Sorry I'm late, just noticed this thread. I've got xfs running fine
using latest Mandrake without any aparent problems. They did do a goofy
thing though. the e2fsprogs rpm was 'renamed' to
libext2fs-devel-1.19-4mdk under Mandrake 8.0 You do need to install it
manually after the regular install. This will provide the libuuid.so
etc.. libraries you need to successfully build xfs-progs. I'm not so
sure that I like the way their latest installer goes - the old one let
you choose a 'Developer' mode and it installed most everything. Anyway,
sounds like I'm too little, too late, but just wanted to let you know
that it can be done and how to do it. Hope that helps for the future.
-Walt
Ric Tibbetts wrote:
I've surrendered the Mandrake battle. 3 days of it was enough. The box
now has Redhat 7.1 on it (again), and all is working well.
Mandrake 'Looks" nice out of the box, but it's way to brittle. 3 days of
battles jsut trying to get XFS on it is over the top.
I'd still like to make it work, but "work" is what it was. And it's not
necessary, since I can do it with Redhat in less time and far less
trouble.
Thanks for the help.
Ric
Seth Mos wrote:
At 09:45 28-4-2001 -0700, Ric Tibbetts wrote:
Keith Owens wrote:
On Fri, 27 Apr 2001 22:40:14 -0700,
Ric Tibbetts <ric@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
There isn't even an e2fsprogs-devel package available for intel. At
least not that's included on the CDs.
A check at rpmfind turns up several of them, from lots of distributions,
but not Mandrake. At least not at the correct revision level, and
platform.
I did manage to find one that looked close. So I grabbed it.
The result of installing it via:
rpm -ivh e2fsprogs-devel-1.19-1.i586.rpm
On Fri, 27 Apr 2001 22:42:15 -0700,
Ric Tibbetts <ric@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Ok... the build just died on:
gcc: /usr/lib/libuuid.a: No such file or directory
make[1]: *** [xfs_db] Error 1
make: *** [default] Error 2
So we're back to the uuid problem. Any thoughts?
Do not install binary rpms from other distributions. Get the ext2
source rpm for mandrake then build from source. Remove all the
existing ext2 packages and install from your just compiled binary rpms.
There is no point in guessing what some other distribution has done for
uuid.
<grin>
did that, and this problem went away. It was just a matter of figuring
out what package Mandrake hid it in. With that done, and the proper
package installed, everything build fine.
So that part is cured. THANK YOU to everyone who responded.
Now if I can just fingure out the console problem... :(
(the line you're typing on "at the console" flickers & dissapears...
Really strange. Makes it impossible to use.).
Any thoughts on that one?
I now that that console in general uses readline.
What shell are you using?
What videocard?
Any special compile options, framebuffer support, videomode selection.
It's a bit harder to find out what's wrong.
--
Seth
Every program has two purposes
one for which it was written and
another for which it wasn't
I make the last kind.
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