Newbie questions

[Roger Scow]

To run ybin you have to log in at least one time to YDL as root.

The rest of the stuff I'm dealing with too, ...

Roger

On Aug 26, 2004, at 8:35 AM, Steve Roy wrote:

> Good morning,
>
> I installed Yellow Dog Linux 3.0.1 on my TiPB three days ago and have  
> been getting myself more familiar with it. One thing I was hoping to  
> use is Mac-on-Linux, but startmol -X wouldn't work. I tried following  
> the user guide instructions from <http://maconlinux.org/userguide>.  
> What I understood is that:
>
> 1. I have to download mol-0.9.70-3.ppc.rpm and install it, so I did  
> that.
> 2. I have to download mol-kmods-0.9.70-3.src.rpm so I can compile the  
> kernel modules. I haven't done that yet.
>
> Feel free to let me know if I'm wrong at this point.
>
> Now to compile mol-kmods, I read I had to make sure I have the latest  
> kernel headers. I saw that I have kernel 2.4.22-2f, while the latest  
> is 2.4.22-2g, so I tried to run 'yum update'. It would start but stop  
> along the way with an errno 104 and a message saying the connection  
> was reset by the peer. Googling for that I found  
> <http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:54sy0apSj6cJ:www.sharplabs.com: 
> 8668/space/Configuring%2BYDL/ 
> Kernel%2BErrors%2Band%2BMac%2BOn%2BLinux+%22mac-on- 
> linux%22+%2Byum&hl=en>.
>
> Now again, feel free to let me know if I'm going the wrong way here.
>
> This link explains why 'yum update' doesn't work and so I copied the  
> yum.conf file it recommends and ran 'yum update' again. This time it  
> worked, but somehow when it was done the command 'rpm -i  
> mol-kmods-0.9.70-3.ppc.rpm' appeared in the terminal. It failed  
> because it couldn't find mol-kmods-0.9.70-3.ppc.rpm, which the MOL  
> download page says doesn't exist because it has to be compiled (see 2.  
> above).
>
> So now I was wondering what to do. Reading the instructions for the  
> next step in the googled link above, it said that after running 'yum  
> update' the 2.4.22-2g kernel should be in the /boot directory. So I  
> looked but it's not there.  What do I do?
>
> In addition, the instructions said I have to edit yaboot.conf to  
> include the new kernel. I did that to get ahead, but then I have to  
> run 'ybin -v' and when I try I get "command not found", which is  
> rather weird. What's going on?
>
> Thanks for any help,
>
> Steve
>
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