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Re: rex boot floppies arn't complete



This is basically what happened.

I screwed up a buzz based system I like to play around with at the lab I 
work in the summer.  So on friday I went it to try to install rex on the 
system, I figured it be a test of the boot floppies.  When I download the 
disks to an HP-UX machine.  I then rawrite them to the floppies.  

I then boot up my machine normally and everything goes ok till I need to 
configure the device drivers.  I go to the menyu for ipv4 and install the 
module named *.  The message comes up and says if the module console 
isn't there the installation will fail.  It did.  I looked on the boot 
floppy in the directory /lib/modules/2.0.25/ipv4 and th directory was empty.

I finish with the installation and hoping everything was ok reboot the 
system.  It comes up normally I run .configure, dselect comes up, I 
configure it to get the .deb files from ftp.debian.org and then run 
update.  I waited a while and dpkg-ftp bombed out.  I then tried to ftp 
to a local machine and that didn't work either.

The only thing that I can think that I might of done wrong is to to type 
in the wrong name of the dns server.  I probably should of tested it by 
ftp to an ip address, but I was going a little crazy so I didn't think it.

The other thing I can think that I might of done wrong is to type in some 
wrong network information, but I am almost positive I got that all 
right.  

If ipv4 is already compiled in to the kernel, what purpose is there to 
have a menu for ipv4 modules, and an empty ipv4 module directory?

I probably did something wrong, considering when I downloaded the buzz 
disks I got the same error.

Shaya
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On Fri, 29 Nov 1996, Bruce Perens wrote:

> I don't know what a "console" module is. You should not need to load ipv4,
> it's linked in. I think this report may be spurious, but I'll wait to
> hear more from you.
> 
> 	Bruce
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