Jonathan Hayward writes: > The machine was also set to start xdm on boot; coming in with a rescue > floppy was the only way I could figure out to get it to boot and give a > text terminal (I did not have the boot scripts start xdm before).
I agree that this a serious bug. The authorities don't agree, however. > One mechanism I can think of OTOH would be for the database to keep > checksums of the files for earlier versions, so that it can at least ask > before clobbering something which does work and replacing it with > something which doesn't work. Another is to do what everyone else does and install stuff that is outside the packaging system under /usr/local. > /dev/eth0 no longer exists, and I cannot locate anything in the > documentation telling how to regenerate that or some equivalent device. If you had a /dev/eth0, I don't know where you got it. Linux (and Unix in general) has no such thing. > MAKEDEV, for instance, did not recognize eth0 as a parameter. Not surprising. > Therefore, I have no network functionality, and am forced to do all my > transfers by floppy. Did you select the appropriate driver when you compiled your kernel? -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI
