Hi & hag sameiach to all I used the wait for the new computer in order to play with the instalation of debian sarge kernel 246-8. I started with an installation CD. Then, in the second stage, I configured pppoe, changed the definition of the apt sources and continued. Two questions: 1-I found no way to properly configure the net: either (automatic or manual configuration) I ended with a netcard that wakes up with a definite address, or with a /etc/network/interfaces file containing only the lo interface. I can do manually an "ifconfig eth0 up" (as root) and then "pon dsl-provider", either as root or as a normal user belonging to the dip group. In the old slackware and red hat distributions there was a rc.local where one could put commands like "ifconfig eth0 up", in order to automate this step. I saw nothing like it in this distribution. I assume that there must be a better way. In the /network/interfaces file, after configuring ppoe, there is a line: "pre-up /sbin/ifconfig eth0 up # line maintained by pppoeconf" which is supposed to take care of the problem, but it does not work when "pon dsl-provider" is invoked (even by root): if the netcard had not been up-ped previously, plog just reports that the net is down. I tried to introduce the lines: iface eth0 inet manual up ifconfig 0.0.0.0 up up /usr/bin/pon dsl-provider down ifconfig down as suggested by one of the examples in /usr/share/doc/ifupdown/examples but this did not help either. 2-During the boot process I see messages about modules that cannot be loaded (not found). I don't see them in dmesg or in the syslog. But I see there: Apr 16 17:48:32 tami kernel: Cannot find map file. Apr 16 17:48:32 tami kernel: No module symbols loaded.
Any ideas? A last question: I am very tempted to try the procedure described in /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt/Multiboot-with-GRUB.gz (by Ivan Kanis, [EMAIL PROTECTED]). I still have valuable software for windows 98 -like Partition Magic and SAS. I'd like to know if anyone had direct experience with it Bye and thanks, Avraham ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
