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        I would like to share my RedHat 4.0 installation nighmare(s) in hopes
that someone else has fixed what I can not.

        First, my setup.  I am running an AMD 486-133, 40 MB RAM, 2x545 MB
Seagates, 210 MB Maxtor (all swap), ATI Xpression 64, onboard EIDE, 2 NE2000
ethernet cards, and Future Domain 1600 SCSI.  The system used to run Slackware
3.0 without a hitch.

        I attempted to setup RedHat 4.0 by FTP installation.  The images I
used (from ftp.redhat.com, the fixed disk images) worked fine and I was able
to grab all the packages in about 30 mins.  There were no errors until I
attempted to install lilo through the RedHat installer.  It would return an
error message and hop back to the lilo installation menu.

        This was a (somewhat) EZ fix when I realized that lilo.conf points to
/boot/vmlinuz not /boot/vmlinuz-2.18.0.  With that corrected, I rebooted to a
series of missing library errors.  I am unable to login (without a boot disk)
as one of the shared libraries (lib.so.1) is reported missing (even though it
is where is is supposed to be).

        This is not an isolated error: I reinstalled RH4 from scratch with the
same result.  My question: is the RedHat 4.0 FTP installation flawed and
missing more links than just the vmlinuz glitch?  

        Thanks in advance.
        James Byers

]         I would like to share my RedHat 4.0 installation nighmare(s) in hopes
] that someone else has fixed what I can not.
]

Hi!

I recently set up an old battered 386 with RedHat 4.0 just to use it
as a print server and a single PPP server. The installation worked
fine (of course it took over 1.5 hours to install only about 80MB of
stuff) - I installed via ftp.

I have upgraded the machine so far to 2.0.23 and it works really well,
but there just a couple of glitches which I haven't figured out yet.
First of all, the .rhosts files do not work. For any of the users, the
.shellrc files do not work. I have tried tcsh, bash, and when I log
in, the rc files or the .login file is never executed. However, for
bash, if I run bash from the command prompt, it reads the .bashrc
file, but when the shell starts the files are never read.

Can anyone guess why this is happening? I don't have any problems
otherwise with the system. It works great as a print server (using
regular unix lpd as well as using the Samba protocol), and it works
great as a ppp server too.

Thanks a lot!

Jit.

Quote:>I recently set up an old battered 386 with RedHat 4.0 just to use it
>as a print server and a single PPP server. The installation worked
>fine (of course it took over 1.5 hours to install only about 80MB of
>stuff) - I installed via ftp.

>I have upgraded the machine so far to 2.0.23 and it works really well,
>but there just a couple of glitches which I haven't figured out yet.
>First of all, the .rhosts files do not work. For any of the users, the

Quote:>.shellrc files do not work. I have tried tcsh, bash, and when I log
>in, the rc files or the .login file is never executed. However, for
>bash, if I run bash from the command prompt, it reads the .bashrc
>file, but when the shell starts the files are never read.

>Can anyone guess why this is happening? I don't have any problems
>otherwise with the system. It works great as a print server (using
>regular unix lpd as well as using the Samba protocol), and it works
>great as a ppp server too.

--Donnie

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Quote:>.shellrc files do not work. I have tried tcsh, bash, and when I log
>in, the rc files or the .login file is never executed. However, for

# .bash_profile

# Get the aliases and functions
if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
        . ~/.bashrc
fi

Best,
Marc
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