On Wednesday 13 July 2005 09:34, Timothy Murphy wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >> 3 more installs later I still don't have a usable x-server like I >> had with the first install, seems the nv driver doesn't support 32 >> bit, nor 1600x1200 screens, suddenly??. And x-server problems >> notwithstanding, the last two installs have set eth0 up with only >> an ipv6 style address, and of course I have no networking. yum of >> course loves that... > >I don't set up as an expert, Neither did I. I just selected automatic disk partitioning on /dev/hda, and manual configuration of the network (which I did) as opposed to the default dhcp. And 'everything'... >but it seems to me that the changes you are making are too > comprehensive. You would be better off pausing a little longer, >and trying to work out why one particular thing is not working. > >For example, if I had a problem with X I would try installing in > text mode, and then try to set up X later, using one of the several > tools available. I don't think there is, and I haven't found, a non gui install (linux text) that doesn't fail from a /dev/hda3 is busy condition. >I've never understood your problems with /dev/hda and /dev/hdb . Its real simple, both hda1 and hdb1 were marked as bootable, because hdb was originally hda & vice-versa. The bios apparently doesn't care, and up till the last reboot last night, it was actually booting from the contents of /dev/hdb1 even though it wasn't mounted once booted, hda1 was. >I think that normally the computer will try to boot from /dev/hda >unless you have told the BIOS otherwise. >But if you install grub on the /dev/hda MBR it can certainly >find partitions on /dev/hdb . And vice-versa as has been proved here for quite some time. >As for IPv6, I think you can disable this by adding IPV6INIT=no >to /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 (or whatever) >and saying "service network restart" as root. But a 'service network restart' fails because it cannot allocate via kmalloc, 4GB of ram. Thats a ridiculous error on the face of it, and has to be a real bug. >(Or you could remove the IPv6 module from /lib/modules/<version>/ .) Why should I have to, when in the installs network config, dhcp is disabled and the network configured by hand, and iptables and selinux is disabled since I'm behind a firewall? I still have to add to the /etc/hosts file of course, but thats not helping now since it decided to use only ipv6 addressing according to an 'ifconfig eth0' report. > >-- >Timothy Murphy >e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie >tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 >s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.35% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
