On Sun, 3 Feb 2002, U. P. wrote: > Before couple of months i installed RH 7.1, downloaded motorola SM56 linux > drivers, and surfed the web. few months later, i bought RH 7.2 but when > i tried to installed those drivers again, they didnt work, the > installation ran smooth no errors, but it didn't work
What didn't work? What did you do and what was the result? Have you managed to load the modules from those drivers? > (i think its because of the new ext3 file system, bot no, i installed > it again with ext2 but it didnt work either, i also tried to > down-grade the kernel, and didnt work either...). Downgrading the kernel may be a bit drastic step, considering the fact that you are downgrading to 2.4.<very low> . However, it should satisfy those drivers, to the best of my humble understanding. What errors did you get? > after little thinking i decided to switch back to 7.1 andwait until the new > drivers will come out, i started the installation and the something like: > > " A partition type (0) is exist, this version of RH dont support zero > partitions, this probaly caused by another OS partitioning program, > try to use it to fixthe problem" > > and this occured after i even _DELETED_ the linux partition(s), the > same happend when i tried to install RH 6 and then upgrade to 7, the > only expection is in 7.2 which works correctly. > how is your hard disk partitioned? The output of 'fdisk -l ' could help -- Tzafrir Cohen /"\ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign Taub 229, 972-4-829-3942, X Against HTML Mail http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir / \ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
