Dan Burcaw (dburcaw@terraplex.com)
Sun, 13 Jun 1999 14:46:21 -0600 (MDT)
On Sun, 13 Jun 1999, Wayne Allison wrote:
> Dan Burcaw said:
> > Wayne,
> > The kernel that Dan Burcaw placed up for ftp late last
> > week has it built-in. The RPMS are at:
> > ftp://ftp.yellowdoglinux.com/pub/yellowdog/kernel/RPMS/
> >
> > You only need to get one of the RPMS. I grabbed
> > kernel-pmac-2.2.6-16a.ppc.rpm
> > for my iMac.
> >
> > The prep and chrp are for other flavors of PPC.
> >
> > Hope that helps
> > Paul
> >
>
> I've just got around to installing the suggested above rpm but I still don't
> get PPP support.
> I actually don't think it's picking up the new kernel after having rebooted.
> Doing a uname -a still shows the old kernel name whereas I expect it to pick up
> the 2.2.6 name.
You need to copy /boot/vmlinux to the System Folder on your MacOS
partition. This is because BootX can only look for the kernel on the MacOS
partition.
>
> In WinTel it's playing with LILO what's the equiv. here.
> Another person says that it doesn't work for him, have you got it working?.
>
> Wayne.
> > --- Wayne Allison <wayne_allison@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I've just installed YellowDog server on my iMac.
> > >
> > >
> > > Trying to use PPP it says "The kernel doesn't support
> > > that blah blah.
> > >
> > > Do I now have to rebuild the Kernel to add the pppd
> > > module.
> > > I've done this before on a Intel Box without much luck
> > > with the way the
> > > directory links were set to the modules directory.
> > >
> > > So do I in one word have to do this?
> > >
> > > Regards
> > > ===
> > > Wayne Allison.
> > > --------------
> > >
> ===
> Wayne Allison.
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Dan
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