yellowdog-general Digest, Vol 11, Issue 6

[Jeffrey Paul Burger]

Thanks! You were both correct re ifconfig. Still missing tmpfs or any
knowledge of other means of creating a RAM disk. Will start a separate
thread specifically on that.

Best,

Jeffrey



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> From: Jeffrey Paul Burger <jeff at sedona.net>
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> I'm running Yellow Dog 4.0 on a dual 2.5 G5. I can't find any command such
> as tmpfs (missing) to create a virtual disk, and can't figure out how to get
> any kind of networking running for file sharing (missing ifconfig for
> starters). I'm assuming that I need to add a package or something, but I
> don't know enough to know what or how. Or are there other workarounds for
> these needs? If I need to reinstall, any tips would be appreciated since
> I've done an install only once a long time ago and am a bit intimidated
> about any problems or ripple effect! Assistance greatly appreciated!
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Jeffrey Paul Burger
> 
> "There are only two ways to live your life.
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> Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2005 13:25:03 -0500
> From: ron flory <ron.flory at adtran.com>
> Subject: Re: Missing commands/functions
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> Jeffrey Paul Burger wrote:
> 
>> I'm running Yellow Dog 4.0 on a dual 2.5 G5. I can't find any command such
>> as tmpfs (missing) to create a virtual disk, and can't figure out how to get
>> any kind of networking running for file sharing (missing ifconfig for
>> starters). I'm assuming that I need to add a package or something, but I
>> don't know enough to know what or how. Or are there other workarounds for
>> these needs? If I need to reinstall, any tips would be appreciated since
>> I've done an install only once a long time ago and am a bit intimidated
>> about any problems or ripple effect! Assistance greatly appreciated!
> 
>   are you sure ifconfig is missing?  were you logged in as root when you
> tried to run ifconfig?  Other users generally must type /sbin/ifconfig
> because /sbin is generally not in the non-root-user search path.
> 
>   This is normal.
> 
> ron
> 
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> Message: 3
> Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2005 11:27:28 -0700 (PDT)
> From: "C.J. Harris" <cjharrisr66t at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: Missing commands/functions
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> Hello,
> I'm not sure if yellowdog 4.0 comes with "tmpfs", but
> as far as "ifconfig", Make sure you are root. I would
> mangier "ifconfig" would have to be included in the
> yellowdog install because its basic UNIX utilities,
> Try "whereis ifconfig" as root. The path to "ifconfig"
> should be /sbin/ifconfig
> 
> Seejay
> 
> --- Jeffrey Paul Burger <jeff at sedona.net> wrote:
> 
>> I'm running Yellow Dog 4.0 on a dual 2.5 G5. I can't
>> find any command such
>> as tmpfs (missing) to create a virtual disk, and
>> can't figure out how to get
>> any kind of networking running for file sharing
>> (missing ifconfig for
>> starters). I'm assuming that I need to add a package
>> or something, but I
>> don't know enough to know what or how. Or are there
>> other workarounds for
>> these needs? If I need to reinstall, any tips would
>> be appreciated since
>> I've done an install only once a long time ago and
>> am a bit intimidated
>> about any problems or ripple effect! Assistance
>> greatly appreciated!
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> 
>> Jeffrey Paul Burger
>> 
>> "There are only two ways to live your life.
>> One is as though nothing is a miracle.
>> The other is as if everything is."
>>                                     --Albert
>> Einstein
>> 
>> 
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