Thanks, Byron, for the information. I've been using a bootable DOS 7 floppy to run the PC-Config program. Will look for configuration programs for the Soundblaster card and for the NIC. I can look through the CD that came with the sound card. There is more to report. Despite not being able to use the floppy drive -- I replaced the one that didn't notice a change of diskettes with another from the odd parts box, which doesn't seem to be working at all. Decided that maybe the default partitions were a problem, since I saw paging problems in the log file. Bootong to CD, I tried twice to reinstall, doing a manual partition, once from graphical interface, once by text. The graphical install hung during the formatting of the partitions stage. The text mode got into formatting and spewed some sort of dump on the screen for a few minutes until I killed it. Thought maybe there could be bad blocks, so I repeated the GUI install letting it do a bad blocks check, which took an hour or so. Happened to be sitting in front of the screen when it died in formatting the big /data partition, essentially what was left of the 30 GB drive after defining /boot, /user, swap, and /. It is about 25GB. Wonder if that is too big. Left the second drive, 14MB as a single /store partition. All but swap I specified Linux native, and Disk Druid seemed to know what to do with the swap partition. There is something that flies by too fast to read early in the install boot that may be some kind of error, but I have no idea how to catch it. See that there should be a /tmp/install.log when the install completes. Will car pool to Baton Rouge this morning with my wife, who needs to attend a staff meeting, and pick up a spare floppy cable or two and maybe a used floppy drive or two. Will even check price on a brand new one...... Choppy At 11:48 PM 7/18/01 -0500, you wrote: <em>>You will need to find the utilities that come with each card. These are <em>>usually dos utilities that can be downloaded from the manufacturer's <p>================================================ BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change your subscription information. ================================================ <!-- body="end" --> <hr noshade> <ul> <li><strong>Next message:</strong> Jerald Sheets: "Re: [brluglist] Continuing Saga" <li><strong>Previous message:</strong> Byron Como: "Re: [brluglist] Continuing Saga" <li><strong>In reply to:</strong> Byron Como: "Re: [brluglist] Continuing Saga" <li><strong>Next in thread:</strong> Jerald Sheets: "Re: [brluglist] Continuing Saga" <li><strong>Reply:</strong> Jerald Sheets: "Re: [brluglist] Continuing Saga" <li><strong>Messages sorted by:</strong> [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] [ attachment ] </ul> <hr noshade>
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