Perret,

On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, Perret Yannick wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I had installed several SL (3.02) on various machines, and
> I have some questions :
>
> First, I use openAFS with the given RPMs in SL. But for
> internal reasons we want to add some options to the openAFS
> configure. So I installed the corresponding SRPM and before
> anything I just do
> "cd /usr/src/redhat ; rpmbuild -ba SPECS/openafs-1.2.11.SL.spec".
> And it fails: the configure complains about missing sys_call_table,
> after a warning about the configure is for Red Hat:
> ...
> configure: warning: Configured to build from a Red Hat SPEC file
> ...
> configure: error: no available sys_call_table access method
> Of course I copied the corresponding .config for the kernel and
> do the "make dep" before that.
> # uname -a
> Linux XXXXX 2.4.21-15.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed May 12 19:06:46 CDT 2004 i686
> i686 i386 GNU/Linux
> -> /usr/src/linux-2.4/configs/kernel-2.4.21-i686-smp.config
>
> Is it a know problem ? I do something wrong ? Thank in advance
> for any help.
>
>
> I also have a question about 32/64 bit support...
> Is it possible to install a x86_64 version (on bi-opteron) and then
> install "by hand" all the i386 RPMs ? Is the final system viable ?
> I made some tests for a small amount of RPMs and it seems to
> work fine.
> Any comments ?
>
> At last I have a question about anaconda (I know it is not really the
> good place but maybe someone can help us):
> from the RHEL3/SL3, the anaconda asks for the ethernet card to use
> for the installation (in kickstart mode), even if only one card is plugged
> and even if the configuration in the kickstart file indicates clearly that
> only the first one can be used. It is a change from the previous
> distributions
> as it never do that for RH72/73. I tried to see inside the anaconda sources
> but it is a little bit too big for me.
> Someone else met that problem ?

Can you send your kickstart file.

Thanks

-Connie Sieh
>
> Thank in advance for any help/comment/documentation.
>
> --
> Yannick Perret
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