installed rh 6.2 from talking bootdisk, but it's kernel refuses to work properly when copied in from the bootdisk

[Brent Harding]

Wow, the CD installed fine, just that ppp doesn't work. It complains about
nfs and other things I don't need too.
I only spent $10.00, not too bad.
At 02:30 PM 11/5/00 -0500, you wrote:
>This sounds like a similar problem I had, the only difference being that I
>was unable to completely make a new kernel.  I'm thinking there's a bug in
>6.2's software.  Maybe they have shipped bad cd's.  As a result, the $80 I
>spent on Redhat is more or less used as an expensive manual for commands.
>If I were you, I'd go back to zipspeak for the time being.
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Brent Harding" <bharding at ufw2.com>
>To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
>Sent: Sunday, November 05, 2000 1:37 PM
>Subject: installed rh 6.2 from talking bootdisk, but it's kernel refuses to
>work properly when copied in from the bootdisk
>
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>> I was installing rh 6.2 yesterday from a CD I got from cheapbytes.com. I
>> got the thing installed all the way, and it rebooted. When linux loaded it
>> didn't come talking. The keymap fails to load. When I got in and replaced
>> the kernel with that found on the boot disk, and rebooted, I got speech
>but
>> tons of errors, and ppp gave error can't open ppp0, error 4. Loading the
>> module gives unresolved symbols. I still have zipspeak around here yet,
>how
>> should I fix this so things come up like they should? How do I change the
>> default operating system to boot, as lilo put linux first, is there a cut
>> and paste console utility to do this?
>>
>>
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