Re: Missing things

["Boboly Pizza Man" <boboly nb net>]

----- Original Message -----
From: Kevin Colby <kevinc grainsystems com>
To: <redhat-install-list redhat com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 1999 6:05 PM
Subject: Re: Missing things


> What a weird tale...
>
> It sounds like you are setup to use modules and kerneld,
> but don't actually have kerneld running.

Hmmm... How would I go about starting it? I'm almost positive it is
running... I think I remember seeing it when I ran a process viewer in Gnome
(it's actually a KDE app I think, but it runs fine in Gnome). Here's how I
installed: I had to use the Windows 98 boot disk to load my CD-ROM drivers
and such... My CD-ROM was loaded as drive E. I tried running rawrite in the
dosutils directory to write the boot.img file to a disk so I could use a
real boot disk and not this Windows crap, but for some reason it would just
freeze. I tried copying the boot.img file and rawrite to my hard drive
because I thought the Win98 boot disk was stealing too much RAM or something
and I was planning on just booting into DOS without any boot disk (no CD-ROM
support) and then using rawrite to copy the image, but when I tried coping
boot.img, it froze. So then I tried it on my other system (which doesn't
require a boot disk to load the CD-ROM), and it froze. So I then ran
autoboot.bat in the dosutils directory to run the install for 6.0. I then
chose the language and all, setup a 10 meg partition for /boot, a 32 meg
partition for swap, and another partition to fill my drive for /. I chose to
install everything and apon completion, I kept the default setting for what
programs to run on boot, setup X, and set X to load apon boot. When this did
not work, I tried upgrading 5.2 to 6.0 instead of installing. I took the
same steps as for installing except I chose to upgrade, chose to install
everything (not just the updates to what I already had) and left the default
settings for what to boot alone. When that was done, I got into Linux and
ran Xconfigurator to configure the settings for X and to make it boot when
Linux does.

I also tried making it load everything in the list once when doing a full
install, but this did not solve my problem. Perhaps my friend's CD is
screwy, I dunno. He says it works fine for him though, I don't get it...