quick setup

[J.R. Lillard]

right.  and i've tried all that.  compiling everything always results in 
a seg fault that i posted about yesterday.  as far as i can tell, 
however, my kernel is working fine.  i've always been dealing with mol 
0.9.63.  and the kernel i've been compiling has been 2.4.18.  just for 
kicks, i compiled 2.2.21 this morning.  mol wouldn't even compile 
correctly.  it attempts to reference a function in the kernel headers 
called get_zeroed_page.  i looked and there's no mention of 
get_zeroed_page in the 2.2.21 kernel source anywhere.  so i'm guessing 
it's new to the 2.4 kernel.  i never saw anything saying that mol 
requires the 2.4 kernel though.

regardless, the only time i've gotten mol to work was with a precompiled 
2.4.18 kernel and a binary distribution of mol that matched.  and even 
then the sheep_net module wouldn't load due to unresolved symbols 
leaving me without networking.  compiling allows me to load the modules 
without a problem, but like i said, mol just seg faults right away.  i 
thought maybe there was a distribution out there with working mol 
binaries i could try just to see it all work.

since i actually saw things work once (without networking of course) i 
have to think my setup on the mac side is okay.  i extracted a mac os 
rom file from the os 9.2.2 updated.  this rom file is version 8.7 and is 
not listed on the compatibility list on the mol website.  is it possible 
that there's something in the rom file causing the crash?  i've still 
got the 9.2.1 installer.  i might try it with that rom instead since 
it's actually listed on the compatibility chart as working.

Greg Alexander wrote:
> "J.R. Lillard" wrote:
> 
>>i've been trying to get mol working on a beige g3 running debian for a
>>couple weeks now with no success.  i'm desparately wanting to get this
>>working and i'm willing to do whatever it takes at this point.  i'll
>>even switch to a different linux distribution.  i'm not tied to debian
>>for any reason.  i just found that it was easy to install.  can anyone
>>out there recommend a simple, quick way to get mol going with as little
>>manual intervention as possible?  network installations of linux are
>>preferable but as long as i don't *have* to install from a cd it should
>>be okay.
>>
>>--
>>J.R.
> 
> 
> My understanding:
> 
> 1.) Download Kernel Sources.
> 2.) Download MOL Sources.
> 3.) Compile all of the above.
> 4.) Reboot w/ new kernel.
> 5.) Install MOL.
> 6.) Run MOL.
> 
> MOL doesn't rely on much more than your kernel version, so changing
> distributions shouldn't make much difference.
> 
> GREG
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J.R.