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

[Brent Harding]

Did that last night, got to use eznet to connect to the net as I still have
gotten the not 8 bit clean connection when using rh's ppp method. I didn't
recompile the modules though, as him and I will be working on updating
stuff eventually.
At 08:08 PM 11/7/00 +1100, you wrote:
>It is a missmatch between the kernel on the speakup disk and a kernel on
>the cd; ask Bill how to fix it.
>
>Regards, Kerry.
>On Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 02:52:10PM -0600, Brent Harding wrote:
>> 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
>> >
>> >
>> >> 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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