tlug: Now on TL-J 1.4

["3Web - Jonathan Byrne" <jq@example.com>]

I sent this out once a couple of hours ago, but it seems to have gone into
the bit bucket somewhere.  At least, I never got a copy of it back from the
TLUG list, or any answer, so those things constitute likely evidence that
the first message got zapped.  So here it is again, and apologies if you've
all seen this already.

The install of Turbo Linux 1.4J went really smoothly on my home machine (and
I think I'm the first person outside of PHT in the whole world to install
the release version :-)   ), but when I installed it on my machine at work,
I ran into a few problems:

1) The swap file problem familiar from Red Hat.  Running RHS Linux File
Manager says that "/dev/hda5 appears to have been deleted.  Shall I remove
it from fstab?"  I always say "no" since I don't think it's really deleted.
At least it appears in the list of partitions visible in RHS.

2) The CD-ROM drive wasn't accessible.  RHS said it couldn't find /dev/hdc
in fstab or mtab.  I manually added it and that seems to solve the problem.
But if you type mount /mnt/cdrom at a Kterm, you get a message that iso9660
file system is not supported by the kernel.  I had no trouble with the
CD-ROM drive on my home machine.

3) It's not talking to the 3Com card anymore.  Activating it with the
network tool (it always shows inactive) will let me ping machines on my LAN,
but even then Netscape can't access any sites.  Saving the configuration
with it set to active is unsuccessful, since it shows inactive again if I
restart the network tool.  At boot, I can also see this message: modprobe:
can't locate module eth0.  Does that mean the module is missing from the new
kernel?

Thoughts/opinions/advice on all of these problems (especially number 3)
would be most welcome.

Thanks!

Jonathan Byrne <E-mail:jq@example.com>
Media and Content Section
3Web - Your Internet Solution! <URL:http://www.threeweb.ad.jp/index.en.html>


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