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.
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