Hopefully this will save you a bit of time and gnashing of teeth --
Disk druid is akin to fdisk. Just does partitions, not installation. You
don't want to repartition your drive.
You shouldn't need to reinstall everything, either.
If you have the kernel sources installed, you can rebuild your kernel
without messing about with anything else.
If not, they're on the CD.
rpm -ivvvvh /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS/kernel-source-2.0.31-7.i386.rpm
^^^^^^^^
insert proper version here...
On Sun, 21 Jun 1998, Mike wrote:
> I just installed rh 5.1, i'm a novice at Linux. I set up netscape
> with my
> internet providers address info and I got nothing. What I did was login
> my shell account and activate the ppp connection. It timed out after
> maybe 20 or
> 30 sec. I feel that I don't have ppp installed or supported in my
> system. In using,
> the installer, disk druid, I believe, there seemed to be no choice to
> install ppp.
> When I looked at the network choice, it seemed to insist, I could be
> wrong, that
> you choose a network card, which I don't have. Anyway, I read the How-To
>
> 10 minute guide to PPP and it suggested some tests:
>
> pppd version gave me ' version 2.3 level3 '
>
> uname -a gave me ' 2.0.34 '
>
> dmesg | grep i ppp gave me nothing
>
> insmod gave me nothing
>
> The diagnosis as a result of the above tests was that the kernel must be
>
> rebuilt with ppp support.
> It seems that you can't go back to disk druid with out renaming all the
> installed partitions and reinstalling everything.
>
> I also did rpm -qa | grep kernel and got: kernel-2.0.34-0.6
>
> kernel-pcmcia-cs-2.0.34-0.6
>
> kernelcfg-0.5-2
> I have an internal 28.8 std modem.
>
> Thanks
> Mike
>
>
>
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