Re: [Sheflug] Hi

["Alex Hudson" <nospam [at] york.ac.uk>]

> Hi Richard,

. & everyone else ;) Was that intentional?? Heh ;) Or, d'oh, depending on
your point of view ;)

> First, on my Mandrake box I,ve been trying to compile a new kernel using
the
> rtlinux-2.2a-prepatched kernel which other people have got working OK.
> However, on my machine I don't seem to be able to get it to go right
through
> to making the bzImage. I've attached a screen shot of the last few
messages
> with the errors I get after 'make bzImage' has run its course. Any ideas
> why? Perhaps I have missed installing some auxiliary piece of software but
I
> can't figure out what and it seems to be looking for an 'as86' command and
a
> 'bootsect.o' file which I can't find.

as86 - 80x86 assembler. You've done something very strange there. It's in
binutils (I think?), and I don't really see how your system has been able to
compile any modules without it, but there we go...

BTW, a neat trick to pop stuff like this into a text file:
make bzImage 2>&1 > debug.out
Having done that you get a text file, debug.out, that has all the output
from the compilation. That would be considerably smaller than a png, and
will mean you don't have to keep putting these christmas turkeys in the
post - I only have a 9'600 baud modem, you know ;)) BTW, your background
image is awful ;P

> Second, since I last reloaded Mandrake, I can't get my Windoze box to see
it
> on the network - it works fine the other way round and I can suck stuff
> across using Samba but 'network neighbourhood' on the win box just doesn't
> see the linux one. I'm sure I've only missed something very obvious and
> fundamental but I just don't seem to be able to work out what. Can you
help
> please?

Have you configured SAMBA to share anything out?

> Finally, I've been trying to load linux onto another P II machine with
> strange results. It won't accept either RedHat 6.2 or Mandrake 7 - both of
> them lock up when they go off looking for the SCSI controller which is
> on-board - but I have got it to load Caldera 2.2 (which seems to again be
> based on the RedHat stuff as it uses .rpm packages). However, what is
> puzzling me is that, on the KDE desktop, none of the windows display the
> usual X-in-a-box close window symbol. Any idea if this is just a quirk of
> Caldera or is it worth reloading KDE?

Go into the KDE configuration options. There is a window configuration
option, where you can move around the main buttons and take them off if
requested. You should be able to turn close off in there ;)

Cheers,

Alex.

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