Bill Jonas on Sun, 7 May 2000 10:59:37 -0400 (EDT)


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Re: [PLUG] pilot-link


On Sun, 7 May 2000 brian@pardis.sas.upenn.edu wrote:

>I have not been able to read anything on the O'Reilly disk.  when I mount
>the disk and run ls I get a list of the files, but ls -l tells me no file
>or directory instead of details after each name.

Some cut'n'paste output would be very helpful.  What is the command you
used to mount the CD-ROM?  Is your CD-ROM device listed in your
/etc/fstab?  (This, of course, can affect what parameters are
required for the mount command.)  From the dep't-of-the-obvious: Are you
specifying the same directory both times?  Example:

~$ ls /mnt/cdrom
[...directory listing here...]
~$ ls -l
total 0
~$

>so I downloaded gnome-pilot-0.1.51 from
>www.gnome.org/gnome-pilot/download, 
>gunzipped, etc., and ran configure, and was told that I have to specify
>host type.  what is my host type?

Here are a couple of lines of output from the 'set' command on my
system:

HOSTNAME=wally
HOSTTYPE=i686

I don't know if that's what it's asking for or not.  I'm also not sure
where $HOSTTYPE is set; I suspect that it's set from one of your init
scripts (again, I'm being Captain Obvious <g>), but I'm not sure which
one, or even where to look on yours, as I've not used RedHat.

Hopefully, someone else might be able to provide some better/more
detailed information.

HTH,
Bill
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