Successful Install on SuSE 6.3

["Harri Wehrli" <harri.wehrli@piping.georgfischer.com>]

Hello!

First I'd like to congratulate Eduardo, Steve and Patrick for their great work!!!

Just now I installed DECnet on a SuSE 6.3 Linux box and it works fine. 
Originally it had the 2.2.13 kernel which I upgraded to 2.2.14.

I had some little problems, which I'd like you to know 
(if someone else tries it on the same distribution).

My machine is a Pentium 166 with a Microdyne NE5500
network card but the driver ist for a "AMD PCI PCnet32 (PCI bus NE2100)"
which work fine with TCP/IP.
The dnprogs I installed with the dnprogs-2.04-1.i386.rpm.
(Suse uses RPM since 5.0)

In the file /etc/rc.d/init.d/decnet (wich is in Suse exactly the same as
/sbin/init.d/decnet, there are some links...) is at the third line the 
name "decnet.sh" wich is wrong.
And it is not necessary to distinguish between RedHat and Suse here.

The right link for the relevant runlevel startup should be
ln -s /sbin/init.d/decnet /sbin/init.d/rc2.d/S06decnet
or ln -s /etc/rc.d/init.d/decnet /etc/rc.d/rc2.d/S06decnet
(which ist the same) and not
ln -s /sbin/init.d/decnet.sh /sbin/init.d/rc2.d/S05decnet
because there isn't a script named decnet.sh
and in S05 there is also the link to start the network (S05network) by default.
So, because "decnet" comes before "network" in alphabetical order, 
the pc tries to start decnet before the network and hangs with the 
"Starting Decnet:" prompt at startup (and no Ctrl-Alt-Del will free it).

On the page http://linux.dreamtime.org/decnet/kernel.html you write that 
"This code set runs on kernels 2.0.35/36 and 2.2.0... "
Shouldn't it be 2.2.14?
I think there should also be a reference to the RPM-Distribution here
(under point 3)
And also the "make zImage" would be better changed to "make bzImage" I think.

Best regards

Harri

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Harri Wehrli
System manager
GEORGE FISCHER PIPING SYSTEMS LTD.
CH-8201 Schaffhausen / Switzerland


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