Linux-Setup Digest #629, Volume #19 Fri, 15 Sep 00 20:13:11 EDT
Contents:
Re: LILO and Win 2000 (Andy Kinsey)
Re: Help with DualBoot Problem Please (Chris Birchall)
Re: Clueless newbie can't install modem ("Ray")
mount, samba, and permissions (Skip)
Re: tape problem - Cannot detect End of Tape (Jonathan)
Re: Modem/COM setting problems (John Todd)
Any idea for a newbie Linuxier?? ("li")
newbee question (Dale Ryon Wilhelm)
Re: PLIP Errors ("pl")
Linux 6.2: LILO question ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Clueless newbie can't install modem (Josef Oswald)
Re: Setting up printer (BJ200) (Josef Oswald)
cannot logon RH 5.1 LINUX ("Duane Fernandes")
Re: monitor frequency out of range ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: linux message: eth0 (Karl Heyes)
Re: IP Difficulties. Long live linux gurus! (Akira Yamanita)
Re: Linux 6.2: LILO question (Chimpy)
too many objects after rebuilding kernel!! ("A derelict Engineer")
Re: Specific ppp problem (Karl Heyes)
switching distros (john michael dodd)
Missing /usr/include/bits/linux/errno.h ("Bill A.")
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From: Andy Kinsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LILO and Win 2000
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 17:28:00 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've just installed Win 2000 and Redhat 6.2 on a new
> machine and have read a lot of different opinions about
> what to do with LILO. During the installation I chose not to
> install LILO and am booting Linux from a floppy but I don't
> want to always have to do that. On my previous machine, which
> had NT 4 and an earlier version of Redhat, I put LILO onto
> the MBR on a wing and a prayer and it worked. Should I use
> the same conf file on 2000. Any suggestions / example
> lilo.conf files?
>
> TIA
>
> -Gary
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
Gary,
I have 3 operating systems running on my machine: Win98, Win2K Server,
and RedHat 6.0. LILO is in the MBR, so when the machine starts, I get
the LILO prompt. If I boot to DOS, I then get the NT loader screen which
allows me to select either Win98 or Win2K. I've been told that RedHat
specifically advises AGAINST doing this, but I don't know why. The
biggest downside to this is the fact that if you reinstall any Micro$oft
products AFTER installing RedHat's LILO, you will wipe LILO out of the
boot sector. I did this once, and to reinstall LILO, I re-ran RedHat
Linux setup and told it to upgrade. It re-wrote LILO to the MBR. I'm
sure there's an easier way to do this with the emergency boot floppy
(you DID make the floppy, right??? :-) )
Andy
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From: Chris Birchall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Help with DualBoot Problem Please
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 22:22:26 +0100
The following site may help you to dual-boot whilst avoiding Lilo. It's
what I used to dual-boot Mandrake and Win95:
http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/osbooting/loadlin_win.html
Hope it helps,
Chris.
JDoe wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm running Redhat 6.2 on /dev/hda1 and I have win98 installed on
> /dev/sda1. Both boot up properly on their own.
>
> However, I'm trying to put the option into LILO so that I can boot
> windows also from the lilo prompt.
>
> Here is my lilo.conf
>
> boot=/dev/hda
> map=/boot/map
> install=/boot/boot.b
> prompt
> timeout=50
> default=linux
>
> image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-5.0
> label=linux
> initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.14-5.0.img
> read-only
> root=/dev/hda1
> append="mem=128M"
>
> other=/dev/sda1
> label=win
> table=/dev/sda
> loader=/boot/chain.b
>
> Linux will boot up fine, but Windows will not. All I get is a message
> saying "Please insert system disk... press any key when ready"
>
> I've tried lots of other settings, including specifying "linear" in
> the conf file and remapping BIOS drives like below, but nothing seems
> to work.
>
> map-drive=0x80
> to=0x81
> map-drive=0x81
> to=0x80
>
> I've read the man pages and all the how-tos I can get my hands on,
> as well as every relavent message posted in the NGs
> but my setup is even simpler than others and I can't get this to work!
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks
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From: "Ray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Clueless newbie can't install modem
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 21:32:03 GMT
Is there an FAQ for this group? If so, it would be nice of you to
post it or a link. The modem is supposed to be UART which, from what
I understand, should have no trouble under any *nix based OS. If
there is a test to verify the UART portion, that may help.
btw.... at first I thought the 'real name' mention was not having a
3COM modem :-)
"Josef Oswald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
| Does on the Modem Package say it can be used under LINUX?
| A look at the Homage www.aceex.com ( looking at a couple of the
modems)
| told me they are most likely Win modems ( and they can't work under
| Linux only in some rare cases.......)
|
| Ps: :-) Some People prefer a _real_ name when one posts......
<snipped message>
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From: Skip <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: mount, samba, and permissions
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 14:40:25 -0700
I want users to be able to mount a smbfs share, but I can't seem to
get it to work.
Here's some stuff that illustrates my problems:
[skip@Linux skip]$ ls /mnt/terminator -l
total 16
drwsrwsrwx 2 root root 4096 Apr 7 15:23 c/
drwsrwsrwx 2 root root 4096 Apr 8 08:26 d/
drwsrwsrwx 2 root root 4096 Apr 8 08:26 dvd/
drwsrwsrwx 2 root root 4096 Apr 8 08:26 zip/
[skip@Linux skip]$ which mount
/bin/mount
[skip@Linux skip]$ ls /bin/mount -l
-rwsr-sr-x 1 root root 53620 Sep 13 1999 /bin/mount*
[skip@Linux skip]$ cat /etc/fstab
//terminator/c /mnt/terminator/c smbfs user,intr,noauto
//terminator/d /mnt/terminator/d smbfs user,intr,noauto
//terminator/zip /mnt/terminator/zip smbfs user,intr,noauto
//terminator/dvd /mnt/terminator/dvd smbfs user,intr,noauto
/dev/hda6 / ext2 defaults 1 1
/dev/hda1 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,ro 0 0
/dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy ext2 noauto,owner 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
[skip@Linux skip]$ mount //terminator/c
[skip@Linux skip]$ Password:
session setup failed: ERRDOS - ERRnoaccess (Access denied.)
SMB connection failed
(these next three lines are all typed as one command - word wrapping
makes it look funny)
[skip@Linux skip]$ mount -t smbfs -o
username=Administrator,password=#####
/terminator/c /mnt/terminator/c
mount: only root can do that
[skip@Linux skip]$ mount //terminator/c ###### <- password here
mount: only root can do that
(### masks real password)
terminator is a win2000 machine. I have share permissions set to full
read/write access for everyone (bad idea, i know, but I just want to
get it going). root has no problems. What can I do to fix this?
====================================================
Once I get that going, I have one more related problem. I want
certain users to have read/write accesss to the NT share, but for some
reason, only root seems to have that capability as well. Right now
users can browse the NT share, but not write to it.
[skip@Linux c]$ pwd
/mnt/terminator/c
[skip@Linux c]$ touch test.txt
touch: test.txt: Permission denied
[skip@Linux c]$ su
Password:
[root@Linux c]# touch test.txt
[skip@Linux c]$ ls test.txt -l
-rwsr-sr-x 1 root root 0 Sep 13 1999 test.txt*
How do I fix it so that skip can write to the drive?
Skip
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From: Jonathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: tape problem - Cannot detect End of Tape
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 21:55:37 GMT
In article <8pts2b$fac$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In article <8ptgu3$1tu$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Jonathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > You might try 'ps -AH' to list the processes in hierarchical order
and
> > kill -9 the parent process of tar.
> >
> > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> > Before you buy.
> >
>
> Thx. I tried that. Its parent was "bash" which I could kill. But the
> tar task is still there (no parents). Output of ps -AH | grep tar
> 11380 ? 00:00:00 tar
>
> Arun
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
>
I don't think you are going to be able to kill the process. The "D"
indicates it is in uniterruptible sleep mode, usually IO ('info ps'). I
can't find any resource that explains how to remove such a process
without rebooting. :(
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Todd)
Subject: Re: Modem/COM setting problems
Date: 15 Sep 2000 21:44:24 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Does your machine really have 5 serial ports? I don't think so.
One of my Zoom modem manuals defines the higher Com port numbers:
com5=com3,irq2
com6=com4,irq2
com7=com3,irq5
com8=com4,irq5
which indicates they are only a notational convenience.
On Thu, 14 Sep 2000 22:13:33 -0400, Neil Castle
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi
>
>I have recently loaded Mandrake 7.1 onto a separate partition of my PIII 866
>with Win 98 as the other OS. My modem is hooked up to Com 5. There is no
>obvious
>equivalent to this COM setting in the configuration of M7.1. Is it possible
>to configure a com5 setting using Konsole or by other means? Since I am a
>newbie at Linux any help would be appreciated.
>
>Finally, my modem is a US robotics 56K Voice PCI. Is there any known
>problems using this modem with Linux?
>
>Thanks in advance
>
>Neil A. Castle
>
>
>
--
_____________________
The lap of Linuxury
|<de in RH6
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From: "li" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Any idea for a newbie Linuxier??
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 01:31:21 +0300
I am looking forward for infos about printer set up.
I tried the on line manuals but the result is always negative .
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From: Dale Ryon Wilhelm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: newbee question
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 15:30:06 -0700
I am having trouble setting up a networked redhat box...
whenever I telnet to the box I get connection refused. Is there something
that I am missing????
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From: "pl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: PLIP Errors
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 22:36:42 GMT
In article <8pt4ht$i9t$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> PLIP Errors
>
> After doing a full installed of redhat 6.2, if I try to install the plip
> module but using the following command I get errors
>
> command:
> 'insmod plip'
>
> error:
> /lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/net/plip.o: unresolved symbol
> parport_enumerate_Rdcb625ab
> /lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/net/plip.o: unresolved symbol
> parport_claim_R46138e04
> /lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/net/plip.o: unresolved symbol
> parport_register_device_Ra78805aa
> /lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/net/plip.o: unresolved symbol
> parport_unregister_device_R857406d1
> /lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/net/plip.o: unresolved symbol
> parport_release_Re207d4f8
>
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.
did you try doing a "depmod -a" to configure module dependencies, and then a
"modprobe plip" rather than insmod? That should load the required parallel port
modules first, and then plip.(IIRC, RH runs depmod at every boot, so you can
probably just go straight to using "modprobe plip" and skip the depmod step)
If you want to do it manually, you'll have to "insmod" the appropriate parallel
port modules before the plip module.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.questions
Subject: Linux 6.2: LILO question
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 22:32:57 GMT
Hi, I am a newbie trying to install Linux 6.2 on my machine.
I have completed installing the program but I when I reboot,
it does not proceed! I only get
LI and it get's stuck!!
What do I do from here??
Thanks!
AA
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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Subject: Re: Clueless newbie can't install modem
From: Josef Oswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 22:47:58 GMT
"Ray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Is there an FAQ for this group? If so, it would be nice of you to
> post it or a link. The modem is supposed to be UART which, from what
> I understand, should have no trouble under any *nix based OS. If
> there is a test to verify the UART portion, that may help.
Sorry I would have to read it up myself first, but maybe there is
modem-to or the like around :-)
I personally do use a 3Com NIC :-)
>
> btw.... at first I thought the 'real name' mention was not having a
> 3COM modem :-)
:-) No I did not mean that.... I think in such news-group once could
use the real name ...
take care :-)
>
> "Josef Oswald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> | Does on the Modem Package say it can be used under LINUX?
> | A look at the Homage www.aceex.com ( looking at a couple of the
> modems)
> | told me they are most likely Win modems ( and they can't work under
> | Linux only in some rare cases.......)
> |
> | Ps: :-) Some People prefer a _real_ name when one posts......
> <snipped message>
>
>
--
Josef Oswald [EMAIL PROTECTED]
registered-linux-user # 13.818 at http://counter.li.org
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Setting up printer (BJ200)
From: Josef Oswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 22:55:28 GMT
Hi:-)
would this link help?
http://sdb.suse.de/cgi-bin/sdbsearch_en.cgi?
"Rob Sykes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi all,
>
> Am trying to setup my printer (still) under Suse 6.4
>
> The installation seems to work fine but nothing prints
> All queues, etc appear to be running as they should
>
> I found these messages at the end of /var/log/messages
>
>
> Sep 14 20:55:44 linux kernel: i810_configure<6>parport0: PC-style at 0x378
> [SPP,PS2]
> Sep 14 20:55:44 linux kernel: parport_probe: failed
> Sep 14 20:55:44 linux kernel: parport0: no IEEE-1284 device present.
> Sep 14 20:55:44 linux kernel: lp0: using parport0 (polling).
> Sep 14 20:55:51 linux kernel: lp0 off-line
>
>
> Any clues, anyone ?
>
> Rob Sykes>
--
Josef Oswald [EMAIL PROTECTED]
registered-linux-user # 13.818 at http://counter.li.org
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From: "Duane Fernandes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: cannot logon RH 5.1 LINUX
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 23:15:01 GMT
I JUST INSTALLED 5.1 AND USED THE COMMAND ADDUSER name -p password, it
created the user but when i logoff and go to login it says LOGIN
INCORRECT.can someone help me before i kick the shi? out of it!!
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: monitor frequency out of range
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 23:06:16 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (MaryP) wrote:
> In article <8pqs2a$vp2$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
>
> > I set my monitor frequency too high in Xconfigurator and now all I
get
> > is a message from my monitor telling me that it is out of range. I
> > can't change anything because my monitor won't show anything but
this
> > message. Is there anyway out of this?
>
> What (if anything) happens when you go cntrl-alt-backspace? Or
> cntrl-alt-delete? (that one is often trapped and does nothing, but
> you might get lucky.) I did that once to my monitor but cntrl-alt-
> backspace still worked and I was able to back out of it.
>
> If you are able to get it to reboot watch the bootup messages and
> type "linux single" (or whatever works on your machine) when it pauses
> at the prompt. Then you can get in to your files and fix them by hand.
>
> Good luck,
> MP
> Cntrl+alt+backspace worked for some reason. I had to do it a few
times but it finally kicked off the message and allowed me to go in as
root to change the settings. Thanks
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: Karl Heyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.security,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: linux message: eth0
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 00:20:43 +0000
In article <8pt2oh$gi8$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I run linux mandrake 7.1, and have samba and netatalk working...
> I got this message on the shell:
>
> eth0: card reports no resources
>
> why that message...
> could anyone give me advice.
>
Is your network card PCMCIA/PCI ?. resources will be things like IO ports
IRQ etc. it sounds like a card was detected, but no way of using it.
I don't know about PCMCIA, but look at /proc/pci or run pnpdump just in
case it's an ISA card.
karl.
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From: Akira Yamanita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: IP Difficulties. Long live linux gurus!
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 23:33:22 GMT
Buschman wrote:
>
> I have noticed that in /etc/conf.modules it lists my driver
> incorrectly.
>
> It says:
>
> alias eth0 3c59x
> alias eth1 3c59x
>
> However both cards are 3Com 3c905b-tx NIC's. I remember when I had
> 6.1 installed with a single 3c905b-tx, it did the same thing. It
> detected and installed a 3c59x driver however with 6.1 it worked fine.
> Is there a 3c90x driver and if so how do I change it????
>
> thanks for your help.
That 3c59x driver is the correct driver. There is a 3c90x driver
available for download from 3COM. The 3c59x driver is written by
Donald Becker.
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
From: Chimpy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux 6.2: LILO question
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 16:43:52 -0700
Sounds like your LILO setup is wrong.
Boot the computer with your recovery disk (you did make a recovery disk,
right? *grin*) and look at /etc/lilo.conf. For guidance, try 'man
lilo.conf'.
Then re-run lilo by typing 'lilo' and reboot.
If we could see your /etc/lilo.conf it would help too. :))
ciao,
Gary
http://www.linuxchimp.com
On Fri, 15 Sep 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>
> Hi, I am a newbie trying to install Linux 6.2 on my machine.
> I have completed installing the program but I when I reboot,
> it does not proceed! I only get
>
> LI and it get's stuck!!
>
> What do I do from here??
>
> Thanks!
>
> AA
>
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
>
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From: "A derelict Engineer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install
Subject: too many objects after rebuilding kernel!!
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 16:49:02 -0700
I've installed RedHat Linux 6.1, and it installed and loaded without problem
However, I needed to make a couple of minor changes to the kernel (exporting
a couple of functions, in preparation for installing a special driver). I
ran 'make menuconfig', but didn't change anything (was just making sure
loadable modules were enabled) and then ran 'make bzImage', then copied the
new bzImage to /boot, and ran lilo.
Now, when I reboot, when it gets to looking for loadable modules, I get
HUNDREDS of "unable to load module: blahblah.o" messages. Everything seems
to run fine once it boots, but why is it doing this?? Did I actually have
to go thru every selection in menuconfig and turn off every item that I
don't actually use??
This never happened to me with kernel 2.0... I'm very confused!! Can anyone
shed some light on this??
Dan Miller
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From: Karl Heyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Specific ppp problem
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 00:54:48 +0000
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Richard Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> I am setting up ppp but getting the following error message when I run pppd
>
> /usr/sbin/pppd: The remote system is required to authenticate itself
> but I
> /usr/sbin/pppd: couldn't find any secret (password) which would let
> it use an IP address
>
> I have ppp version 2.3.7
>
> Here are my config files:
>
> /etc/ppp/options
> modem lock crtscts defaultroute asyncmap 0 mtu 552 mru 552
>
>
PPP is a symmetrical authentication system, ie you provide a username and
password and the peer provides one to you. But the major use for PPP is for
dialup uses, where the caller does not want the ISP to authenicate with them,
so a noauth option is required.
karl.
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From: john michael dodd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: switching distros
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 19:05:44 -0500
i'm looking to switch my distribution of linux from RHL 5.1 to Deb
2.2. the Debian install guides only cover how to go from slink to
potato (2.2). i'm wondering since those hdds are already formated ext2,
am i still going to have to reformat? i really don't want to rig my
system to use my roomate's or girlfriend's cd-r but i will if i
absolutely have to (and they let me).
please e-mail and group responses, if you don't mind.
--
s c a r y j o h n
"Sanity is a non-renewable resource. Use it sparingly."
--Greg J. Bell
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From: "Bill A." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Missing /usr/include/bits/linux/errno.h
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 20:04:49 -0400
When trying to compile the kernel on this RedHat 6.2 box, make bzImage
failed because it cannot file the errno.h file in /usr/include/bits/linux.
Any idea which package wasn't installed in the upgrade from 6.0 (I believe).
--
Bill
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