Very Computer

1) Got a linux rh5.1 dist of uni, I think its one of those cheapbytes
deals.

2) installed it (no real problems)

3) Couldn't mount my cdrom nor my win95fat16 drives. I found out that
the problem was that my vfat.o and isofs.o modules wernt loading, so
once I manually loaded them I could mount stuff fine (took me 2 days
to find that one out).

before I manually loaded those modules I did a 'cat /proc/filesystems'
it gave

msdos
ext2
proc
<something else I cannot remember but wanst important>

4) ran sndconfig for my SB32 PnP, it all went ok until it went to test
the sound.

it said

"error running modprobe"

(I think its called modprobe)

5) ok - so I got suspecious. I got a run manprobe

it gave me the usual --help stuff

so I tried 'manprobe -v' for the version number....it printed out the
--help sutff

I tried 'manprobe -V' ... it printed out --help stuff

I tried most of the other switches, and it either came up with the
help screen, or it did nothing.

what im asking is

1) why doesnt the kernal (I am running kernald) automatically load up
vfat or isofs when I want to mount my win95fat16 or cdrom drives.

2) whats with manprobe - is it screwed? how is it exactly meant to
act? would manprobe screwing up explain why my cdrom woulnt mount
until I manually loaded the iosfs.o module?

3) argh - i want my consle to be 80x50. I boot from floppy.

on the floppy I have /etc/lilo.conf
but on / I do not have an etc/lilo.conf

I added the line

vga=extended

onto the floppy's /etc/lilo.conf

but it still booted up in 80x25

I tried

vga=ext

samething.
What am i doing wrong? I want 80x50 dammit ! :-)

another annoying thing that didnt work:

1) running X, running moduleconfigure, it said it couldnt find
module-info-2.0.34

(its not 2.0.34 - i just cant remember the exact kernal version)

I fixed it by going to
/boot

and renameing
modeule-info-2.0.34-0.6
to
module-info-2.0.34

-Richard Maxwell

Good 4 U!

Quote:

> 2) installed it (no real problems)

2 x Good 4 U!

<minor snippage>

Quote:> 1) why doesnt the kernal (I am running kernald) automatically load up
> vfat or isofs when I want to mount my win95fat16 or cdrom drives.

It can't do that if they are not specified in /etc/conf.modules.

Quote:> 2) whats with manprobe - is it screwed? how is it exactly meant to
> act? would manprobe screwing up explain why my cdrom woulnt mount
> until I manually loaded the iosfs.o module?

It is aktually modprobe and no it is fine. You werent using
it properly. Maybe you should `insmod <name_of_module>'.

Quote:> 3) argh - i want my consle to be 80x50. I boot from floppy.

> on the floppy I have /etc/lilo.conf
> but on / I do not have an etc/lilo.conf

> I added the line

> vga=extended

> onto the floppy's /etc/lilo.conf

> but it still booted up in 80x25

> I tried

> vga=ext

> samething.
> What am i doing wrong? I want 80x50 dammit ! :-)

No need to cuss. Edit /etc/lilo.conf. The first line
should be:
        boot=/dev/fd0

The second can be:

                vga=ask

Save the file, put nice floppy in drive and run
/sbin/lilo. New lilo.conf transfered to floppy
then reboot. Select necessary kernel and note
number for 80x50 console. Change the vga=ask
line in lilo.conf to vga=number. Save, put floppy
in drive and run /sbin/lilo again. Now all should
be fine.
<more snipping to place>

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