HOWTO: MOL 0.965 and Yellow Dog 2.3 (HTML E-Mail) also a quick not on Networking....

[Jamie Maynard]

Hi Jose

Have you seen my recent post on compiling a new kernel?  There I have
detailed how I compile a kernel.  If the kernel from my site fails then
there is a good chance that your C-Compiler is broken.  In rare cases the
C-Compiler can become broken.

But I am glad you had success with out compiling a new kernel, personally my
experiences of compiling anything against the YDL 2.3 kernel was not good.
It's still my recommendation people compile a new kernel.  There are two
reasons for this.  The first is that you get a kernel which is optimized for
your system, you can remove things like alti-vec support, 601 workarounds
and other non-applicable stuff from your kernel which will improve your
system performance and thus the performance of MOL.  The second reason is
the kernel which comes with YDL 2.3 is not a stable kernel, it was
2.4.18-pre8 if I remember correctly.  They have changed the Makefile so that
it claims to be 2.4.18 (Final) by using my kernel sources you get 2.4.19
(Final) which is stable.

Jamie

On 7/10/02 1:46 pm, "Jose Farina" <Jose_Miguel_Farina@brown.edu> wrote:

> Hi all:
> For more than a month I have been trying to install MOL 0.9.65 on YDL
> 2.3 running on my Ibook and on my Imac.
> Since I'm  a newbie in both linux and MOL I tried everything, also
> compiling new kernels (with disastrous results)
> Finally I found that if you follow the step-by step guide of Jamie
> posted on sept 29  (see the subject) BUT STARTING FROM STEP
> 2...everything will work fine...
> I IDID NOT COMPILED A NEW KERNEL
> so I did (see the original message from jamie for detailed
> instructions)...
> 
> Step 2:
> I downloaded the MOL files from internet
> mol-kmods-0.9.65-1.src.rpm
> and
> mol-0.9.65-1.ppc.rpm
> and save it in any directory...example /root/
> 
> Step 3:
> REMOVED THE PREVIOUS VERSION OF MOL (a VERY IMPORTANT STEP), but since
> I cant understand the original commands of jamie (rpm =ADqa | grep mol
> ?)
> I use a more primitive version....
> rpm -q MOL
> that gave me the MOL version already installed....for example MOL-XX
> then I deleted this version...
> rpm -e MOL XX
> then I asked for the modules...
> rpm -q mol.kmods
> that gave me the mol.kmods version already installed....for example
> mol.kmods-XX
> then I deleted this modules...
> rpm -e mol.kmods-XX
> 
> Step 4 I Rebuild the Kernel modules files...
> from the same directory were I saved the mol files...example cd /root/
> I said...
> rpm --rebuild ./mol-kmods-0.9.65-1.src.rpm
> and moved the new generated files (mol-kmods-0.9.65-1.ppc.rpm) from
> /usr/src/rpm/RPMS/ppc to were I originally downloaded the mol
> files..example /root/...
> mv /usr/src/rpm/RPMS/ppc/mol-kmods-0.965-1-ppc.rpm /root/
> and then
> 
> step 5
> I installed MOL (the order of installation is critical also...first the
> modules then the application!!!)
> rpm -i mol-kmods-0.9.65.1.ppc.rpm
> rpm -i mol-0.9.65-1.ppc.rpm
> 
> from there I followed step 6 to step 8 of Jamie step-step guide...
> 
> A caution note: I do not know if is important but....I did this in both
> my Ibook and Imac.  In both computers  I got YDL 2.3 Development
> package installed (I do not if it will work in the YDL 2.3 Home/Office
> package)
> I hope that this instructions helps.
> 
> KONGO
> 
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