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RE: [TCLUG:224] RE: LUG - bash error and fat32



hrm.. well "vi" to view files? no way.. "less"
my emacs/vi debate views
vi: system file editor.. /etc/*
emacs: code development system.. C coding
pico: system file editor for lazy asses.. like me :)

i don't know what you did wrong.. (or redhat did wrong) but things on your
system just don't seem to be very happy.. 

UHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.. /usr is empty.. i think that might be the problem.. hehe
unless you are like me, your /usr is the same partiton as your /  you need to
reinstall :(

well.. you have a couple of options.. PnP modems are sometimes a slight problem
to work with.. my suggestion is this.. find out exactly what kind of modem it
is.. and post it back to the list.. then from there we should be able to
determin what you can do to get it supported.. (give us the IRQ/IO address
win95 tells you)

dos/win95 limits the partition size to 2 gig.. you can have more than one.
partition.. so that would be the only way around it.. 

On 20-May-98 Randle Boyd wrote:
> As always, thanks to everyone that replied.  I did some more checking on
> the problem below.  I checked $PATH, and it looks like this:
> 
> /sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/x11r6/bin:/usr/sbin/mh:/root/bin
> 
> Does this look about right for  'out of the box'  RH5.0?
> 
> I am also not able to use some other commands/programs while either
> logged in as root or as another user. Here are a few of the commands and
> the messages that were returned:
> 
>       # emacs
>       bash: emacs: command not found
>       (as an aside, I was forced to learn to use vi to view files:-) )
>        
> 
>       # ls -l | more
>       more: error in loading shared libraries libncurses.so.3: cannot open
>       shared object file:  No such file or directory.  
> 
>       #man grep
>       bash: man: command not found
> 
> I also noticed that /usr now only contains '.', and '..'.  I think there
> used to be many more files in that directory.  Do you think this could
> be the problem?  If so, is there a way to get the files back in that
> directory?  Or, is a reinstallation necessary/easier?
> 
> I've asked quite a few questions lately about PPP and FAT32 support, and
> like I said, I greatly appreciate al the help.  Besides learning, my
> main objective for getting these two items working is to download a
> working java and the 'Code Warrior' clone.  Since I have not yet been
> able to get my PNP modem working under RH5.0, I was hoping to FTP java
> and 'Code Warrior' using windows 95, mount that drive under Linux, copy
> it to the linux partition on my hard drive, and install (I'm this will
> be a whole new learning experience).  However, as has been pointed out
> to me, RH5.0 does not come out of the box with FAT32 support.  A patch
> must be downloaded and applied.  The classic 'chicken or the egg'.  
> 
> ! am wondering if  on my single 5 gig hard drive, I could reformat a
> portion of my current windows fat32 partition as dos/fat16?  If so,
> would I then be able to download the fat32 patch using windows, copy it
> to this newly created fat16/dos partition, mount this partition under
> linux, copy the patch to a linux partition, then apply it?  Does this
> sound like it would work?  Does anyone have any better ideas?
> 
> Thanks Again,
> Randle
> 
>>----------
>>From:         Steve Fuller[SMTP:sfuller@netins.net]
>>Sent:         Tuesday, May 19, 1998 12:43 PM
>>To:   'lug@visionary.com'
>>Subject:      Re: LUG - bash error and fat32
>>
>>On Tue, 19 May 1998, Randle Boyd wrote
>>
>>> PART 2
>>> After closing everything down, and using the 'shutdown -h now' command,
>>> I turned off the computer.  Later I came back, logged in as root, and
>>> got the following message:
>>> 
>>>     bash: id: command not found
>>>     bash: id: command not found
>>>     bash: id: command not found
>>>     [:too many arguments
>>>     bash: id: command not found
>>>     bash: mesg: command not found
>>>     [root@localhost /root] #
>>> 
>>> when I typed 'startx', I got the following message:
>>>     bash: startx: command not found
>>
>>Almost sounds to me like your path got messed up somewhere along the line.
>>I'd check your /etc/profile or one of the dot files in your home directory
>>and add if something is amiss there. It could be something as simple as
>>having left out a " or a ' somewhere. 
>>
>>My $0.02 worth.
>>
>>Steve Fuller                              I will choose the path that's clear
>>sfuller@netins.net                        I will choose freewill  -- N. Peart
>>UNDERNET: sfuller   
>>      
>>
>>
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TTYL,
        Ben Kochie (ben@intexp.com)

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