New user encountering problems

[Jacob Schmude]

Hi
	Well, I don't know what tools debian provides, but I know redhat
does have a tool to configure networking. Be warned, though, any use of
rh's tools, then try to build your own kernel, and you're likely screwed
up. They seem to take a stand like "Oh, you don't need to build a kernel,
do it our way".
	You're certainly right about debian having files in nonstandard
places. Whoever heard  of dosemu's configuration files going in
/usr/lib/dosemu/etc, for example.

On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, Brent Harding wrote:

> I've liked debian for awhile, but tons of stuff won't compile, because the
> locations of files are a little screwy. Why put stuff in non standard
> places I don't know. How does one configure a redhat kernel when compiling
> anyways? I'm thinking about using it some time, suppose I need the 3c59x
> driver support for networking, can I config it like a normal kernel or does
> redhat have tools to make this easier?
> At 11:24 PM 9/22/00 -0400, you wrote:
> >Hi
> >	It is possible to build a speakup kernel from the Red Hat source
> >RPM. Just skip the patches that can't find their files, they don't apply
> >to the i386.
> >	However, the kernel will build, but unless you use a rh supplied
> >config, your modules will have unresolved symbols all over the place. I
> >don't think speakup agrees with some of the patches RH applied to their
> >kernel rpm, for it is not a clean source. They've applied all sorts of
> >stuff that are beta, or even alpha. Not wise, I believe they do it to try
> >to get their distro to support more hardware.
> >	Personally, I think slackware is the best, closely followed by
> >debian.
> >
> >On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, Kirk Wood wrote:
> >
> >> I believe this is a kernel problem. Once the kernel starts expanding (you
> >> get the loading and the dots, then the kernel quickly takes over. My guess
> >> is that you used the kernell source provided by RedHat. If you did, then
> >> you should download the kernel (possibly from kernel.org) and apply the
> >> patch compile, etc.) RedHat doesn't provide the complete kernel and as a
> >> result the built images don't work correct. Sorry I can't give you more
> >> complete details. Just that it is common to discover you can't build a
> >> working kernel with speakup from the RedHat source package.
> >> 
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