linux
Overview of installing Arch Linux
Build a Killer Customized Arch Linux Installation (and Learn All About Linux in the Process) has a good overview.
But in all honesty, Arch Linux does a pretty good job. The main point I got from the above link was to make sure to edit /etc/rc.conf.
Compiling XDR for NFSv4 on Linux
On Fedora at least, you need:
sudo yum -y install libgssglue-devel
sudo yum -y install nfs-utils-lib-devel
in order to get this to work.
Update: For modern Fedora systems:
sudo yum install -y nfs-utils libtirpc-devel
seems to do the trick!
Configuring Fedora Core 14 network interfaces in a dual-hosted VM
I’ve got several VMs running with eth0 being bridged and eth1 being host only. I see the routes:
[thomas@mage ~]$ ip route 192.168.1.0/24 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.1.21 172.16.1.0/24 dev eth1 proto kernel scope link src 172.16.1.3 default via 172.16.1.1 dev eth1
The problem being that is flipped from what I want for the default route. I suspect the issue is that eth0 is set up to be configured via DHCP.
I read a bit and it was suggested that not only does /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 have to have:
DEFROUTE=yes
But /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 should have:
DEFROUTE=no
I made that change and cleared that hurdle:
[thomas@mage ~]$ ip route 192.168.1.0/24 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.1.21 172.16.1.0/24 dev eth1 proto kernel scope link src 172.16.1.3 default via 192.168.1.1 dev eth0
FWIW, here are my config files:
[thomas@mage ~]$ more /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth? :::::::::::::: /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 :::::::::::::: DEVICE="eth0" NM_CONTROLLED="no" ONBOOT=yes HWADDR=00:50:56:2E:52:F0 TYPE=Ethernet BOOTPROTO=dhcp DEFROUTE=yes PEERROUTES=yes IPV6INIT=no UUID=5fb06bd0-0bb0-7ffb-45f1-d6edd65f3e03 :::::::::::::: /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 :::::::::::::: DEVICE=eth1 HWADDR=00:0C:29:97:74:DB TYPE=Ethernet BOOTPROTO=none IPADDR=172.16.1.3 PREFIX=24 GATEWAY=172.16.1.1 DNS1=172.16.1.2 DOMAIN=internal.loghyr.com IPV4_FAILURE_FATAL=yes IPV6INIT=no UUID=539d9802-fe1a-4b44-8d80-8a03f35aa844 ONBOOT=yes DEFROUTE=no
Building SlugOS 5.3-beta on Fedora Core 14
102 yum install help2man 104 yum install texi2html 116 yum install glibc-static 117 vi /kanigix/slugos/5.3/slugos-nslu2be.tmp/work/x86_64-linux/unifdef-native-2.6.18+git-r0/unifdef.c
The last was to change getline() to getline2() to avoid a conflict.
Very nasty one here for this message:
[tdh@wont 5.3]$ more /kanigix/slugos/5.3/slugos-nslu2be.tmp/work/armv5teb-linux-gnueabi/linux-libc-headers-2.6.23-r3/temp/log.do_configure.13663 NOTE: make -e MAKEFLAGS= allnoconfig ARCH=arm Makefile:416: *** mixed implicit and normal rules. Stop. FATAL: oe_runmake failed
(Note: You could probably build easier against make-3.81 instead of make-3.82 !)
Edit these two files to apply this diff:
[tdh@wont 5.3]$ find . -name Makefile | grep glibc | grep manual./slugos-nslu2be.tmp/work/armv5teb-linux-gnueabi/glibc-initial-2.6.1-r15/glibc-2.6.1/manual/Makefile ./slugos-nslu2be.tmp/work/armv5teb-linux-gnueabi/glibc-2.6.1-r15/glibc-2.6.1/manual/Makefile
And also apply this patch to
/kanigix/slugos/5.3/slugos-nslu2be.tmp/work/armv5teb-linux-gnueabi/linux-libc-headers-2.6.23-r3/linux-2.6.23/Makefile
[tdh@wont linux-2.6.23]$ diff -u Makefile Makefile.STOCK --- Makefile 2010-12-29 18:23:58.176755981 -0600 +++ Makefile.STOCK 2010-12-29 18:21:43.405298124 -0600 @@ -413,11 +413,7 @@ include $(srctree)/arch/$(ARCH)/Makefile export KBUILD_DEFCONFIG -config: scripts_basic outputmakefile FORCE - $(Q)mkdir -p include/linux include/config - $(Q)$(MAKE) $(build)=scripts/kconfig $@ - -%config: scripts_basic outputmakefile FORCE +config %config: scripts_basic outputmakefile FORCE $(Q)mkdir -p include/linux include/config $(Q)$(MAKE) $(build)=scripts/kconfig $@ @@ -1467,10 +1463,7 @@ $(Q)$(MAKE) $(build)=$(build-dir) $(target-dir)$(notdir $@) # Modules -/: prepare scripts FORCE - $(Q)$(MAKE) KBUILD_MODULES=$(if $(CONFIG_MODULES),1) \ - $(build)=$(build-dir) -%/: prepare scripts FORCE +/ %/: prepare scripts FORCE $(Q)$(MAKE) KBUILD_MODULES=$(if $(CONFIG_MODULES),1) \ $(build)=$(build-dir) %.ko: prepare scripts FORCE
And do the getline2() trick here:
/kanigix/slugos/5.3/slugos-nslu2be.tmp/work/armv5teb-linux-gnueabi/linux-libc-headers-2.6.23-r3/linux-2.6.23/scripts/unifdef.c
And more:
[tdh@wont busybox-1.13.2]$ pwd /kanigix/slugos/5.3/slugos-nslu2be.tmp/work/armv5teb-linux-gnueabi/busybox-1.13.2-r16/busybox-1.13.2 [tdh@wont busybox-1.13.2]$ diff Makefile Makefile.STOCK 421,425c421 < config: scripts_basic outputmakefile FORCE < $(Q)mkdir -p include < $(Q)$(MAKE) $(build)=scripts/kconfig $@ < $(Q)$(MAKE) -C $(srctree) KBUILD_SRC= .kernelrelease < %config: scripts_basic outputmakefile FORCE --- > config %config: scripts_basic outputmakefile FORCE 1273,1276c1269 < /: prepare scripts FORCE < $(Q)$(MAKE) KBUILD_MODULES=$(if $(CONFIG_MODULES),1) \ < $(build)=$(build-dir) < %/: prepare scripts FORCE --- > / %/: prepare scripts FORCE
Keep on fixing these as you found they broke. Consider again trying make-3.81!
Annoying lag in “command not found”
[tdh@wont ~]$ jjj Command not found.
Followed by an annoying lag. FC13 does not do this, but FC14 does.
It turns out there is a package called PackageKit-command-not-found and it is controlling this behavior.
[root@wont PackageKit]# pwd /etc/PackageKit [root@wont PackageKit]# diff CommandNotFound.conf CommandNotFound.conf.STOCK 35c35 < SoftwareSourceSearch=false --- > SoftwareSourceSearch=true
And problem solved! I.e., I want to keep the other features of the package (for now), so this gives the solution with the least impact.
Have btrfs installed and running
I went ahead and reinstalled wont with FC14 – I probably could have done a:
[root@wont ~]#Â yum install btrfs-progs [root@wont ~]#Â modprobe btrfs [root@wont ~]#Â mkfs.btrfs -L VMstordev /dev/sdb /dev/sdc /dev/sdd [root@wont ~]#Â mount /dev/sdb /kanigix
The hardest thing was getting the /etc/fstab correct because of the need to probe for devices after boot time:
/dev/sdb /kanigix btrfs defaults,device=/dev/sdb,device=/dev/sdc,device=/dev/sdd 0 1