Mailing List Archive: [somewhat off-topic] Re: Trouble installing netfilter/iptables (long)

[somewhat off-topic] Re: Trouble installing netfilter/iptables (long)

Aug 8, 2001, 5:15 AM

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On Wednesday 08 August 2001 01:42 pm, you wrote:
> Of course I am a newbie,
> Questions of installation as I am doing a kernel compilation now and
> reading over previous emails posted to the list
> In the following I missed a few things in this process, I think, ...
>
> Not trying to complain or anything but cant the "make config" do just a
> "little" bit of probing the HW??? there were like 300 questions in the
> process of doing this. I am almost certain that I missed a few things
> and said Y/N to a couple of things I shouldn't have.
>

What you're not thinking about is those poor other fools who's running linux
on 486's with 100 megs hdd and 12 megs ram(*cough*, yes, im talking about
myself here;)) who dont have enough hdd space to even unpack the kernel on
the box in question, actually dont even have a compiler on the system.

I need to do a nice procedure of download, untar, configure and crosscompile
on another box, then throw the kernel over on the box in question and install
it.

If the kernel configuration would've been done automatically, it would've
found a nice little pIII 1.3ghz cpu with 1 100mbps nic etc instead of a 486
at 50mhz and 1x10mbps nic.... Well, you see the problem, don't you? All of
those 300 questions are just wonderful for foolish people like me who loves
having our 486's around;)

- --
Oskar Andreasson
Multisoft Education AB
Cell: +46-736-524228
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RE: [somewhat off-topic] Re: Trouble installing netfilter/iptables (long) [ In reply to ]

rwideman at austin

Aug 8, 2001, 9:55 AM

Post #2 of 3 (512 views)

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well, what i meant was there could be an option for probing the HW is that
is an option with the persons system, kinda like:
-Hey, Would you like me to probe your HW and look over the settings?
-(good if you have large HD and newer system, bad if no HD space and older
system)
-[Y,n]
or something like that.
I am moving this question to the kernel mailing list for the guys that are
saying "this is really for the kernel mailing list". I originally found
this email in this mailing list but might be a little weird for this one.
But i will ask my question to you guys, if you want to answer thats great,
if not then leave it upto the kernel doods.

Qustions:
1-does "make menuconfig" require X to be installed? I dont have X, i just
have RH 7.1 with kernel dev and kernel sources installed (atleast those were
the ONLY things i had selected during install).
2-if i untared/unpacked the kernel to the folder /root/newkern (here is
where i did the "gzip -cd linux 2.4.7...... |tar xvf -" command) is it ok to
delete the newkern folder and unpack nd then do the "make menuconfig"?
Thanks

Rob

> -----Original Message-----
> From: netfilter-admin@lists.samba.org
> [mailto:netfilter-admin@lists.samba.org]On Behalf Of Oskar Andreasson
> Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 7:15 AM
> To: Rob
> Cc: netfilter@lists.samba.org
> Subject: [somewhat off-topic] Re: Trouble installing netfilter/iptables
> (long)
>
>
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> On Wednesday 08 August 2001 01:42 pm, you wrote:
> > Of course I am a newbie,
> > Questions of installation as I am doing a kernel compilation now and
> > reading over previous emails posted to the list
> > In the following I missed a few things in this process, I think, ...
> >
> > Not trying to complain or anything but cant the "make config" do just a
> > "little" bit of probing the HW??? there were like 300 questions in the
> > process of doing this. I am almost certain that I missed a few things
> > and said Y/N to a couple of things I shouldn't have.
> >
>
> What you're not thinking about is those poor other fools who's
> running linux
> on 486's with 100 megs hdd and 12 megs ram(*cough*, yes, im talking about
> myself here;)) who dont have enough hdd space to even unpack the
> kernel on
> the box in question, actually dont even have a compiler on the system.
>
> I need to do a nice procedure of download, untar, configure and
> crosscompile
> on another box, then throw the kernel over on the box in question
> and install
> it.
>
> If the kernel configuration would've been done automatically, it would've
> found a nice little pIII 1.3ghz cpu with 1 100mbps nic etc
> instead of a 486
> at 50mhz and 1x10mbps nic.... Well, you see the problem, don't
> you? All of
> those 300 questions are just wonderful for foolish people like me
> who loves
> having our 486's around;)
>
>
> - --
> Oskar Andreasson
> Multisoft Education AB
> Cell: +46-736-524228
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Re: [somewhat off-topic] Re: Trouble installing netfilter/iptables (long) [ In reply to ]

stran at immostreet

Aug 8, 2001, 9:58 AM

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1- "make menuconfig" doesn't require X, but ncurses libraries. Just try.

2- I would do :
# tar xvzf linux 2.4.7 -C /usr/src (make sure you don't have a folder called
"linux" in /usr/src; rename it in case)
# cd /usr/src
# mv linux/ linux-2.4.7
# ln -s linux-2.4.7/ linux
# cd /usr/src/linux
# make mrproper
# make menuconfig (configure your kernel)
# make dep; make clean; make bzlilo; make modules; make modules_install
(modify your /etc/lilo.conf if needed and issue the command "lilo")
# reboot

Rob wrote:

> well, what i meant was there could be an option for probing the HW is that
> is an option with the persons system, kinda like:
> -Hey, Would you like me to probe your HW and look over the settings?
> -(good if you have large HD and newer system, bad if no HD space and older
> system)
> -[Y,n]
> or something like that.
> I am moving this question to the kernel mailing list for the guys that are
> saying "this is really for the kernel mailing list". I originally found
> this email in this mailing list but might be a little weird for this one.
> But i will ask my question to you guys, if you want to answer thats great,
> if not then leave it upto the kernel doods.
>
> Qustions:
> 1-does "make menuconfig" require X to be installed? I dont have X, i just
> have RH 7.1 with kernel dev and kernel sources installed (atleast those were
> the ONLY things i had selected during install).
> 2-if i untared/unpacked the kernel to the folder /root/newkern (here is
> where i did the "gzip -cd linux 2.4.7...... |tar xvf -" command) is it ok to
> delete the newkern folder and unpack nd then do the "make menuconfig"?
> Thanks
>
> Rob
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: netfilter-admin@lists.samba.org
> > [mailto:netfilter-admin@lists.samba.org]On Behalf Of Oskar Andreasson
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 7:15 AM
> > To: Rob
> > Cc: netfilter@lists.samba.org
> > Subject: [somewhat off-topic] Re: Trouble installing netfilter/iptables
> > (long)
> >
> >
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> > On Wednesday 08 August 2001 01:42 pm, you wrote:
> > > Of course I am a newbie,
> > > Questions of installation as I am doing a kernel compilation now and
> > > reading over previous emails posted to the list
> > > In the following I missed a few things in this process, I think, ...
> > >
> > > Not trying to complain or anything but cant the "make config" do just a
> > > "little" bit of probing the HW??? there were like 300 questions in the
> > > process of doing this. I am almost certain that I missed a few things
> > > and said Y/N to a couple of things I shouldn't have.
> > >
> >
> > What you're not thinking about is those poor other fools who's
> > running linux
> > on 486's with 100 megs hdd and 12 megs ram(*cough*, yes, im talking about
> > myself here;)) who dont have enough hdd space to even unpack the
> > kernel on
> > the box in question, actually dont even have a compiler on the system.
> >
> > I need to do a nice procedure of download, untar, configure and
> > crosscompile
> > on another box, then throw the kernel over on the box in question
> > and install
> > it.
> >
> > If the kernel configuration would've been done automatically, it would've
> > found a nice little pIII 1.3ghz cpu with 1 100mbps nic etc
> > instead of a 486
> > at 50mhz and 1x10mbps nic.... Well, you see the problem, don't
> > you? All of
> > those 300 questions are just wonderful for foolish people like me
> > who loves
> > having our 486's around;)
> >
> >
> > - --
> > Oskar Andreasson
> > Multisoft Education AB
> > Cell: +46-736-524228
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