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Re: [Rule-list] Re: no ppp support in install kernel?
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Michael Fratoni |
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Re: [Rule-list] Re: no ppp support in install kernel? |
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Sun, 19 May 2002 00:25:09 -0400 |
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On Saturday 18 May 2002 12:53 pm, Raymundo Baquirin wrote:
Hi Raymundo,
> I'm finally reunited with the serial cable and tried the setup with
> slattach again. But no joy. I can't ping either machine from the
> other.
I decided to try along with you. I grabbed an old abandoned laptop from
work (Zeos 486, 8M of RAM, 80M hard drive, external floppy), and made a
null modem cable.
> What I did:
> On my desktop machine:
> slattach -p slip -s 19200 /dev/ttyS1 &
> ifconfig sl0 192.168.1.1 pointopoint 192.168.1.2 up
> route add -host 192.168.1.2 sl0
I did about the same, but route add shouldn't be required.
The trick it turns out to have both machines connected, and running before
you bring up the interface on either.
> On the laptop:
> insmod slhc.o # load kernel
> ./slattach -p slip -s 19200 /dev/ttyS0 &
> ifconfig sl0 192.168.1.2 pointopoint 192.168.1.1 up
Snipped down to the commands I had to use. The only thing I found that
needed to be changed is the ipconfig syntax. Busybox uses an older
ifconfig, it seems.
The command on the laptop needs to be:
ifconfig sl0 192.168.1.2 dstaddr 192.168.1.1
> I did notice in the slinky boot messages that the serial ports are
> called ttyS00 and ttyS01. I tried making a ttyS00 device instead of
> ttyS0 but still got no ping.
I see the same thing in the logs on both machines. ttyS0 works for me,
though.
Now, more detail. I got it working, and managed to nfs mount the rpms.
However, it timed out everytime. Regardless of various nfs options, it
times out just trying to get a directory listing of
/mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS. I can get as far as listing /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/,
but even that is slow.
After a lot of wasted time, I gave up.
Then, I decided to try an HTTP install. Due to disk space problems on the
laptop, I only allowed the installer to run through the copying of disk2,
and doing the pivot root. Then I killed the installer, and ran the rpm
commands manually so I could select only a bare minimum of packages.
It's installing slowly now. The downloading of glibc-common has taken over
a half hour so far, and it's just half done. I believe I've done 5 or 6
packages so far. :)
I'll let the install continue, but having seen the results, this isn't an
install method I plan on supporting in any fashion. :) The slip network
link is just too slow. If I rebuild the kernel and include cslip support,
it might help, though I'm not sure of even that.
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- -Michael
pgp key: http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/gpgkey.txt
Red Hat Linux 7.2 in 8M of RAM: http://www.rule-project.org/
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