("Show me a list of all my custimers in Billings, MT that owe
me more than one thousadn bucks and are late paying.")
The typos wouldn't phase it. It would first take each word and sort the
letters, then remove redundant letters. It would hash these against the
dictionary of known words, etc....
I peaked my curosity in FORTH, which I found to be a delightful language.
JLK
On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>The future of languages.
>
>As you all know, the history of languages started with instruction
>codes for a machine. These were very basic operations like the
>following...
>
>Load 001 R1 <- put 1 in storage 1(register 1)
>Load 002 R2 <- put 2 in storage 2 (register 2)
>Add R1 R2 <- add storage 2 to storage 1 and put results in storage 1
>
>
>Of course, this is assembly. Which is translated to
>machine language..
>
>005 001 001
>005 002 002
>006 001 002
>
>(assuming 005 = Load, 006 = Add).
>
>Since machine language are just bytes, you can convert them to
>binary...
>
>00000101 00000001 00000001
>00000101 00000010 00000010
>00000110 00000001 00000010
>
>These are fed to the processor of the CPU (Central Processing Unit)
>which understand instruction of Load, Add, etc. and follows
>what the instructions tell it to do. Those individual bits trigger
>events in the transistors. So you are actually talking to transistors
>if you think low enough.
>
>
>Well. If you notice the above language follows a particular syntax,
>namely Operator Operand Operand. A B B
>If you construct a grammar tree for this... it looks like so...
>
>Program=>Statements
>Statements=>Statement Statements
>Statement=>Operator Operand Operand
>Operator=>Load | Add | Sub | Jump | etc
>Operand=>R1 | R2 | A1 | etc
>
>Of course, you can create the language of Basic using a different
>grammar set. C has its own, every language has one.
>
>But have you noticed something? All the languages in the world
>has a fixed grammar. The only one that comes close to being dynamic is
>Lisp. But even in lisp you must follow the recursive syntax, and you
>are bound to it for creating new functions.
>
>Well, I happen to have created a new language with a dynamic
>grammar tree. You can prune add grammar anywhere in it.
>The most scrary and interesting thing about it is that it
>has the potential to be alive "living". All it needs is a source for
>replacing any piece in the LHS (left side of the grammar tree), and a
>source for food (something to parse its grammar on, in
>computer language it is called the program). It can obtain both either
>manually (you feed it), or it can grab it from a source
>(like the internet webpages)
>
>It can live on the internet following webpages. It can understand html
>format (and its links). And it can understand text. So
>for example, it follows a link to a regular text (which has sentences
>with periods, etc), and it will eventually hit upon a http link
>and it can go there if it wants. It has rudimentary english
>grammar capability etc.
>
>But back to the dynamic nature of its grammar tree. Because it is
>dynamic, it can be pruned and spliced internally, new grammar trees can
>be created. It can understand C, C++, pascal, etc if you feed it that
>grammar.
>
>The only things that come up is endless recursion. A bonus is
>that when it has a choice of following two paths, it can use
>random path. If it gets it nowwhere (not settling down to a matching
>tree node) in a certain iteration, that prune of the tree is considered
>bad (a bad mutation), so it is removed (it dies). It can keep track of
>good paths for keeps. Eventually based on percentages, the random
>paths narrow down to useful grammars.
>
>Actions. Well what can it do? It can interpret languages and
>execute if it has a way to hook into the CPU and tell it to
>do stuff. From there it needs a starting point. You can feed
>it a program for it to interpret (like a perl language or a
>C program, or a html link), and off it goes following its
>intstructions. now and then it encounters a part it doesn't understand
>from
>its food. From then it has a choice of either incorporating the new
>tree token or discard it. (you can set the mutation rate).
>Note that it can be set to retain a lot.
>
>This thing can crawl to your machine and live there if it has
>hooks to your machine. For example... this is a path it would
>take if it wants to reproduce children...
>
>On my windows machine it is running on an Intel cpu (it understands
>this language). To migrate to another machine, it would need
>access to your machine's CPU. Most computers talk http and tcp/ip.
>Well, if the food is html pages, it has instant access to all the
>computers on the internet that has a webservers and from there
>it can find ftp servers (using ftp:// tokens). From its base machine
>it can ftp itself to public ftp servers as pure executables of
>itself for intel cpus. From there it has a chance to live again if
>someone downloads it and runs it.
>
>it just happens that it understand ftp commands
>
>start=>statements
>statements=>statement statements
>statement=>operator file
>operator=>put | get | etc
>file=>[a-z.]*
>
>There is the grammar for execution...
>
>response=>error | ok | etc
>error=>"cannot find"
>ok=>"file transferred.."
>etc.
>
>a new grammar is simply an extention of things it found but
>has no node to parse from in its internal grammar tree.
>Because it is a living grammar, it can utilize useful languages it
>parsed and incorporate that into its own grammar tree.
>
>a=b | newgrammar
>newgrammar=>(obtained from parsing food)
>
>eventually if this part of the tree is successful elsewhere it is
>retained (based on percentage, etc)
>
>If it cannot have children, then it can just live on one machine and
>basically grow and mutate itself. It can understand everthing
>eventually. Even wave files (sound files) have a strict structure with
>a header, begin wave sound and end file. html has <html> for beginning
>and </html> for ending. C executables have Data Segment, Address
>Segment, where to load it into memory, etc. C source
>have main(argc, argcv) etc. So it can be in a growing mode, or
>execution mode. It can execute code (any language, if you feed it the
>grammar, or it finds out on its own) or run native cpu code, or it can
>just grow, understand the grammar for some new food it got and create
>grammar trees from it to extend itself.
>
>Here is an interesting website: http://www.edepot.com
>There is a non-living version of the grammar there
>(It was useful as a glossary, so I made it live on disucssion
>forum board pages, but it is non-living, so you must manually
>give it new grammar by inputing into the input box.).
>You can try it out on the discussion forums. A more
>direct link is http://www.edepot.com/phl.html
>Check out the eGlossary and add a grammar
>(and then visit a discussion forum
>and create a message the eGlossary can or understand)
>(you may need to manually put a grammar in)
>
>The living mode still working on. (I'm using it
>as a backend as a dynamic webpage language).
>
>
>
>Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
>Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Brown)
Subject: Re: Netscape cookies
Date: 31 Jul 2000 23:27:37 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
sandrews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>(Prasanth A. Kumar) wrote:
>> "Ed Lewis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>>> I am running netscape 4.73 on a Linux machine and I am trying to find
>>> all of the files that are used to track where I go on the Internet.
>>> Internet Explorer uses a cookie file which also has an Index.dat file
>>> to keep track of the cookies and then in the Temporary Internet Files
>>> under Content.IE5 there is also an Index.Dat file that tracks
>>> everywhere you go on the Internet. These index.dat files have to be
>>> deleted from within DOS. They can not be deleted in Windose.
>>> I use Linux (Caldera and Corel versions) on two machines and, so
>>> far, I
>>> have not been able to find any files of this type on either system. Any
>>> help will be appreciated..
>>
>> The cookies are kept in ~/.netscape/cookies. Make that file read only if
>> you don't wan't Netscape creating any more cookies.
>>
>
>Better yet, use ln to link to to /dev/null
>
That does work, but the problem with a link is, sometimes (banking, for
instance) you can't use a site without cookies, and dealing with a link is
a pain. 'Edit->Preferences->Advanced' works better. I've read that the
new IE has/will have(?) a similiar interface, and they're catching a lot
of heat from the e-commerce people.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Upgrading the Kernel Questions..
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 23:23:24 GMT
Hi,
I'm currently using Mandrake Linux with kernel version 2.2.13
I would like to upgrade to the latest kernel (2.2.16). Since this will
be my first time doing it, is there anyone that can explain how to do
it? I'd very much appreciate it, or if there is some HOWTO or such, I'd
like to know.
Thanks,
Gary
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: "Colin W Holywell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Red Hat Linux 7.0
Crossposted-To:
linux.redhat,linux.redhat.devel,linux.redhat.misc,redhat.general,redhat.hardware.arch.intel
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 23:39:01 GMT
In article <8m1e2d$5ckul$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Sludge"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Anyone have a timeframe for when it will be out? (an estimate at least)
> And are they planning on designing it for the 2.4.x kernel and XFree86
> 4.x?
>
>
>
The beta is out now. It hax x 4.01, kernel 2.2.17, Gnome 1.21, kde 1.9x, and some
other goodies. But id wait for 7.1, RH x.0 releases tend to _very_ buggy.
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From: Mat Kelcey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: ide0: unexpected interrupt, status=0x80
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 23:40:17 GMT
something very similiar to me happened on my oldest drive causes it had
a heap of corrupted sectors. a forced full check of the partitions
located the bad blocks or whatever and removed them.
is the drive old? run the fullest check you can over it, maybe something
will turn up?
good luck anyways.
mat
Yumin Lee wrote:
> I have a desktop Pentium III running
> Redhat 6.2. Recently the machine hangs
> after idling for 5 or 6 hours, with the
> following error messages that repeat
> ad infinitum:
>
> ide0: unexpected interrupt, status=0x80, count=xxxx
> ide0: reset timed-out, status=0x80
> hda:status timeout, status=0x80 { Busy }
> end_request: I/O error, dev 03:01 (hda), sector 2097184
> hda: drive not ready for command
> EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,1)): ext2_write_inode: untable to read
> inode block
> - inode=123913, block=262148
> hda: status timeout, status=0x80 { Busy }
> hda: drive not ready for command
>
> I have a Seagate ST38410A (UDMA 66, 8623 MB)
> HD. Also, I tried disabling the power
> management functions in the bios, but that
> didn't help the problem.
>
> Any ideas? Any help will be greatly appreciated ...
>
> Yumin Lee
> My e-mail is yuminlee -at- cc -dot- ee -dot- ntu -dot- edu -dot- tw
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux
From: "Andrew N. McGuire " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Printer doesn't work after kernel upgrade
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 18:55:35 -0500
On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, Nick quoth:
$$ I'm somewhat of a Linux newbie and I recently compiled my first kernel
$$ and my printer (Epson Stylus Color 740) is not working anymore. I was
$$ originally using the stock 2.2.14 kernel provided by Red Hat 6.2. I
$$ compiled 2.2.15 to get support for DVD file systems for my DVD rom and I
$$ got that working okay but my printer no longer works with the new
$$ kernel. I've tried all kinds of different options in the config and
$$ recompiled at least 5 or 6 times. Parallel port, Auto-probe parallel
$$ port, parrallel printer support are all enabled but the printer is still
$$ not getting detected. It still works fine when I boot back to 2.2.14.
$$ Is there some other config option I may be missing? Something else that
$$ could cause this?
Do you have an:
/lib/modules/2.2.15/misc/lp.o
module? That may be you problem, as root try 'insmod lp'.
HTH,
anm
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From: Florian E.J. Fruth <fejf@gmx*/dev/null*.de>
Subject: Re: Upgrading the Kernel Questions..
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 01:57:10 +0200
In article <8m51p7$mnp$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
says...
> Hi,
>
> I'm currently using Mandrake Linux with kernel version 2.2.13
> I would like to upgrade to the latest kernel (2.2.16). Since this will
> be my first time doing it, is there anyone that can explain how to do
> it? I'd very much appreciate it, or if there is some HOWTO or such, I'd
> like to know.
>
> Thanks,
> Gary
at the moment i don't know a howto but:
first download a kernel from www.kernel.org ;)
change to your /usr/src directory. the you should see the current kernel
sources. (linux, linux-2.2.13mdk, ... or something similar). the linux
dir should be only a link to one of the other dirs. so remove this dir
(rm linux) and unpack your kernel in this directory.
normally the kernel sources are now in the /usr/src/linux directory. i
suggest that u rename it like the others
(e.g. mv linux linux-2.4.0-test5) and than create a new symbolic link
(e.g. ln -s linux-2.4.0-test5 linux). than change to the linux dir and
enter
make menuconfig
u can now setup your kernel...
if finished type:
make dep clean bzlilo modules modules_install
now the kernel compilation should start. if finished your kernel should
be placed in your /boot dir - if not it's in your / dir. if this happens:
move the "system.map" and the "vmlinuz" files in your /boot directory and
type
lilo
that's it...
fejf
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the backup of my harddisk only takes the half time it
did yesterday. i started to pipe it to /dev/null
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From: John-Paul Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Linux for ancient RS6000?
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2000 00:03:35 GMT
fred smith wrote:
>
> My employer has an ancient (circa 1992) IBM RS6000 box that has lost
> one of its (gigantic ;-) 400 meg SCSI drives. They're thinking of not
> fixing it due to its age. If they dump it, I may stand outside the
> window and try to catch it as it goes by!
>
> Can anyone tell me if there's a Linux anywhere (or maybe a *bsd) that
> will run on this thing? It's NOT a PowerPC machine, it's IBM's old
> RISC processor from before the days of the PowerPC.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Fred
> --
> ---- Fred Smith -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------------------
> The Lord detests the way of the wicked
> but he loves those who pursue righteousness.
> ----------------------------- Proverbs 15:9 (niv) -----------------------------
That would make it a POWER processor (current RS6000s use PowerPC for the
low-end and POWER 3 at the high-end) and AFAIK there is no Linux version for
your processor. Sorry.
J-P Stewart
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