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| 222781 | 2004-03-17 01:08:00 | hi Jen hoping you could help me again? I have followed your instructions and all was good until I was prompted to insert disk 2 when trying to install fedora kernal source. I have tried all three of the disks that were givin to me by the Linuxshop.co.nz, have I been ripped? are there more? I read somewhere fedora core consisted of like 6 disks. |
jupi8 (4244) | ||
| 222782 | 2004-03-17 01:47:00 | I think redhat-config-packages is a bit confused with its database and cannot find packages sometimes in FC1 (read about this happening). So, you will just need to manually copy and install the source from the CD yourself. Put in disk 3 and browse into the Fedora/RPMS folder. Look for the file called kernel-source-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl.i386.rpm. Right click on this and copy it into your home directory. To install it with the graphical RPM program, just double-click on it and follow any prompts. If you wish to install it via the command line instead, open up a Terminal window in the directory the RPM is saved and enter su then root's password. Now enter in (everything is case sensitive): rpm -Uvh kernel-source-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl.i386.rpm [enter] Small tip: you can have the Terminal window/console etc auto-complete file names for you. After entering in rpm -Uvh ker hit the tab button and the rest of the file name will be completed for you. >I read somewhere fedora core consisted of like 6 disks. Fedora Core 1 consists of 3 standard precompiled rpm disks, there is however an additional 3 disks which are all source-rpms (but you don't need these). I also have Fedora Core 2 test 1 running on one of my machines, and that was a 4 disk set so it will be interesting if the final stable release Core 2 becomes a 4 CD distro. |
Jen C (20) | ||
| 222783 | 2004-03-17 02:36:00 | I copied and run the graphical installation of the kernal-source and after about a minute of installing prompted me to insert a disc, I canceled and now when I click on the kernel RPM it says it is already installed, so I assume it is. Everything else installed fine I think. When I go to set up my connection though it still does not detect my modem. Have I done something wrong? Do I need to manully activate my modem somehow? |
jupi8 (4244) | ||
| 222784 | 2004-03-17 03:22:00 | >the kernel RPM it says it is already installed, so I assume it is. Just to make sure of this, open up a terminal window and enter: rpm -qa kernel-source This should return you the file name and version of the kernel source if it is installed. The installation of the driver is done as root, and it says in the readme that root is the owner of the scripts so you need to be root when setting up/using the modem to dialup (this can be changed later with permissions so you can access the modem from your account). So login as root first and see whether you can setup the modem from that account. I haven't had to configure a internal dialup modem for Linux, so I won't be much more help from this point on if the modem still does not work, sorry. We will need to call in the Linux modem guru's for this. If you get to this point, I suggest you post the contents of the readme file here as it contains some trouble-shooting procedures which will help others to help you. :) |
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