Re: 3 questions. Please, HELP ME!

[Philip Lehman <lehman@gmx.net>]

On Sat, 1 Apr 2000, José María Pongilioni López <ponghy@ono.es> wrote:

>Hi! I'm a Debian Linux 2.1 'slink' user, and I have 3 questions:
>
>1.  I have compiled the version 2.2.4-intl of Linux Kernel and, at boot
>time, my screen shows the following message:
>    SIOCADDRT: Invalid argument
>
>    I have read the documentation, and says that is a bug in pppd
>versions 2.2.0 and earlier. I have currently installed pppd v2.3 patch
>level 5.
>    Why does occur this? How can I patch the kernel?

I *think* this occurs when running a 2.2.x kernel with slink, because
the /etc/init.d/network script tries to add a route to the loopback
interface (lo). This is not neccessary any more with a 2.2.x kernel.
Look for a line starting with "route add ..." in /etc/init.d/network,
comment it out and see if that helps.

>2.  [...]

>3. I have the defrag utility. How can I defragment my Linux partition,
>since a mounted drive cannot be defragmented?

There is no need to 'defrag' ext2 filesystems, you don't have to worry
about that.

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Philip Lehman <lehman@gmx.net>