Re: Small Problems

["Rodolfo J. Paiz" <rpaiz indahaus com>]

At 10/1/2001 08:08 AM -0700, you wrote:
> I've built RH71 on a new box.

Good for you.

> This is my first install, although I've been running an RH box for a 
> while. I had an error on install that the box wouldn't allow me to develop 
> a boot disk, so I ran the following:
>
> dd if=/boot/vmlinuz of=/dev/fd0 bs=8192
> end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 0
> dd: opening '/dev/fd0': Read-only file system
> rdev /boot/vmlinuz
> Root device /dev/sde1

You might want to try the 'mkbootdisk' command, if you didn't know about 
it. Useful thing. Also make sure you can successfully boot off your 
bootdisk... these are the kind of things that *must* be verified.

> I also had an error during the install with regard to the ethernet 
> connection (eth0). The box does have an ethernet card.

Which error? Heck, which card? Output of ifconfig? Contents of 
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0? Contents of 
/etc/sysconfig/network? Come on, Ben, we've been here before...

DETAILS!!!


--
Rodolfo J. Paiz
rpaiz indahaus com