Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 11:53:51 +0200
From: "Robbert J. van Herksen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RE: One for the linux types...
Would be great to know which win proggie masched up your partition
tables......
(FDISK??)
Cheers
Robbert
> -----Original Message-----
> From: neil barnes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 17:16
> To: Libretto
> Subject: One for the linux types...
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> Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 15:11:41
> From: "neil barnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: One for the linux types...
>
> Two things...
>
> Having just had a windows proggie roast my partition tables (to
> the extent
> that I've had to write code to write to the disk to make it
> fdiskable again
> - both windows and linux fdisks barfed on it!) I've just had to reinstall
> from scratch - still in progress.
>
> (1) I managed to get mandrake 8 installed by loading it with the
> disk on a
> desktop machine, and then letting HardDrake do it's stuff and
> unload most of
> the drivers, and playing with the X drivers to make it use the
> chips driver.
> It works! But the news is, on a CT50, even overclocked, don't
> bother. KDE2
> and Konqueror are just too slow to be of practical use. Ah well,
> back to the
> drawing board...
>
> (2) So I put M7.1 back on, from the hard disk using a floppy to
> boot it so
> that I can get the text mode install, which is the only one that
> will run in
> the available memory.
> The snag now is that even though the psion gold card
> modem/network combo was
> in the slot, and was probed, the network install didn't find it. I know I
> had it working previously but I have no idea how I did it. Any offers?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Neil
>
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