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Kevin Littlejohn (darius@tandem.wantree.com.au) wrote:

I **HIGHLY** recommend backing up your user stuff, and
installing Red Hat ELF from scratch.. 
VERY nice and stable installation.. Im very impressed

Anthony

: Hi all,
: 
: I've somehow managed to munge my linux system up during an upgrade to
: ELF.  What I had is as follows:
: 
: Slackware 2.2.0 (originally), 1.2.13 kernel, various small upgrades, but
: not the gcc or libc packages.  Everything _should_ be fairly standard...
: 
: I followed the instructions I had (from a web page somewheres), and seem to
: now be able to run and compile ELF programs.  However, I have two rather
: major problems still plagueing me, possibly related, and another smaller
: problem also.
: 
: 1) login.  For some reason, when I attempt to telnet in from a remote site,
: or login on a terminal attached to the serial port on the machine, it asks
: for my login name and password, echos the password to the screen, and
: sits there, looking at me :(.  Seems suspiciously like it no longer knows
: how to turn the screen-echoing off, and panics shortly thereafter....?
: 
: 2) X-Windows.  Always a problem... When I startx, or init 6 (X-Windows being
: run on an init 6 :), it seems to boot up ok, gives me all the standard
: logging messages, changes the screen mode, then freezes.  Completely.  Even
: a 3-finger salute does nothing :(.
: 
: 3) Kernel.  I didn't really expect to be able to compile the kernel, but it
: appears I should be able to add a couple of flags to the compiler to tell it
: to grab the a.out libraries and etc.  I did this, and am getting assembler
: errors, of all things!  I don't have the errors on me, unfortunately, but if
: anyone has any suspiscions re: this, I'll post them :)
: 
: Hope someone out there has some idea of what is going on, as I'm frankly
: stumped :(
: 
: Thanks,
: KevinL
: 
: 

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