Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 07:21:04
From: "neil barnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RE: One for the linux types...
As far as i can tell, it was a Peanut Linux windows install...
btw I sorted the network problem - the card is recognised, but I had to
install netcgf to make it wake up on DHCP.
Neil
>From: "Robbert J. van Herksen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: Libretto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: Libretto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: RE: One for the linux types...
>Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 03:00:44 -0700
>
>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...
> >
> >
> > 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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