Hey Richard,
thanks for the swift reply, I had the boot disks, I did make them, in fact I
made three sets in case there were bad copies, I got in and have the boot
problem conquored, it was a misconfiguration of the LILO in the MBR due to a
previous installation of the R.H. 5.2 2.0.38, removal and installation of
That Turbo Linux, and reinstallation of R.H. 5.2 2.0.38. Now in an attempt
to configure the sound card, I am once again up that creek, sans paddle.
Running on a Cyrix M II 333 MMX processor ATI 3D Rage II c AGP graphics
card, and Crystal CS 423X Sound chip MDU IRQ. I try auto probe and it fails
to configure the card. Trying the manual set up, it asks for the DIP switch
settings. I suppose this means that I must take the computer apart and see
what these settings are. Is that what I must do in order to configure the
card ? Do you think that I am also going to have to take my printer apart
when I come to that part of it ? My modem is a 3 COM U.S. Robotics 56K PNP
fax modem. Do you think that I will have to do some arcane things to it,
like change the jumpers to get it to work ?
Thankx for the guidance, I was able to get an acceptable GUI mess running at
one time from the directions on this list, still trying to print and get
online. CR
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>---------------------- Forwarded by Thomas C. Rogers/DSC on 12/19/99 07:03
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>Richard Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 12/19/99 05:40:03 AM
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>Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>To: Thomas C. Rogers/DSC
>cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>Subject: Re: seibweN....seibweN
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>On Sun, 19 Dec 1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about, Re:
>seibweN....seibweN:
>> Hey All,
>>
>> This is no joke, perhaps I am revealing my ignorance, but I bet I am not
the
>> only one who has this question.... so here goes:
>> If Harry Newbie can't get his shiny new Linux box to even boot up, how is
he
>> going to capture a script and transfer it to an E mail to forward to this
list
>?
>> No doubt it is done, but I for one am at a loss as to the method... let
the
>> games begin....
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>If the box wont start properly, then the cahnces are the mouse is not yet
>available, meaning you cant cut and paste, so your up the creak without a
>paddle.
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>However a few tips.
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>The box wont boot.!
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>If lilo is presant and shows the LILO prompt, you can always try;
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>linux 1
>Where linux is the image it could be called anything, the 1 is boot into
>level 1 (admin mode) if you like.
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>If that fails;
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>Then use the diskettes that you made during the install, you did make them
>didnt you, like the text said make a boot disk yes or no.
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>Different distro's have different methods, so i wont go into howto do it.
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>When and if your in, you can then look around the system logs, /var/log
>files are messages, syslog, debug, and others, once again different
>distro's have different files, most are in /var/log.
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>type dmesg that might reveal some information on drivers that cant be found
>and will show what drivers were found.
>
>
>If you have a spesific question then ask it, dont talk in riddels.
>Please include you type of install, distro, machine, and a description of
>the problem, what you did to get into that situation, etc etc.
>
>--
>Regards Richard
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>http://people.zeelandnet.nl/pa3gcu/
>Merry Xmas.
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