Subject: Re: Kernel 2.2.12-2.ppc.rpm install, woe is me!
From: Bernie Mentink (ebike@paradise.net.nz)
Date: Sun Oct 10 1999 - 14:10:26 MDT
Hi Dan,
Yes, tried insmod hfs, coudn't find the module. rpm -ql doesn't show it in
the module directory either. Tried the same on cdrom (directory empty) and
ppp ( complains that kernal's and modules are incapatable).
Appreciate if you put vmlinux on the ftp site.
Cheers,
Bernie.
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>From: Dan Burcaw <dburcaw@terraplex.com>
>To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
>Subject: Re: Kernel 2.2.12-2.ppc.rpm install, woe is me!
>Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 7:58 AM
>
>
>
> Did you insmod hfs?
>
>> Ok, I'm panicking now , have sent this message from the mac partition as
>> linux is no more.
>>
>> I had a go at installing 2.2.12-2 to 'test' this experimental kernel (need
>> the printer support).
>> Well I installed it with rpm -Uvh kernel-2.2.12-2.ppc.rpm and I get an error
>> saying it cannot remove
>> "lib/modules/2.2.6-16bpmac" directory (not empty). Not to worry, can remove
>> that later.
>>
>> So I go to copy the vmlinux file over to my exchange partition to get it
>> into my
>> mac system folder, well I find I cannot mount the partition ( ... kernel
>> doen't support "hfs" file
>> system??). Allright, I backtrack by trying to re-install my old kernel with
>> rpm -U --oldpackage.
>> However it can not find the old 2.2.6 files anywhere??? Where does rpm put
>> the old files
>> when it does an upgrade anyhow?? Locate coudn't find them (after updatedb of
>> cource).
>>
>> Ok, so I thought I'd point rpm to the copy on the YD cd-rom drive, only to
>> find that I
>> cannot mount the drive. ( iso9660 not supported in this kernel!)
>> aaarrrggghhh
>>
>> I guess to get my system up and running I need to get a copy of the
>> vmlinux-2.2.12-2etc file into
>> my system folder, I presume that is the main problem -- help please.
>>
>> I used the "rpm -U" install option, as the README file had no mention of
>> using "rpm -I"
>>
>> Can someone please tell me how to recover from this, without having to
>> re-install YD 2.2.6
>> all over again. I have a (two-week old) backup of most files in my exchange
>> partition, but I'd
>> have to re-install 2.2.6 to be able to use it.
>> Maybe someone can send me the vmlinux-2.2.12 file (if that is the problem).
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>> Bernie.
>>
>> --
>>
>> __________________________________________________
>> Bernie Mentink.
>>
>> Christchurch, New Zealand.
>> email: ebike@hotmail.com
>> ebike@paradise.net.nz
>> fax: 64-21-218-9791
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>>
>
> Dan
>
> Terra Soft Solutions, Inc.
> Yellow Dog Linux
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