Linux-Hardware Digest #512, Volume #13 Fri, 1 Sep 00 12:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Bt829 chipset support? (Stephen Crocker)
Re: Kernel Option for PIII Processor? ("Tkrin")
Re: VIA chipset (Bart Friederichs)
Re: VIA chipset (sideband)
Re: VIA chipset (Bart Friederichs)
Re: ATI help!!! (Antoine Martin)
Re: VIA chipset (Bart Friederichs)
Printers with Linux (Person 7)
Re: multiple NIC's with IPCHAIN and eth1 transmit errors.. ("Larry Snyder")
Re: tape drives (David C.)
ADMtek Centaur-p chipset NIC (Russ Radke)
Re: Linksys LNE100TX weird behavior??? (Peter Teuben)
Re: assistance with tape drive plz (David C.)
How to install printer ("Kevin")
Re: ADMtek Centaur-p chipset NIC (Donald Becker)
ATA66 with Red Hat 6.2 ? (hihihi)
HELP: XMMS Kills Enlightenment (McManus Leo Root DSP Consultant)
WORM (CCW) Device Driver (trafficpatrol)
can't find CD-ROM (Mark Cote)
Help - buying a new system (Craig Carmen)
Re: which driver for 21143 ethernet card? (Mikael Pettersson)
Re: VIA chipset (Bart Friederichs)
Re: 2 "new" cdroms under Win98 ("David S. DeWitt")
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From: Stephen Crocker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Bt829 chipset support?
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2000 09:51:49 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have recently installed Mandrake 7.1 on a 4800 series Compaq Presario.
This has a built-in video capture system based on the Bt829 chispet. So far,
I have been unable to find and Linux drivers for this device. bttv claims
bot to support the 829 and the only other drivers I have been able to find
require an ATI card, whereas this setup seems to be a bizarre arrangement
on the motherboard.
If anyone has any ideas about how I can take advantage of this feature,
please advise me!
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From: "Tkrin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Kernel Option for PIII Processor?
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2000 08:49:17 -0500
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> "Chan Chung Hang Christopher"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> Maybe Pentium II/III and SMP support might be better? Pentium II/III
>> are newer versions of the Pentium Pro with MMX btw.
>
> P3's also have some other feature, the name of which I forget.
>
> In terms of important things, however, the P2 and P3 are both identical
> to the Pentium Pro - which is why Intel lumps all three into the same
> category.
>
Thanks :) That's what I thought, but was not absolutely sure.
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From: Bart Friederichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: VIA chipset
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2000 13:33:59 GMT
sideband wrote:
> After you made bzImage, did you copy the new kernel to /boot, update
> /etc/lilo.conf, and rerun /sbin/lilo to make the changes take effect?
> New kernels don't do any good unless the system can boot from them.
Yes, I did a 'make bzlilo' and after checking with 'uname -a' it says it
is the kernel compiled on my system, 10 mins before, so guess that went
OK
Bart
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From: sideband <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: VIA chipset
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2000 09:50:32 -0400
Bart:
I wasn't trying to be insulting. I was trying to rule out a common
mistake, which I, and others, have made in the past.
Guess that's not the problem.
-SSB
On or about Fri, 01 Sep 2000 13:33:59 GMT, Bart Friederichs
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, using the forum comp.os.linux.hardware did say:
:sideband wrote:
:
:> After you made bzImage, did you copy the new kernel to /boot, update
:> /etc/lilo.conf, and rerun /sbin/lilo to make the changes take effect?
:> New kernels don't do any good unless the system can boot from them.
:
:Yes, I did a 'make bzlilo' and after checking with 'uname -a' it says it
:is the kernel compiled on my system, 10 mins before, so guess that went
:OK
:
:Bart
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From: Bart Friederichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: VIA chipset
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2000 13:52:02 GMT
sideband wrote:
> Bart:
>
> I wasn't trying to be insulting. I was trying to rule out a common
> mistake, which I, and others, have made in the past.
Ghehe, I wasn't insulted ;-)). I know these problems and you're right, I'va
made such mistakes too.
Bart
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From: Antoine Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ATI help!!!
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2000 15:02:12 +0100
James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> > Chakib Belmekki wrote:
> >
> >> Can someone tell me how configure Mandrake 7.1 with an ATI RAGE FURY
> >> 128 PRO
> >> VIVO, i have some problemes.(If someone knows a site which can help
> >> me..)
> >> Thanks!
> >
> You need to remember that you really aren't going to configure Mandrake
> 7.1.
>
> No matter what distr. you have, you need to configure XFree86.
>
> To to that: run (as root) either XF86Setup or xf86config.
>
> To do this, you need to know what type of video card you have and the
> basic specs for your monitor.
>
> JRT
AFAIK this card is not supported yet. (Rage Fury is, but the "pro" isn't
yet)
Try using frame buffer or vesa or svga modes...
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From: Bart Friederichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: VIA chipset
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2000 13:58:06 GMT
Zajdel wrote:
> Hi,
> Do you have VIA AC97 in sound config? If yes that's OK. I needed a kernel
> patch.
How will I know that? Right now, I am loading the modules manually. All goes
well, until I try to load sb.o (which seems necessary for via82cxxx.o). It
keeps bugging about a busy device. I enabled SB in my BIOS, with the
standard IRQ and DMA/IO settings.
TIA
Bart
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Person 7)
Subject: Printers with Linux
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2000 12:12:55 GMT
Hello.
I have a printer (EPSON STYLUS 670 on LPT1) and the drivers are only
for Windows. Will I be able to use the printer with Linux?
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From: "Larry Snyder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: multiple NIC's with IPCHAIN and eth1 transmit errors..
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 10:38:45 -0400
ip_Forward is set to 1
"sideband" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Do you have Bridging enabled in the Kernel?
>
> -SSB
>
> On or about Fri, 1 Sep 2000 07:38:51 -0400, "Larry Snyder"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, using the forum comp.os.linux.hardware did say:
>
> :Scenario -
> :
> :I have a 400 Mhz machine running RedHat 6.2 with 256MB of RAM.
> :
> :2 PCI NICs (tried on separate and the same IRQ's without any difference)
> :
> :When loading the network on eth1 (ftping a 20 meg file) which requires a
> :connection
> :
> :from eth1 through the machine to eth0 and out I get the following
errors...
> :
> :Tried various cards (3C905, EtherExpress, NetLink).
> :
> :Any ideas?
> :
> :Aug 31 19:55:38 gw kernel: eth1: Transmit timed out: status 0050 0000 at
> :7214/7243 command 000c0000.
> :
> :Aug 31 19:56:28 gw kernel: eth1: Transmit timed out: status 0050 0000 at
> :7579/7610 command 000c0000.
> :
> :Aug 31 19:56:53 gw kernel: eth1: Transmit timed out: status 0050 0000 at
> :7686/7715 command 000c0000.
> :
> :Aug 31 19:58:03 gw kernel: eth1: Transmit timed out: status 0050 0000 at
> :9182/9210 command 000c0000.
> :
> :Aug 31 19:58:23 gw kernel: eth1: Transmit timed out: status 0090 0000 at
> :9335/9364 command 000c0000.
> :
> :
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David C.)
Subject: Re: tape drives
Date: 01 Sep 2000 10:32:31 -0400
Trent Piepho writes:
>
> A very usefull post with lots of information, but your prices on DDS
> media are rather high. Looks like dirt cheap drives doesn't have very
> good deals on media. For DDS you can get DDS2 tapes for less than $5,
> DDS3 for less than $12, and DDS4 for about $25. I see NS-20 tapes at
> buycomp for $31 and TR-4s for $24.
I'm not surprised. Companies that specialize in drives don't usually
sell enough media to get the quantity discounts that more general-
purpose stores get. And sometimes they deliberately inflate the prices
because they don't want to be in that business (they want to sell
drives, not media, but they know that many customers are going to want
to get some tapes bundled with the drive, so they can't just not sell
them either.)
I simply grabbed one web site so people wouldn't accuse me of making up
numbers to prove a point.
In actual practice, you need to calculate the break-even point based on
the prices you will actually pay. Which means shopping around to many
different vendors.
-- David
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From: Russ Radke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: ADMtek Centaur-p chipset NIC
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2000 08:16:52 -0600
Folks,
I have a F=ma PCI 10/100 NIC, with the following identification on the
ONLY chip on
the board:
ADMtek Centaur-p AN983
0011WDAFAP056831.01
This is screened right onto the package, so I can't lift a sticker and
get more info.
The model number of the card is GDC1216C-TX-50.
Does anyone have an idea what this chip is, and which driver I should be
using?
Thanks,
Russ
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From: Peter Teuben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Linksys LNE100TX weird behavior???
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2000 10:37:51 -0400
"Robert E. Blair" wrote:
>
> I have had a Linksys Etherfast PCI card in my system for a few years
> now. It always worked fine - the system is triboot (linux,NT,W95). I
> got a cable modem and out of paranoia upgraded the kernel to the latest
> version from Redhat (2.2.16-3). Everything is fine BUT the ethernet
> card basically went dead. The tulip driver loads fine, but there is no
> response to pings to a neighbor machine. The hardware still worked as
> verified by boot another OS.
>
> Here's the weird thing. In trying to solve the problem I discovered
> that if I ran ntop (the ethernet sniffer) the card suddenlly worked.
> Tipped off by that I tried loading the driver, initiating the network
> start and did a "/sbin/ifconfig eth0 -promisc" and sure enough the card
> works fine! It appears to be very reproducible. Before I put this in
> my network startup file, anyone have a similar experience? Anyone have
> a clue as to why this might be?
>
> Any hints would be appreciated.
Hmm, odd, i got this card a few weeks ago, and it didn't even
work with the default redhat6.2. Evetnually I got it to work.
Here's my current working setup:
/proc/pci:
Bus 0, device 9, function 0:
Ethernet controller: Unknown vendor Unknown device (rev 17).
Vendor id=1317. Device id=985.
Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. IRQ 9. Master
Capable. Laten
cy=32. Min Gnt=255.Max Lat=255.
I/O at 0xd000 [0xd001].
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe1000000 [0xe1000000].
/etc/sysconfig/hwconfig
-
class: NETWORK
bus: PCI
detached: 0
device: eth
driver: unknown
desc: "ADMtek|unknown device 1317:0985"
vendorId: 1317
deviceId: 0985
pciType: 1
-
This was my comment on fixing something in
/etc/conf.modules:
# this one sat on IRQ 9, removed 7-aug-00 for Linksys LNE100TX V4.1
alias eth0 tulip
(my eth0 and USB conflicted, and i had to hardware (BIOS) disable
to USB to get the ethernet card to detect).
I'm running this on standard redhat6.2 with the 2.2.14-5.0 kernel,
but I had to upgrade the tulip driver to 0.92h. You can find that
on Becker's website (http://www.scyld.com)
Could be you have an older firmware version, that works with older
versions of the tulip driver
Peter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David C.)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: assistance with tape drive plz
Date: 01 Sep 2000 10:40:25 -0400
"Bob R" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> I am a newbie, I have Mandrake 7.0 setup and want to know how to
> configure an IDE tape drive.
>
> I know it is something like /dev/ftape. it is a colorado setup on the
> floppy controller. when i ran it out of a console window, it said it
> could not find it in etc/
Is it an IDE drive or a floppy-controller drive? You have claimed both
interfaces for a single drive, which is impossible
If your drive is attached to the floppy controller (either one on your
motherboard, or a high-speed floppy controller intended for tape
drives), then you need /dev/ftape. It does not work with all kinds of
floppy-tape drives, however. See the Ftape-HOWTO for information on
getting this to work.
The FTape device does _NOT_ work with non-floppy interface (including
QIC-02, IDE/ATAPI and SCSI.
If your drive is IDE, your support should be built-in. ATAPI-tape
support has been in the kernel since version 1.3.46 (according to the
FTape-HOWTO).
-- David
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From: "Kevin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to install printer
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 10:25:32 -0400
Hi,
My system is redhat6.2, remote printer is Lexmark Optra S 1650(on the
network), how can I install the printer?
Thanks
Kevin
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Donald Becker)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: ADMtek Centaur-p chipset NIC
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2000 14:41:49 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Russ Radke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have a F=ma PCI 10/100 NIC, with the following identification on the
>ONLY chip on
>the board:
>
>ADMtek Centaur-p AN983
This is (drumroll please) an ADMtek Centaur/P chip.
It's supported by the updated Tulip driver.
http://www.scyld.com/network/tulip.html
ftp://www.scyld.com/pub/network/tulip.c
--
Donald Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Scyld Computing Corporation http://www.scyld.com
410 Severn Ave. Suite 210 Beowulf Clusters / Linux Installations
Annapolis MD 21403
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Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2000 16:40:54 +0200
From: hihihi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ATA66 with Red Hat 6.2 ?
The ASUS CUSL2 can use ATA66
Is there a good way to use a ATA66 drive with Linux Red Hat 6.2 ??
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From: McManus Leo Root DSP Consultant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: HELP: XMMS Kills Enlightenment
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2000 16:55:03 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
When I play my MP3s on my Enlightenment manager using XMMS, it works for
a short wile then the system lock up. I can still hear the MP3 playing,
but nothing responds. I switch to another monitor and kill my XMMS and
switch back to the Enlightenment and it is OK. I have disabled my
Enlightenment sound so it does not clash with the MP3, but it still
locks, up. Any ideas?
Thanks
Leo
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From: trafficpatrol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: WORM (CCW) Device Driver
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2000 15:03:45 GMT
We are running a Maxoptix T6-5200 optical disc drive and have to use
5,2 GB WORM(CCW) media.
Do we need a special software. What's the right procedure to
access it ?
Is it practicable to format a WORM with the FAT filesystem, because
we want to exchange it between several operating systems like
QNX, LINUX and Windows NT.
Where is a device driver or sourcecode available for these operating
systems ? Or is there a UDF driver ?
Where will we get more information about using WORM media ?
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: Mark Cote <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: can't find CD-ROM
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 10:33:19 -0400
Hi, I recently acquired a used 486 that I intend on using as a server
running GNU/Linux (specifically, the Debian distro). The installation
proceeded without problems until I attempted to first install the kernel,
at which point it told me that it couldn't find the CD-ROM. I took a look
inside, and I found a CD-ROM configuration that I hadn't encountered until
now.
The CD-ROM's data connection is attached to a ISA card. This ISA card has
two connections that would fit a standard IDE cable, one marked "IDE" and
the other marked "Panasonic" (the CD-ROM is attached to the latter). There
are a few jumpers that allow the selection of things such as "Panasonic"
vs. "Sony", an address (mine is set to 340), and some sort of priority.
There is also what appears to be a standard audio speaker jack on the rear
faceplate (the only connector there), and the CD-ROM is attached to the
corresponding connection inside via the CD-ROM's standard audio port.
My computer is an IBM PS/1 with a 486SX processor (not sure of the exact
clock speed). The CD-ROM is marked with a sticker reading "Manufactured
for IBM", which leads me to believe that it came with the computer when it
was originally purchased. However, I received no manuals with the
computer.
If anyone has seen this configuration and could help me configure my
CD-ROM properly, it would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Mark
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From: Craig Carmen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help - buying a new system
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2000 10:18:21 -0500
Hello,
I am looking to buy a preconfigured linux box to use as a small network
file server. I have looked at a number of vendors, and found a pretty
good deal from Acentia Computers. Before I buy, I wanted to get some
opinions on the quality of the company. If anyone has bought a computer
from them, please let me know what you think of the machine. Or if you
have another favorite vendor, I'd be interested in finding out about
that as well.
Thanks
Craig Carmen
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Re: which driver for 21143 ethernet card?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mikael Pettersson)
Date: 1 Sep 2000 17:29:51 +0100
In article <8oo0uk$hk3$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Georg Schwarz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>We have an Acer ALN-315 ethernet card with Intel 21143 chip (DEC
>licensed?). We're using the tulip.c:v0.91g-ppc 7/16/99
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] driver on Linux 2.2.16. The NIC's connected to
>a 100 Mbps ProCurve switch from HP.
>We've noticed (with ping -f) that it has a rather poor performance. This
>becomes especially evident when we replace it with an ALN-310 (DEC 21140).
>Is there anything in terms of drivers we could do about that?
The de4x5 driver should work fine with a non-clone 21143.
--
Mikael Pettersson ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Computing Science Department, Uppsala University
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From: Bart Friederichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: VIA chipset
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2000 15:37:30 GMT
Gary S White wrote:
> Have you tried ALSA? It's still early days but it seems to be supporting
> more and more soundcards everyday and it works fine with my VIA Chipset.
Well, I tried it on your recommendation and I must say I got further with it
then with the OSS drivers. It seems all drivers are loaded. In
/proc/asound/sndstat however it says:
Sound Driver: 3.8.1a-980706 (ALSA v0.5.9b emulation code)
Kernel: Linux thorax 2.2.16 #4 Thu Aug 31 16:34:23 CEST 2000 i686
Config options: 0
Installed drivers:
Type 10: ALSA emulation
Card config:
VIA 82c686A at 0xcc00, irq 10
Audio devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG
Synth devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG
Midi devices:
0: MPU-401 (UART)
Timers:
7: system timer
Mixers: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG
How can I enable them?
TIA
Bart
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From: "David S. DeWitt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: 2 "new" cdroms under Win98
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 10:09:18 -0500
I had this problem once when a lady at work asked me to fix her pc. I
promptly removed the drive from device manager. They would continue to show
back up. After awhile I notice extra light on this drive and found out it
was an old 4 disk changer.
No problem after all.
"Gabriel Gagnon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi,
>
> I just buy a new system.. And I install Linux on it
> (distribution Gentus (RedHat 6.2)).
>
> My system:
>
> CPU: AMD 800MHz
> Motherboard: ABIT KA7-100
> RAM: 128M
> HD: Matrox 20G, ATA-100
> Partitions (created with Partition Magic 4):
> 7G: Fat32 with Win98 Second Edition Primary
>
> Extended
> 2G: Fat32
> Logical
> 9G: Linux ext2 mount as "/" Logical
>
> 2G: Linux ext2 mount as "/home" Logical
> 257M: Linux Swap
> Logical
> Graphic Card: Matrox G400 Max
> CDRW: Plextor 12x/10x/32x
> DVD: PC-DVD Encore 12x with Dxr3 (Creative Labs)
>
> My problem:
>
> Under Win98, in Explorer Windows, I have two more visible CDROMs, that I
> should not see.
>
> Before the installation:
>
> Visible under Win98:
>
> C:\ -> Win98 7G
> D:\ -> Fat32 2G
> E:\ -> Fat32 will be "/" under Linux 9G
> F:\ -> Fat32 will be "/home" under Linux 2G
> G:\ -> Fat32 will be "swap" under Linux 257M
> H:\ -> CDRW Plextor 12x/10x/32x
> I:\ -> DVD
>
>
> After the installation:
>
> Visible under Win98:
>
> C:\ -> Win98 7G
> D:\ -> Fat32 2G
> E:\ -> New CDROM
> F:\ -> New CDROM
> H:\ -> CDRW Plextor 12x/10x/32x
> I:\ -> DVD
>
> This problem makes my system very unstable when I try to get access to
> my real CDROM (CDRW;DVD) and this is not interesting to see.
>
> On my old system, I had this problem and I solve it by putting my swap
> partition the last one of my disk. This seems to do not work on this
> system.
>
> So if you have a idea how to solve my problem without playing at erasing
> and installing Linux/Win98 multiple times (by tries and errors).
>
> I know that this question should have been already asked somewhere...
> but I did not find any traces of it.
>
> Thank you very much ! Have a nice day !
>
> Gabriel Gagnon
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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