Linux-Hardware Digest #759, Volume #9 Fri, 19 Mar 99 16:13:48 EST
Contents:
Epson 700 Printer....under linux? (Michael D. Knight)
Re: X munges the graphics card? (Re: Windows 2000 Rah! Rah! Session (Steve
Russell)
usb devices on Linux2.0.xx or MKlinux? (Ulrich Hahn)
can't boot up a udb (Eric Melville)
SoundBlaster Live! ("Dave Moczulski")
Re: X munges the graphics card? (Re: Windows 2000 Rah! Rah! Session falls flat)
(Zenin)
TG96xx. Could not set resolution using Xconfigurator ("Kenichi Kato")
Re: Linux vs FreeBSD vs NetBSD vs OpenBSD (Lee Blevins)
Re: Migrating RH Linux 5.2 to new hard drive (Brett W. McCoy)
Re: Is Windows for idiots? (Bloody Viking)
Re: X munges the graphics card? (Re: Windows 2000 Rah! Rah! Session falls flat)
(Zenin)
Re: US Robotics Fax Modem (Yannick Carlinet)
Re: Another MO question... (Jim Howes)
wanted scrap ("matt")
Re: Migrating RH Linux 5.2 to new hard drive ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
General protection error .... HELP!!!!A (Prasanna Kumar Mishra)
Re: Speed..Speed..Speed (NoBody Here)
Linux RH 5.2 boot : monitor off and freeze ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael D. Knight)
Subject: Epson 700 Printer....under linux?
Date: 19 Mar 1999 20:27:37 GMT
I currently have an Epson 700 printer and would like to know
if there is a driver or utility that will let me use it.
It has a parallel port interface, so that should not be a problem....I
just need a driver to access some/most/all of the features of the
printer.
I've been away from linux for a couple of years, and don't know what
tools might be out there to work with this.
Any comments would be welcome.
Note...anti-spam in effect.....look at email address carefully.
-Michael
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From: Steve Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: X munges the graphics card? (Re: Windows 2000 Rah! Rah! Session
Date: 19 Mar 1999 20:27:34 GMT
jedi wrote:
> >Its not a matter of shoulds, but of markets. If you are trying to sell
> >something to the general public you will have better luck ( ceteris
> >paribus ) if it is easier to use. Then again, Linux comes from a market
>
> No, you will have better luck if you lie to people about
> how easy to use your product and force feed to everyone
> through exclusive agency contracts.
Hmmm, that is what I meant when I said everything else being equal up
above. Given that an ordinary non-tech person would prefer a gui, which
is where a lot of money is.
> However, you still need to know how to tell it to do
> what you need done. The GUI only slightly improves on
> that problem by limiting what you can tell the machine
> to do.
I worked my way through school as a lab assistant. For my first year
there the lab was a mixture of Win 3.1, unix, vax, & dos. I started the
job knowing very little. I hated Win 3.1 and its applications, but I
could do things to start helping people who asked things I didn't know.
With the command line software there was only a prompt to stare at most
of the time until I could ask one of the more experienced consultants
where to start.
You are right, GUIs don't make things a breeze and for the long term
future people will need to learn how to use computers. However, that
doesn't mean developers should give up on making things progressively
easier.....even for technical people. The less time you spend learning
one task might be converted into doing, or learning something else.
> Labor saving device != no learning required to use.
I agree, but as long as you are working at making labor saving
equipement you goal is to keep evolving towards equipment that makes a
chore less and less work. That includes finding ways to reduce the
time/effort in getting up to speed on the labor saving device.
Steve Russell
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From: Ulrich Hahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: usb devices on Linux2.0.xx or MKlinux?
Date: 19 Mar 1999 20:27:35 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
is there any experience out there using an usb port on a Notebook or
PPC-MKLinux?
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From: Eric Melville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.alpha
Subject: can't boot up a udb
Date: 19 Mar 1999 20:27:15 GMT
i've got a udb from cpu micro mart, and i am trying to install debian. i
can get to the milo prompt just fine. but when i say:
MILO> boot fd0:linux root=/dev/fd0 load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=1
it reads the "rescue" floppy, and gives one odd error, but keeps going
until it asks for the root floppy. i put that in, then i get that odd
error over and over and over. it says something like "reason: error in
ECC, retryable" or something like that. it goes by too fast to get a
good look at, and it never ends (i let it go for like 10 minutes). i
tried the most recent boot disk, and the previous one, all to no avail.
any ideas?
-E
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From: "Dave Moczulski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SoundBlaster Live!
Date: 19 Mar 1999 20:27:45 GMT
does anyone know how to use sndconfig to get the SoundBlaster Live! to work.
I'm currently running Mandrake Linux 5.3 it says that a PCI audio card is
found, but unknown. and i try everything but can't get it to work right.
thanks. a reply by email is aprreciated.
Dave
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From: Zenin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: X munges the graphics card? (Re: Windows 2000 Rah! Rah! Session falls
flat)
Date: 19 Mar 1999 20:27:49 GMT
In comp.lang.java.advocacy Steve Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Zenin wrote:
:> Sorry, complex systems require training. Even simple systems
:> require training.
:
: True, true, but the whole point of computerization is to make labor saving
: devices.
Do not make the mistake that "easy to learn" means that it is
"efficient to use".
I prefer CLI for many tasks *BECAUSE* it saves me quite a bit of
labor. Even very common, simple things like:
$ for file in `find . -name '*.html'`; do $EDITOR $file; done
Is that an "easy to learn" interface? No, not at all. However,
once it's learned it saves *TONS* of labor. And no, the above can
not *in any way* be done in an "easy to learn" interface simply
because next week I'll want to do:
$ for dir in `find . -type d`; do
> mkdir $dir/icons
> for image in `find $dir -name '*.jpg'`; do
> convert -geometry 64x64 $image $dir/icons/`basename $image`
> done
> done
You can make all the easy to learn GUI tools you like, but they will
*never* be more efficient or labor saving to use for many (most?)
tasks then similar CLI tools, simple because it is *impossible* for
you or anyone else to keep up with the needs of the user from one
minute to the next.
And yes, I and thousands of other "archaic" CLI users do type stuff
like the above off the top of our heads on command lines all day
long. Most of us are not "programmers" or "expert computer users"
by any stretch either.
--
-Zenin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) From The Blue Camel we learn:
BSD: A psychoactive drug, popular in the 80s, probably developed at UC
Berkeley or thereabouts. Similar in many ways to the prescription-only
medication called "System V", but infinitely more useful. (Or, at least,
more fun.) The full chemical name is "Berkeley Standard Distribution".
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From: "Kenichi Kato" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: TG96xx. Could not set resolution using Xconfigurator
Date: 19 Mar 1999 20:27:50 GMT
Hi,
I am trying to install Red Hat 5.1 on my DIY Pentium Cyrix 266.
I have a Trident 9685-chip SVGA PCI card. I tried using
Xconfigurator to set my resolution to 640 x 480 or 800 x 600
or 1024 x 768. When I STARTX, it always start at 320 x 200.
Why is that ?? Could someone help me on this ?
Thanks in advance.
Ken Kato
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lee Blevins)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Linux vs FreeBSD vs NetBSD vs OpenBSD
Date: 19 Mar 1999 20:27:42 GMT
Here's my two cents.
OVer the past two years, I've tried Linux and Freebsd.
The first time Linux I noticed that I had to make floppies to install
linux. Freebsd booted from the cd.
I went throught the creating startup floppies and got Linux installed
and it wouldn't recognize my 3c905 card. Freebsd did.
I didn't try Linux again untill recently because I've motivated by the
number of people using it. (ten thousand french flies can't be wrong.)
So I installed it on a spare pc I had. First thing I try it to rebuild
the kernel. What I see is extremely poor and inaccurate documentation.
Sure I can work through this with enough posts to newsgroups and maybe
going on irc and being insulted by the teenagers in #linux but Freebsd
works correctly on everything I try.
For my money, (time is money) I'm scrapping Linux once again and going
back to Freebsd.
For anybody that thinks I'm crazy, read my post on "A kernel build
problem" and tell me where I made an error. Perhaps my error was reading
the f*ing manual and following the directions in the how-to's.
The directions for building a kernel in freebsd take about two
paragraphs and work flawlessly. I can execute the procedure in a few
minutes. I get the feeling with linux you have to join some linux cult
and get the inside information that is not covered in the docs.
I'm finding it hard to believe that linux has gotten so popular with
such poor documentation.
Robert Ribnitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Mar 1999 18:43:38 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gilles Kirouac)
> wrote:
>
> >
> > I have read that Linux is SystemV derived while there are the BSDs,
> >FreeBSD, NetBSD,
> > OpenBSD.
> >
> > If my objective is mainly to build a data server, which one should
> >I select?
> > Does it matter?
> >
> > Can you recommend a reading on this?
>
> IMO, it doesnt matter that much, samba is available for all of them,
> and thats what you'll prolly be using (supposing the workstations are
> WinDoze).
>
> OpenBSD vs. FreeBSD: OpenBSD places their strength on Security and
> Stability, while FreeBSD/NetBSD is more of a 'hack' (which doesnt
> necessarily mean it is worse than OpenBSD.
>
> Also with LINUX you get -according to distribution -some configuration
> editors which make setup/adding/removing programs a bit easier.
>
> Robert
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brett W. McCoy)
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.questions,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Migrating RH Linux 5.2 to new hard drive
Date: 19 Mar 1999 20:18:17 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 15 Mar 1999 15:04:28 -0500, Greg Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hey fellow Linux users! I'm going to be moving my current RedHat 5.2 Linux
>server to a new hard drive. Everything in the system is going to be the
>same, just a new /sda drive. I'm just curious if anyone has a procedure to
>do this of if it is documented anywhere. I thought I would do a cp -a * (or
>a few with correct tmp mount points), then boot from a floppy with the new
>HD as root and run LILO, but I'm fuzzy on how to set up the /proc and /dev
>filesystem.... and if there are going to be any issues with the swap
>space... Thanks everyone! Any help would be very appreciated!
The /proc filesystem is a virtual filesystem and is created dynamically by
the loaded kernel. /dev is a different story. You may be better off
backing up your important stuff (i.e., /home & /usr directories),
reinstalling directly onto the new hard drive, and then restoring your
backed up stuff.
But is there any reason you can't keep your boot partition on the current
drive and just create new (and bigger) partitions on the new one?
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From: Bloody Viking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Is Windows for idiots?
Date: 19 Mar 1999 20:27:40 GMT
In comp.os.linux.advocacy Richard Steiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: BTW, I'm a mainframer who plays with a lot of code which was originally
: written in the 60's. Calling something a fallback to the 70's is not
: always an insult. ;-)
I bet you love Linux on your PC as a result. :) You came from the days
when men were men and the code was tight. Too bad y'all coded in the Y2K
bug and didn't fix it when the companies upgraded.
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From: Zenin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: X munges the graphics card? (Re: Windows 2000 Rah! Rah! Session falls
flat)
Date: 19 Mar 1999 20:27:54 GMT
In comp.lang.java.advocacy M. le Rutte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Zenin wrote:
>snip<
:> That's a MS GUI rule, not a general design rule.
: No, that *IS* a general design rule. Read any HCI book (of which most are
: *NOT* targeted at MS, nor any other system).
Ok, I'll concede this (it's not my point anyway).
Of course, the above existence doesn't make the rule any more valid,
only consistent. Many things are consistently wrong after all. :-)
>snip<
: Hey! I did not say that MS windows is easy to use, au contraire! I just
: don't buy that Linux is ready for Joe Average at home. I don't think that
: of MS-Windows either.
If Windows isn't, then nothing is. The system you're asking for
simply doesn't exist, and won't for quite some time.
Joe Average shouldn't buy a computer at all until the software
engineers of the world can figure out how to dumb it down enough
that it won't confuse him.
: How many times did I explain to my parents that the Blue-Screen-of-Death
: was *not* their fault and that they had to get used to that.
I understand this fully (and have delt with it with my own parents),
but it has nothing to do with if a system is "desk top ready" or
not.
All the world is not our parents.
: For us, computer people, most things a computer does is logical, some way
: or the other. For most people it is not. As computers have "integrated so
: higly in the society that everybody, even people with little or no
: education, has to use them they should be very-easy-to-use.
Cars are also "integrated so higly in the society" that "even people
with little or no education" should be able to use them?
No, I don't think so. Thank god the government doens't think so
either.
The only reason you don't need a license to use a computer is that
(normally...) you can't kill anyone with one (unlike a car).
: This very-easy-to-use might actually mean to shield the user from certain
: low-level things. The more knowledgable computer user feels restricted by
: this and will look for an OS that gives more freedom in that respect.
Shields are fine, even I like them for many tasks (Balsa ROCKS for
an email client for instance), locked doors are not (I also run
procmail and a highly tweaked sendmail config).
: So you will have different computer systems targeted at different people,
: for different purposes.
:
: Again, I *don't* like MS-Windows, I *don't* like MS in general. I *do*
: like the open-source of Linux and I *do* think Linux is more stable than
: MS-Windows, but I *don't* think Linux is ready to replace Windows.
Agreed...finally :-)
But do check out GNOME et al. Linux et al is getting *very* close
*very* fast.
>snip<
: P.S. I object to the elitist idea that if you are not smart enough to
: understand a computer that you 'have no right' to use one. Not that you
: said that.
Well, I'm close to that. :-)
I do not feel that those that know not of computers have the right
to make others work 10x harder simply so they can stay 10x less
competent. If they don't want to learn anything, I'm not about to
waste my time writing code for them. I've got better things to do
with my time, and so do they (even if they don't seem to know it).
--
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BSD: A psychoactive drug, popular in the 80s, probably developed at UC
Berkeley or thereabouts. Similar in many ways to the prescription-only
medication called "System V", but infinitely more useful. (Or, at least,
more fun.) The full chemical name is "Berkeley Standard Distribution".
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From: Yannick Carlinet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: US Robotics Fax Modem
Date: 19 Mar 1999 20:27:57 GMT
Jody Walker wrote:
>
> Hey I just went out and bought a new 56k us robotics fax modem. I know the
> winmodem wont work with Linux but will the fax work. Also how do I
> configure it settings like changing from tone to pulse dialing. I'm using
> Redhat 5.2.
>
Type (as root) 'netcfg' and fill in the blank.
If it doesn't work, read your modem manual, the modem-howto, the
ppp-howto, the ppp-faq,
the ppp man page, and ask your privider.
For the fax, I don't think there is a software which does that, but if
there is, I would
be interested too.
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From: Jim Howes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Another MO question...
Date: 19 Mar 1999 20:27:55 GMT
Vincent Lai wrote:
> I am using Fujitsu slim FN640 turbo MO and RH5.2 Kernal 2.0.36.
> Now I can mount my MO ... but I face another problem ...
> Can I use 640 MB MO block size 2048 to boot up my Linux??
> If Yes, how can I do that...?
> Thx.
If it's a variant on the M2513A or M2513E drive (I.e. a SCSI 640Mb
Optical device) then there is a patch available for 2.0.34 (which
appears to work OK on 2.0.35 too) that allows you to use 2048b/s
opticals. I have not tried it on 2.0.36; I suspect that if you
got the 2.0.34 sources, and applied the patch, then patched up
to 2.0.36 the results would probably be ok.
The only problem I've had with it is that fdisk gets confused,
and I have to create a partition that only appears to use 1/4
of the disk, but that's hidden in a script, so my customer doesn't
know..
I have the patch here, and I can mail it if you want, because
I've forgotten where it came from...
Apply it with
cd /usr/src
patch -p0 <fujitsu-2513a-2.0.34.diff
If you're going to search for it, 'fujitsu-2513a-2.0.34.diff'
probably isn't a bad thing to look for.
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From: "matt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.hardware,alt.comp.hardware.aptiva,alt.comp.hardware.superdisk,cn.bbs.comp.hardware,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.networking,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,comp.sys.ib
Subject: wanted scrap
Date: 19 Mar 1999 20:27:07 GMT
faulty hard disk drives,tape backup drives, cellphones
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.questions,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Migrating RH Linux 5.2 to new hard drive
Date: 19 Mar 1999 20:22:05 GMT
In comp.os.linux.hardware Greg Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hey fellow Linux users! I'm going to be moving my current RedHat 5.2 Linux
> server to a new hard drive. Everything in the system is going to be the
Simple. Setup the new drive with fdisk, etc and mount it under /mnt.
Mount all the partitions there, just like it'd be if you booted
up.. you know, /mnt /mnt/usr or whatever you like. Then do
cd /
find . | grep -v /mnt | grep -v /proc | cpio -dpmu /mnt
You should be able to edit your lilo.conf to point to the new drive,
then run lilo, then boot the new drive. This has worked for me, but I
may have left something out, so check the man pages and THINK before
you act.
robert
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From: Prasanna Kumar Mishra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: General protection error .... HELP!!!!A
Date: 19 Mar 1999 20:27:11 GMT
Reply-To: Prasanna Kumar Mishra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Hello!
I am experiencing a very frustrating problem with linux. When I give any
shell command I get a error message like the one given below. This type of
message comes not for any single command but comes randomly. If I give the
same command next time sometimes it comes and sometimes it does not.
Here goes the meassage when i gave "ls -l|less" command. I am also sending
one more as attachment.
[root@localhost pkm]# ls -l|less
general protection: 0000
CPU: 0
EIP: 0010:[<0010ad26>]
EFLAGS: 00010246
eax: 01ff6c0c ebx: ffff0004 ecx: 080559a3 edx: ffff0ff0
esi: 00000001 edi: 080490b0 ebp: bffff590 esp: 00e55fb8
ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 002b gs: 002b ss: 0018
Process less (pid: 586, process nr: 19, stackpage=00e55000)
Stack: 00e55fc0 080539a6 00000000 080559a3 0000001c 00000001 080490b0 bffff590
000000a0 4000002b 0000002b 00111c70 0000002b ffffffff 00100023 00010296
bffff588 0009002b
Call Trace: [<00111c70>]
Code: ff d3 83 c4 08 e9 bc fe ff ff 6a 00 68 58 b6 10 00 eb af 8d
Broken pipe
similiar error also came while tried other commands.
I am in a very confused state. I am having 413MB partition for linux. 34MB
is left for swapping. This leaves me with 376MB disk space. I have loaded
upto 335MB of packages. CPU is Cyrix Instaed 6x80 and use Intel
motherboard (unable to recall the model).
Thanks in advance for sending me the solution.
Prasanna.
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From: NoBody Here <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Speed..Speed..Speed
Date: 19 Mar 1999 20:27:17 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jason McKnight wrote:
>
> Jim Moser wrote:
>
> > Am currently running a K6-2 300Mhz processor with 128Mb of 100 Mhz
> > memory and considering
> > upgrading to a faster board and processor. I am pursuing a project which
> > will require scads of floating point
>
> <snip>
> If you are looking for RAW FP power look at an ALPHA processor. Load it up
> with memory and fast disks.
How does memory and disk speed relate to FloatingPoint
performance? This thread has my attention because a friend
at Qualcomm said he got better performance out of a PPro
then a Sparc 10 when doing simulations on voice codecs.
That surprised me and I'd like to know how the Alpha does FP.
Something more logical of a response is needed to be CONSIDERED
authoritary.
Doug
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,alt.os.linux,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Linux RH 5.2 boot : monitor off and freeze
Date: 19 Mar 1999 20:22:28 GMT
Excuse me for reposting I am desparate,
I have two Dell poweredge XE 590 who are not able to boot from the RH 5.2
boot diskettes. I have made several RH 5.2 boot floppies from both the web
and cd's but no luck. I used several floppies, made on several platforms and
several diskdrives.
Here's what happens :
I can see the Welcome to Redhat Linux bootmessage, I can switch between
screen(F1,F2,F3,F5,F6). After I hit enter, I see :
Loading initrd.img...
Then the sreen starts scrolling and after a few seconds the monitor switches
off.
My system :
Dell PowerEdge XE 590 (EISA/PCI)
Intel Pentium 90
64M memory
On-board NCR 53C810 SCSI hostadapter (PCI)
Adaptec AHA-1740 Eisa SCSI hostadapter (EISA)
ATI68800AX videocard
The bootdiskettes work perfectly well on a Dell optiplex, so I assume there's
nothing wrong with the diskettes. Also RH 4.2 installed like a charm, even on
the same diskettes!
I have seen only a few postings on dejanews, but there was no reply, so is
there anybody out there who can help me out?
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