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Aug. 21st, 2002 08:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hyuricouple hours ago I was checking out Cam Whores and some Yahoo groups, got tired of the slow-ass downloads from the Yahoo yahoos and the meaningless five-a-minute updates from the camwhores, and decided to play the Linux game again. but smart this time.
I downloaded a bootdisk image and the rootdisk set, rawrite'd them to diskette... --and discovered my diskette drive ate the big one while I wasn't looking. okay, cannibalize another computer, grab a new cable; we're all good, right?
wrong. no matter what I did, rootdisk #1 always got corrupted somewhere along the way; so I grabbed the UMSDOS temp install partition (install.zip; this is good). wonder of wonders, it worked! without any problems!
but a computer without network access is a pointless waste of time, so I decided to recompile the kernel. this went off without a hitch, so, naturally, I compile the kernel mods--problem. big problem. apparently kernel mods for 2.4.18 don't like to compile with mod-utils-2.4.16... or maybe it's just me.
next step: kludge together a networked kernel and grab mod-utils-2.4.19. this goes fine except for a slight hitch at the beginning where I had the nameserver set wrong. oops.
finally get connected to the kernel.org ftp site and decide to grab util-linux-2.11u--hey, why not? so I download both files and try the Slackware upgradepkg util to install 'em--big mistake. they aren't Slackware packages, and for some reason all the files just get removed. agetty and mount are bad things to lose track of, especially if you only discover this after you reboot and can't recover. [note: perhaps I can, just remembered something]
anyway, if I can get it back up and running I'll compile 2.4.19 since that's worked fine every time I've tried it.
I downloaded a bootdisk image and the rootdisk set, rawrite'd them to diskette... --and discovered my diskette drive ate the big one while I wasn't looking. okay, cannibalize another computer, grab a new cable; we're all good, right?
wrong. no matter what I did, rootdisk #1 always got corrupted somewhere along the way; so I grabbed the UMSDOS temp install partition (install.zip; this is good). wonder of wonders, it worked! without any problems!
but a computer without network access is a pointless waste of time, so I decided to recompile the kernel. this went off without a hitch, so, naturally, I compile the kernel mods--problem. big problem. apparently kernel mods for 2.4.18 don't like to compile with mod-utils-2.4.16... or maybe it's just me.
next step: kludge together a networked kernel and grab mod-utils-2.4.19. this goes fine except for a slight hitch at the beginning where I had the nameserver set wrong. oops.
finally get connected to the kernel.org ftp site and decide to grab util-linux-2.11u--hey, why not? so I download both files and try the Slackware upgradepkg util to install 'em--big mistake. they aren't Slackware packages, and for some reason all the files just get removed. agetty and mount are bad things to lose track of, especially if you only discover this after you reboot and can't recover. [note: perhaps I can, just remembered something]
anyway, if I can get it back up and running I'll compile 2.4.19 since that's worked fine every time I've tried it.
