On Sat, Mar 18, 2000 at 02:21:18PM -0800, Lighthouse Keeper in the Desert Sun wrote:
> On Mar 18, Jeff conjectured:
>
> > Ack! That cheap mobo comment wasn't directed at you, Lighthouse Keeper,
> > that was the quality of the i586 mobos I had to deal with... The 486
> > might use a wierd chipset
On Sat, Mar 18, 2000 at 12:26:33PM -0800, Lighthouse Keeper in the Desert Sun wrote:
> So I made sure to install all the gcc stuff, and the c compiler
> *still* doesn't work. I still get the error 'cannot create executables.'
> I'm attempting to install ssh-1.2.27 from source. Could *that* be th
On Mar 18, Jeff conjectured:
> Ack! That cheap mobo comment wasn't directed at you, Lighthouse Keeper,
> that was the quality of the i586 mobos I had to deal with... The 486
> might use a wierd chipset, or just be getting worn out (sometimes that
> happens, but not often). My apologies.
:) I
> Any more ideas?
Send in some complete error messages. Console logs. Anything that looks out
of the ordinary...
Jeff
Argh. So I reinstalled the whole bloody thing. Thsi time I told it to go
only to cylinder 1024 (the old disk has 1046 cylinders) and unmounted
the dos partition before updating the db. It seemed happy, except that,
for some reason, the DOS partition is mounted read-only. Even if I
explicitly t
On Sat, Mar 18, 2000 at 11:00:58AM -0800, Jeff wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 11:19:18PM -0800, Lighthouse Keeper in the Desert Sun wrote:
>
> That is truly strange. I'm really temped to blame this on
> bad/incompatible hardware, yes, it does exist, unfortunately, but I'm
> not going to say th
On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 11:19:18PM -0800, Lighthouse Keeper in the Desert Sun wrote:
> past end of block". And the gcc is either not there or non-functional. I
> put RedHat 6, kernel (June 1999), no X services except the libraries that
> it installed by default. I put egcs on it, and it didn't
s and your
bootup files...maybe..
:)
good luck
dez
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> I can't say for sure, bu
I can't say for sure, but maybe you have a bad harddrive, or harddrive
controller?
I got my old 486 (a packard hell, no less) up and running without any
problem using Slackware 7. And with Slackware, you don't have to install
anything for X.
On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, Lighthouse Keeper in the Desert
So. I finally got an ethernet card for my old 486 and put linux on it.
But there are weird problems with the filesystem, including during
updatedb, getting FAT errors for the dos partition and "attempt to read
past end of block". And the gcc is either not there or non-functional. I
put RedHat 6
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