Linux-Setup Digest #681, Volume #19 Sat, 23 Sep 00 08:13:04 EDT
Contents:
[Fwd: Mount in Corel Linux 1.1] (Kieron Dunbar)
Ok..."Delaying eth0 initialization"?? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: How to adjust kde display (Michael Iwaki)
Re: eth0 Promiscious mode ("Greg Chapman")
SoundBlaster Live! problems (Erik Max Francis)
dual boot linux+win98 -> no access to cd-rom ? ("blackk")
Re: Linux having trouble with Athlon/Thunderdbird? ("jb")
Re: Upgrading 2.2.14->2.2.17 loses my /dev/hdd (James Richard Tyrer)
Re: Making the Framebuffer work (Faux_Pseudo)
Linux on ZIP Floppy? (Steve Withers)
Re: Ram Problem (Michael Mitchell)
Re: ISAPNP ad1816 sound card problem (Pieter van Beek)
Re: ISAPNP ad1816 sound card problem (Pieter van Beek)
Re: Linux on ZIP Floppy? (Barry OGrady)
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From: Kieron Dunbar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Fwd: Mount in Corel Linux 1.1]
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 20:52:28 +0100
I've been having difficulties in mounting a hard disk with my current set-up.
I've got Linux installed to a file on a hard disk, but when I try to mount
the other hard disk with "mount -t affs /dev/hdb /usr/dh0" I got the response
"mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock or too many mounted file
systems". Is there any way I can find out what the problem could be?
kwaheri, Kieron (reverse username to reply)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.security
Subject: Ok..."Delaying eth0 initialization"??
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 03:49:48 GMT
This morning my box was running fine, receiving email and letting me ftp
out. Then I pulled down a bunch of rpms, did a bunch of security stuff
(having just gotten cracked), and rebooted. Now, my eth0 isn't coming
up. It keeps saying "Delaying eth0 initialization", but what does that
mean? Delaying it til when, and why? Where do I look to see what I
changed? This happens if I use linuxconf to restart the network
service, or if I use netcfg to attempt to activate the eth0 interface
(and also during boot time).
duane
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Before you buy.
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From: Michael Iwaki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to adjust kde display
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 04:12:18 GMT
How did you use xvidtune? Did you have to run xf86config to get into
xvidtune? I have redhat 6.2. Excuse me if the questions seem rather basic.
I'm new to this.
Michael Iwaki
flipper wrote:
> Michael Iwaki a �crit :
>
> > My kde display is a little off-center. Needs adjustment. I have a
> > Viewsonics PT770 and Matrox Millenium 4Mb card with 2064W chipset. On
> > my monitor, I can push a panel button and get an on-screen display of
> > various adjustments to the monitor. It also says the Horizontal freq.
> > 43.88Khz, vertical freq. 89Hz and says "Non-registered". I looked up
> > the frequency settings for the 1024 x 768 resolution in the monitor
> > manual: H=68.68 Khz, V=85Hz.
> >
> > This is what I think I want to set up in Linux (I use redhat 6.2). How
> > do I set it? Someone told me to use xvidtune or xconfigurator. What's
>
> Hi,
>
> You can use xvidtune if your problem is only a off-center display. Use it
> with caution and don't modify critical values (h-sync et v-sync) with
> large increments.
>
> I've uses xvidtune for my Mandrake 7.1 and now my display is right
> on the center of my monitor.
>
> Good luck :)
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From: "Greg Chapman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: eth0 Promiscious mode
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 04:47:15 GMT
"Alex Rier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> How can I configure eth0 to be able to run my sniffer
> as a regular user? (Without using suid root)
I'm not sure that you do...
It sounds like a serious security problem to me.
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From: Erik Max Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SoundBlaster Live! problems
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 22:09:23 -0700
Reply-To: Erik Max Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I have access to a Dell machine (running Slackware 7.0 with kernel
version 2.2.13) that I'm trying to set up sound on. It has a Sound
Blaster Live! card. I tried both the Creative open source driver and
the ALSA drivers, and both resulted in the same thing: The card plays
fine in a virtual console, but when XFree86 (version 3.3.5) is running,
sound cuts out when things happen in X (such as windows moving or
windows repainting). This sounds like an IRQ conflict to me, but I saw
no way to configure IRQ settings through Dell's BIOS or on the video
card.
The sound card plays just fine outside of X or when X is up but is idle.
Any suggestions?
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From: "blackk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: dual boot linux+win98 -> no access to cd-rom ?
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 08:05:34 +0200
Hye,
Big issue for my tiny head ! and no answer until now from neither from nec
nor my reseller...
I just bought a nec versa ax notebook.
I tried to make a dual boot with Linux and W98 on my laptop. I have now a
serious problem: no way to access to the cd-rom anymore.
I may have crashed the master boot.
I don't have the masterCD to recover my laptop to the original state.
I downloaded on nec's site a program to create a recovery disket. At the end
of running it is asking me a system serial number but my s/n does not work
??
1/ Does anyone think the diagnostic is ok or is there another cause (despite
hardware pb) ?
2/ Is there any way to download the Mastercd somewhere ?
3/ What does mean the system serial number asked by the program run from the
recovery disk. How could I find it ? Is there any program running without
asking it ?
4/ Is there any other program, site, mailing list or newsgroup that could
help us ?
Thanks, really thanks to everybody,
Black Kevin
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From: "jb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux having trouble with Athlon/Thunderdbird?
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 02:04:17 -0400
Mike had it right...wow, I am a true newbie and here I am dispensing tech
support...weird.
Someone on the Gentus Linux forum (which is really Red Hat) told me about
the CPUID issue I was having with my Thunderbird...the correct value is 1,
so when you are asked to put in kernel options, type:
linux x86_serial_nr=1
and you'll be set. Just wanted to clarify that the value should be 1, and
not 0. Hope I'm not repeatingt the obvious.
~Jeremy
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From: James Richard Tyrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: Upgrading 2.2.14->2.2.17 loses my /dev/hdd
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 06:33:15 GMT
"Andrew P. Billyard" wrote:
> I just upgraded my kernel from 2.2.14-05 to 2.2.17 (actually, to 2.4 but
> had too many troubles, so I went to 2.2.17 - the problem below applies
> also to the 2.4 kernel), so that the kernel could recognize my
> machine's (AMD K6-2/500 on an AMD P5a-b board) IDE controller
> (Ali15x3). I also used the patch ide.2.2.17.all.20000904.patch to
> recognize the Ali15x3 chipset. My last harddrive, /dev/hdd, is no
> longer recognized. This is an old Western Digital 202 Mb drive which I
> use as a monthly backup storage device. Currently, my dmesg reads
>
> [snip]
> Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.30
> ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with
> idebus=xx
> ALI15X3: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 78
> ALI15X3: chipset revision 193
> ALI15X3: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> ide0: BM-DMA at 0xb000-0xb007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
> ide1: BM-DMA at 0xb008-0xb00f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
> hda: IBM-DJNA-351520, ATA DISK drive
> hdb: M1606TA, ATA DISK drive
> ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with
> idebus=xx
> hdc: ATAPI CD-ROM DRIVE 40X MAXIMUM, ATAPI CDROM drive
> > hdd: WDC AC2200F, ATA DISK drive
> ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
> ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
> hda: IBM-DJNA-351520, 14664MB w/430kB Cache, CHS=29795/16/63,
> UDMA(33)
> hdb: M1606TA, 1039MB w/256kB Cache, CHS=2111/16/63, DMA
> > hdd: WDC AC2200F, 202MB w/64kB Cache, CHS=989/12/35
> hdc: ATAPI 40X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, (U)DMA
> Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.11
> [snip]
> Partition check:
> hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4
> hdb: hdb1
> hdd:hdd: lost interrupt
> unknown partition table
> [snip]
> VFS: Disk change detected on device ide1(22,0)
> [snip]
>
> I used to be able to mount /dev/hdd1 with "mount /dev/hdd1 /backups"
> but now mount returns with "mount:
> /dev/hdd1 is not a valid block device". However, if I boot up with
> 2.2.14, I can still access this drive.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Cheers,
> Andrew
>
> PS: hdparm /dev/hdd produces:
>
> /dev/hdd:
> multcount = 0 (off)
> I/O support = 0 (default 16-bit)
> unmaskirq = 0 (off)
> using_dma = 0 (off)
> keepsettings = 0 (off)
> nowerr = 0 (off)
> readonly = 0 (off)
> readahead = 8 (on)
> geometry = 989/12/35, sectors = 415380, start = 0
>
> if this helps any.....
>
> --
> Please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In all probability, you omitted something when you configured the Kernel.
Is this a really, really old WD drive? That is, Original XT type
controller?
If so, that is a separate driver -- a separate option in whichever
configuration program you are using.
JRT
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Faux_Pseudo)
Subject: Re: Making the Framebuffer work
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 07:13:46 GMT
--(Once apon a time, in comp.os.linux.setup,)--
--(Todd Goyen said it like only they can.)--
$Help i have had no luck
$I am running Slackware 7.1 X 4.0.1
$i have an Asus v7700 Gefore 2 video card
$and i have frame buffer compilied into the kernel
$but i get nothing
$the system is dualboot with loadlin loading linux
$if i give it a vga=ask line i only get standard console options
$whenever i start x or another program that needs the frame buffer i get
$"can't open /dev/fb0"
$but it is there
$what could be wrong?
$Todd Goyen
$
$
Colours 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 1600x1200
--------+---------------------------------------------
256 | 769 771 773 775 796
32,768 | 784 787 790 793 797
65,536 | 785 788 791 794 798
16.8M | 786 789 792 795 799
change the vga=ask to vga=xxx where xxx is the correct number
from the above chart
rerun lilo and reboot
then you will be in business
when you use the vga=ask option you are not using the framebuffers
you are using the vga options in your bios
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From: Steve Withers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Linux on ZIP Floppy?
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 21:53:54 +1200
I have a P-166 with 64MB of RAM.....and a spare IDE ZIP floppy drive
(roughly 97MB capacity). I'd like to install a basic Linux sytem on the
ZIP floppy that would support my ethernet card and a text-based user
interface. I'd actually like to run the command line version of the SETI
@ Home client on this wee system.
An alternative would be to boot the system from a CD and use the ZIP
floppy as writeable storage - perhaps the swap file could go there.
Anyone done this?
--
Regards,
Steve Withers
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Michael Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Ram Problem
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 11:28:50 GMT
before your system boots into linux, type this in at the lilo prompt
lilo: linux mem=256M once it boots up, check your resources and see
if it didn't pick up all the memory this time
"John D. Cassidy" wrote:
> I have just installed linux, and it will only recognize 64 of my 256 mb's of
> ram. Anybody have any ideas of what to do. Remember, I am a new user, so
> please be as detailed as possble.
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From: Pieter van Beek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ISAPNP ad1816 sound card problem
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 11:59:08 +0200
Hi Clive,
I'm sorry, but it's not this simple. Of course, checking /proc/ioports was the first
thing I tried, but there's no
other device using that port. Meanwhile, I found out that my BIOS is set to "NON-PNP
OS", meaning that my bios
configures all ISA-PNP devices. My system is dual boot, so I checked from Win95 how my
sound card is configured. This
gave me the following:
Card type: ADS7181 (strange, the card itself says it is AD1816...)
IRQ: 5
DMA: 1 and 0
IO: 0x240 (16 bytes), 0x388 (4 bytes) and 0x500 (16 bytes)
MPU:
IRQ: 11
IO: 0x340 (2 bytes)
Joystick:
IO: 0x200 (8 bytes)
I changed my /etc/isapnp.conf to reflect this setting. Relevant lines are:
(READPORT 0x0273)
(ISOLATE PRESERVE)
(IDENTIFY *)
(VERBOSITY 2)
(CONFLICT (IO FATAL)(IRQ FATAL)(DMA FATAL)(MEM FATAL)) # or WARNING
(CONFIGURE ADS7181/-1 (LD 0
(INT 0 (IRQ 5 (MODE +E)))
(DMA 0 (CHANNEL 1))
(DMA 1 (CHANNEL 0))
(IO 0 (SIZE 16) (BASE 0x0240))
(IO 1 (SIZE 4) (BASE 0x0388))
(IO 2 (SIZE 16) (BASE 0x0500))
(NAME "ADS7181/-1[0]{Analog Devices AD1816A}")
(ACT Y)
))
(CONFIGURE ADS7181/-1 (LD 1
(INT 0 (IRQ 11 (MODE +E)))
(IO 0 (SIZE 2) (BASE 0x0330))
(NAME "ADS7181/-1[1]{Analog Devices AD1816A}")
(ACT Y)
))
(CONFIGURE ADS7181/-1 (LD 2
(IO 0 (SIZE 8) (BASE 0x0200))
(NAME "ADS7181/-1[2]{Analog Devices AD1816A}")
(ACT Y)
))
(WAITFORKEY)
As you can see, I left out the (CHECK) option in all IO-port configuration lines,
because otherwise isapnp would
fail. With this setup, I managed to get the joystick to work, and the soundcard works
with the
Soundblaster/Soundblaster-pro driver, although the driver complains that my card is
NOT fully sb-compatible, which,
indeed, it is not.
With this configuration, I get at least SOME sound, bit 16 bit doesn't seem to work.
Do you have any more suggestions?
Thanx a lot already,
Pieter van Beek
Clive DaSilva wrote:
> Hi Pieter
>
> ok, another device is using 0x220. try this ..cat /proc/ioports and
> you will see what device is using this address. edit /etc/isapnp.conf
> and use another address, an unused one. I had this problem when i went
> from slackware 3.6 to 7.1
>
> good luck
>
> Pieter van Beek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >I have an ad1816 pnp sound card, and RH6.0, kernel 2.2.5
> >
> >The problem is, it won't play a sound. The mixer works, though, I can test that
>with the microphone.
> >Below, there's some more information about what I found out so far. Does anyone
>knoe what could be going on here?
> >
> >Pieter van Beek.
> >
> >when running isapnp is run, it complains:
> >
> >Board 1 has Identity 2f ff ff ff ff 81 71 93 04: ADS7181 Serial No -1 [checksum 2f]
> >isapnp.conf:64 -- Fatal - resource conflict allocating 16 bytes of IO at 220 (see
>isapnp.conf)
> >isapnp.conf:64 -- Fatal - IO range check attempted while device activated
> >isapnp.conf:64 -- Fatal - Error occurred executing request '<IORESCHECK> ' ---
>further action aborted
> >
> >After removing the (CHECK) option in the corresponding line in isapnp.conf, it
>works:
> >
> >Board 1 has Identity 2f ff ff ff ff 81 71 93 04: ADS7181 Serial No -1 [checksum
> > 2f]
> >ADS7181/-1[0]{Analog Devices AD1816A}: Ports 0x220 0x388 0x530; IRQ5 DMA1 DMA3 -
> >-- Enabled OK
> >
> >Loading the module goes fine, too:
> >
> >Sep 14 20:48:59 node1527a kernel: ad1816: AD1816 sounddriver Copyright (C) 1998
> >by Thorsten Knabe
> >Sep 14 20:48:59 node1527a kernel: ad1816: $Header: /home/tek/tmp/CVSROOT/sound21
> >/ad1816.c,v 1.28 1999/01/16 19:01:36 tek Exp $
> >Sep 14 20:48:59 node1527a kernel: ad1816: io=0x530, irq=5, dma=1, dma2=3, isadma
> >bug=0
> >Sep 14 20:48:59 node1527a kernel: ad1816: detect(530)
> >Sep 14 20:48:59 node1527a kernel: ad1816: detect() - Detected OK
> >Sep 14 20:48:59 node1527a kernel: ad1816: AD1816 Version: 1
> >Sep 14 20:48:59 node1527a kernel: YM3812 and OPL-3 driver Copyright (C) by Hannu
> > Savolainen, Rob Hooft 1993-1996
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From: Pieter van Beek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ISAPNP ad1816 sound card problem
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 12:00:21 +0200
Hi Clive,
I'm sorry, but it's not this simple. Of course, checking /proc/ioports was the first
thing I tried, but there's no
other device using that port. Meanwhile, I found out that my BIOS is set to "NON-PNP
OS", meaning that my bios
configures all ISA-PNP devices. My system is dual boot, so I checked from Win95 how my
sound card is configured. This
gave me the following:
Card type: ADS7181 (strange, the card itself says it is AD1816...)
IRQ: 5
DMA: 1 and 0
IO: 0x240 (16 bytes), 0x388 (4 bytes) and 0x500 (16 bytes)
MPU:
IRQ: 11
IO: 0x340 (2 bytes)
Joystick:
IO: 0x200 (8 bytes)
I changed my /etc/isapnp.conf to reflect this setting. Relevant lines are:
(READPORT 0x0273)
(ISOLATE PRESERVE)
(IDENTIFY *)
(VERBOSITY 2)
(CONFLICT (IO FATAL)(IRQ FATAL)(DMA FATAL)(MEM FATAL)) # or WARNING
(CONFIGURE ADS7181/-1 (LD 0
(INT 0 (IRQ 5 (MODE +E)))
(DMA 0 (CHANNEL 1))
(DMA 1 (CHANNEL 0))
(IO 0 (SIZE 16) (BASE 0x0240))
(IO 1 (SIZE 4) (BASE 0x0388))
(IO 2 (SIZE 16) (BASE 0x0500))
(NAME "ADS7181/-1[0]{Analog Devices AD1816A}")
(ACT Y)
))
(CONFIGURE ADS7181/-1 (LD 1
(INT 0 (IRQ 11 (MODE +E)))
(IO 0 (SIZE 2) (BASE 0x0330))
(NAME "ADS7181/-1[1]{Analog Devices AD1816A}")
(ACT Y)
))
(CONFIGURE ADS7181/-1 (LD 2
(IO 0 (SIZE 8) (BASE 0x0200))
(NAME "ADS7181/-1[2]{Analog Devices AD1816A}")
(ACT Y)
))
(WAITFORKEY)
As you can see, I left out the (CHECK) option in all IO-port configuration lines,
because otherwise isapnp would
fail. With this setup, I managed to get the joystick to work, and the soundcard works
with the
Soundblaster/Soundblaster-pro driver, although the driver complains that my card is
NOT fully sb-compatible, which,
indeed, it is not.
With this configuration, I get at least SOME sound, bit 16 bit doesn't seem to work.
Do you have any more suggestions?
Thanx a lot already,
Pieter van Beek
Clive DaSilva wrote:
> Hi Pieter
>
> ok, another device is using 0x220. try this ..cat /proc/ioports and
> you will see what device is using this address. edit /etc/isapnp.conf
> and use another address, an unused one. I had this problem when i went
> from slackware 3.6 to 7.1
>
> good luck
>
> Pieter van Beek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >I have an ad1816 pnp sound card, and RH6.0, kernel 2.2.5
> >
> >The problem is, it won't play a sound. The mixer works, though, I can test that
>with the microphone.
> >Below, there's some more information about what I found out so far. Does anyone
>knoe what could be going on here?
> >
> >Pieter van Beek.
> >
> >when running isapnp is run, it complains:
> >
> >Board 1 has Identity 2f ff ff ff ff 81 71 93 04: ADS7181 Serial No -1 [checksum 2f]
> >isapnp.conf:64 -- Fatal - resource conflict allocating 16 bytes of IO at 220 (see
>isapnp.conf)
> >isapnp.conf:64 -- Fatal - IO range check attempted while device activated
> >isapnp.conf:64 -- Fatal - Error occurred executing request '<IORESCHECK> ' ---
>further action aborted
> >
> >After removing the (CHECK) option in the corresponding line in isapnp.conf, it
>works:
> >
> >Board 1 has Identity 2f ff ff ff ff 81 71 93 04: ADS7181 Serial No -1 [checksum
> > 2f]
> >ADS7181/-1[0]{Analog Devices AD1816A}: Ports 0x220 0x388 0x530; IRQ5 DMA1 DMA3 -
> >-- Enabled OK
> >
> >Loading the module goes fine, too:
> >
> >Sep 14 20:48:59 node1527a kernel: ad1816: AD1816 sounddriver Copyright (C) 1998
> >by Thorsten Knabe
> >Sep 14 20:48:59 node1527a kernel: ad1816: $Header: /home/tek/tmp/CVSROOT/sound21
> >/ad1816.c,v 1.28 1999/01/16 19:01:36 tek Exp $
> >Sep 14 20:48:59 node1527a kernel: ad1816: io=0x530, irq=5, dma=1, dma2=3, isadma
> >bug=0
> >Sep 14 20:48:59 node1527a kernel: ad1816: detect(530)
> >Sep 14 20:48:59 node1527a kernel: ad1816: detect() - Detected OK
> >Sep 14 20:48:59 node1527a kernel: ad1816: AD1816 Version: 1
> >Sep 14 20:48:59 node1527a kernel: YM3812 and OPL-3 driver Copyright (C) by Hannu
> > Savolainen, Rob Hooft 1993-1996
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Barry OGrady)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Linux on ZIP Floppy?
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 12:46:28 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 24 Sep 2000 21:53:54 +1200, Steve Withers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>I have a P-166 with 64MB of RAM.....and a spare IDE ZIP floppy drive
>(roughly 97MB capacity). I'd like to install a basic Linux sytem on the
>ZIP floppy that would support my ethernet card and a text-based user
>interface. I'd actually like to run the command line version of the SETI
>@ Home client on this wee system.
>
>An alternative would be to boot the system from a CD and use the ZIP
>floppy as writeable storage - perhaps the swap file could go there.
>
>Anyone done this?
I've never heard of a Zip floppy. Do you mean the 100 Mb Zip disk?
ZipSlack is supposed to run on a 100 Mb Zip disk, and it is very easy to install.
>Regards,
>
>Steve Withers
Barry
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