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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