From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from gate.ufw2.com([216.163.19.158]) (2827 bytes) by braille.uwo.ca via smail with P:esmtp/D:aliases/T:pipe (sender: ) id for ; Sun, 5 Nov 2000 15:55:34 -0500 (EST) (Smail-3.2.0.102 1998-Aug-2 #2 built 1999-Sep-5) Received: from [216.163.21.20] by gate.ufw2.com for speakup@braille.uwo.ca id OAA07689; Sun Nov 5 14:51:04 2000 Received: from hardb ([216.163.21.59]) by mail.ufw2.com (Build 101 8.9.3/NT-8.9.3) with SMTP id OAA06106 for ; Sun, 05 Nov 2000 14:52:20 -0600 Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.20001105145210.007b2850@mail.ufw2.com> X-Sender: bharding@mail.ufw2.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2000 14:52:10 -0600 Subject: Re: installed rh 6.2 from talking bootdisk, but it's kernel refuses to work properly when copied in from the bootdisk In-Reply-To: <004601c0475e$d54d8860$3aa50e18@muskgn1.mi.home.com> References: <3.0.6.32.20001105123742.007b2100@mail.ufw2.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca From: Brent Harding List-Id: Wow, the CD installed fine, just that ppp doesn't work. It complains about nfs and other things I don't need too. I only spent $10.00, not too bad. At 02:30 PM 11/5/00 -0500, you wrote: >This sounds like a similar problem I had, the only difference being that I >was unable to completely make a new kernel. I'm thinking there's a bug in >6.2's software. Maybe they have shipped bad cd's. As a result, the $80 I >spent on Redhat is more or less used as an expensive manual for commands. >If I were you, I'd go back to zipspeak for the time being. > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Brent Harding" >To: >Sent: Sunday, November 05, 2000 1:37 PM >Subject: installed rh 6.2 from talking bootdisk, but it's kernel refuses to >work properly when copied in from the bootdisk > > >> I was installing rh 6.2 yesterday from a CD I got from cheapbytes.com. I >> got the thing installed all the way, and it rebooted. When linux loaded it >> didn't come talking. The keymap fails to load. When I got in and replaced >> the kernel with that found on the boot disk, and rebooted, I got speech >but >> tons of errors, and ppp gave error can't open ppp0, error 4. Loading the >> module gives unresolved symbols. I still have zipspeak around here yet, >how >> should I fix this so things come up like they should? How do I change the >> default operating system to boot, as lilo put linux first, is there a cut >> and paste console utility to do this? >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup@braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > >