Michal Jaegermann (michal@ellpspace.math.ualberta.ca)
Fri, 23 Apr 1999 13:52:36 -0600 (MDT)
Mark Henry wrote:
>
> It would seem to me though, that seeing as how I have not modified the
> contents of any of the directories since downloading it, then hdlist should
> be accurate?
If it indeed exists and corresponds to a disk contents.
By a pure chance I have seen the same message today. The problem turned
out to be a faulty eb64p kernel on 5.2 distribution CD. An installation
process did not mount CD, but was quiet about it, and on the next screen
I got "...cannot find the header file". This was indeed the case as
there was nothing to find. :-) You can check what is really available
by switching at this moment to the second console (Alt-F2) and typing
'mount'. If you do not have CD mounted on /tmp/rhimage then you
are in trouble.
The problem was solved by booting the 'generic' kernel from the same CD,
instead of a platform specific one; CD got mounted and from this moment
on everything was happy.
> Assuming then I must rebuild this file, how do I achieve this without having
> linux up and running?
At this moment I do not know of any method to do that without some Linux
machine around. It does not have to be the same architecture. C
sources for this utility are available and likely can be adapted to any
other Unix machine with a C compiler. I was modifying it when I needed
something not exactly "usual" but this was on Linux. It likely would be
hard to do that on some DOS box, including derivatives, as file names
have to be case sensitive and with many dots in them.
BTW - not modifying 5.2 distribution is not a very hot idea as there
were number of updates and quite a few of these were rather essential.
Of course you can install and update results immediately. Some of
important updates were new installation images (ramdisk in particular)
which showed up very quickly after an initial release.
Michal
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