Linux-Setup Digest #83, Volume #20 Tue, 21 Nov 00 11:13:17 EST
Contents:
Re: help - printer won't work ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: ppp idle connection termination (Dmitry Litvintsev)
Re: help - printer won't work (Huw Lynes)
mtv no ("wkeungy")
Lilo Error (The Guy)
Re: Kernel Compilation Errors (was Re: "Warning: Pasting would not give a valid
pre-processing token") (Rand Simberg)
Re: A Little Help with Installing Linux From Scratch and not from one of the
distributors (Huw Lynes)
Installing on laptop without cdrom? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: microemacs 4.00 port? (Neil Cherry)
Re: mtv no (Harald Wagener)
Re: re-partiton to get rid of windows ("Jeffrey S. Kline")
Re: Lilo Error ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Soniq soundcard does not work ("Jeffrey S. Kline")
Re: mtv no (Daryl Fonseca-Holt)
Re: mtv no ("wkeungy")
Sound Support ("Tommy Martin")
Please help - devfs on Debian Woody (Andy Pearce)
Re: Trying to configure X-windows but Intellimouse doesn't work (Eric)
Re: "Warning: Pasting would not give a valid pre-processing token" ("Gene Heskett")
Re: Lilo Error (Roger Leigh)
No text-mode after installation of X-windows (SuSE 7.0) (Lars Diening)
Missing operating system? ("Eric")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: help - printer won't work
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 13:57:13 GMT
In article <8vbsmv$ppb$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Huw Lynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In article <8vbi9i$g0b$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Hi
> > I have Red Hat 7.0 on a Compaq Presario machine, and an Epson Stylus
> > 440. I have managed to set the printer up with printtool by adding the
> > line options parport_pc io=0x378,irq=5 to my /etc/modules.conf file,
> > which gives the appropriate entries for my parallel port. But I can't
> > print anything. When I print any of the testpages from printtool
> nothing
> > comes out of the printer (which works fine under windows). When I do
> lpq
> > at that point it appears that all the test jobs that I am sending get
> > immediately deleted. Has anyone have any idea what's happening and
> why I
> > can't print?
> > Any help will be appreciated.
> > Thanx
> > P.
>
> what does # lpc status
> show happening?
I'm at work now, as soon as I get home, I will check and post it.
Thanx
P.
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From: Dmitry Litvintsev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ppp idle connection termination
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 08:25:39 -0600
Bill Unruh wrote:
> In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Dmitry Litvintsev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> >Anobody knows how get rid of termination of ppp connection
> >due to idle time?
> >(idle 99999999999 in ppp/options does not seem to help)
>
> >rcvd [LCP TermReq id=0x2 "Link inactive"]
> >LCP terminated by peer (Link inactive)
>
> Notice. This is a "recieved " message-- it was your ISP who decided to
> disconnect you due to timeout, not your machine. You cannot fix this
> except by discussing it with your ISP ( why should he let you hog a line
> you are not using?) or by making sure that the line is not idle.
Thanks a lot guys for pointing me my error. I thought that the peer is my
side of the connection.
No, I am not a malicious user. I am ISP for myself. I have modem connection
to a machine which is connected to the Internet. The machine is in the local
area, so I pay for connection only. Thanks again
Dmitry
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From: Huw Lynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: help - printer won't work
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 14:24:53 GMT
> > what does # lpc status
> > show happening?
>
> I'm at work now, as soon as I get home, I will check and post it.
> Thanx
> P.
>
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> Before you buy.
>
Plus (I forgot in my first post) can you send text direct to the printer
e.g. #cat somefile.txt > /dev/lp0
obviously your printer may be lp1 or lp2 etc. This will check that the
hardware is functioning. Hope this catches you before you leave work.
Huw
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From: "wkeungy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: mtv no
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 01:43:58 +1100
Hi guys ! anyone have mtv registered no ?? thanks !!
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From: The Guy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Lilo Error
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 14:42:28 GMT
I recompiled my kernel (2.2.12-20) to incorporate support for an
embedded NIC on my motherboard, and the compile completed successfully.
After amending /etc/lilo.conf to point to the new kernel, I ran lilo,
and received an error message indicating that the new kernel was too
big.
Any suggestions? The compiled size of the kernel was about 1.6M. The
machine is a PC clone - PIII-550 with 132MB ram. Redhat 6.2 is
installed in a standard server configuration.
Thanks.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rand Simberg)
Subject: Re: Kernel Compilation Errors (was Re: "Warning: Pasting would not give a
valid pre-processing token")
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 14:44:15 GMT
On Tue, 21 Nov 2000 11:11:48 GMT, in a place far, far away, Bernhard
Mogens Ege <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> made the phosphor on my monitor glow in
such a way as to indicate that:
>>>>>> "Rand" == Rand Simberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> On Mon, 20 Nov 2000 09:33:17 GMT, in a place far, far away, Bernhard
>> Mogens Ege <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> made the phosphor on my monitor glow in
>> such a way as to indicate that:
>
>>>
>>> On RedHat 7.0 you must change the Makefile to use kgcc instead of
>>> gcc. Also, before you begin anything within the kernel source tree, do
>>> a "make mrproper". Then you can do the "make xconfig" and stuff.
>
>> OK, did all that. I edited Makefile and changed HOSTCC to "kgcc" and
>> did the make mrproper first. I get exactly the same errors. Lots of
>> warnings about not getting valid pre-processing tokens, and the same
>> "badly punctuated paremeter list" errors at the end, with no vmlinuz.
>
>Yes, well, if you looked just a little bit further into that very same
>Makefile, you would find a CC := gcc line which is the one you need to
>change to kgcc.
Looked again--there is no "CC := anything " (i.e., I don't see a colon
in front of an equal sign).
There is a CC =$(CROSS_COMPILE)cc -D__KERNEL__ -I$(HPATH)
But it's not obvious that this is a gcc problem, per se...
Is there something in this line that should be altered?
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From: Huw Lynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: A Little Help with Installing Linux From Scratch and not from one of the
distributors
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 14:41:57 GMT
> Thanks for the suggestions.. I guess I'll give that method a try..
However I
> do have a Syquest 1.5 Gig Removable that is hooked up to a scsi
controller..
> I think I'll try installing linux to that and then build my new
system onto
> the HDD..
>
> I could make a Bootable CD with the stuff I need, Would that be
possible??
Apparently it is. IIRC you need a bootable floppy image to be the first
thing that you write to the cd when creating it. Have never tried it so
I don't know how exactly to go about it. I think the CD-Writing-HOWTO
mentions how to do it.
HTH
Huw Lynes
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc,linux.redhat
Subject: Installing on laptop without cdrom?
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 14:36:57 GMT
I'm trying to install RH6.2 on a laptop without ide cdrom.
i tried to connect a backpack cdrom (to a parallel port) but
install doesn't have any drivers for pp cdroms.
Anyone tried such install before?
There is an option for cdrom module setup, but i'm not
sure about irq to use, and this laptop is absolutely awfull
when it comes to looking at the hardware. Any suggestions ?
(beside getting a new one ;-)
Thanks, Alex
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Neil Cherry)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: microemacs 4.00 port?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:00:04 GMT
On Tue, 21 Nov 2000 13:17:44 GMT, Martin Gregorie wrote:
>I just grabbed the curretn source archive for microEmacs from its home
>site. However, there is no Linux subdirectory and sure enough, a quick
>hack at setting one up failed to compile.
>
>Has anybody ported microEmacs 4.00 to Linux?
>
>If so, can you point me to a source for the files you had to modify,
>please (estruct.h and makefile at least) and stop me re-inventing the
>wheel.
Georgie, please don't take this as being chastised but use a search
engine and you'll find the answer. I recommend www.metacrawler.com
If you still have trouble please contact me and I'll get you the
answer. I'm just trying to teach a few users how to get info so we can
get down to the really hard questions.
I hope this helps, I did find the source so it's out there.
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From: Harald Wagener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: mtv no
Date: 21 Nov 2000 15:59:37 +0100
It's no good stealing software if You can get it for free. The player
underneath mtv (mtvp) is usable without the license. If You want to
use the graphical front end, pay for it.
Besides, there are free alternatives to mtv (like xanim or smpeg -
based on sdl). ask google for 'free mpeg player linux'
H.
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From: "Jeffrey S. Kline" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: re-partiton to get rid of windows
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 09:04:29 -0600
I would probably grab partition magic, and boot up that under a dos floppy.
Then delete the windows partitions, and in they're spot, create a new type
83 linux partition and mount it as something like /pub or /home/pub, or
whatever. I would advise against using partition magic to "move" or "resize"
your existing linux partitions as this is never reliable. And make sure
you've backed up everything on there!!! Just in case of catastropy.
Ultimately, if it were me.... Backup stuff, copy all my hand tune scripts to
floppies, and wipe the drive(s) clean. Then do a fresh clean custom install
and by this time, you've probably rethought out the partitioning the
defaults use so now's the time to set up the sizes you want. By now you've
also probably decided that it would be nice to compile your own "speedy"
kernel so load up that on there and do it. Then bring it back up as a "live"
server/whatever that you normally use. I've gotten to where I can do it in
about 2 hours from scratch.
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"Peter Nunn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi folks...
>
> I have a server system that is currently dual boot, but am now using
> it as a Linux server.
>
> I have run out of space on both / and /usr and want to add some more
> space by getting rid of the dos partitions and re-assigning them to
> linux.
>
> The output from fdisk -l is as follows.
>
> Disk /dev/hda: 64 heads, 63 sectors, 621 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 4032 * 512 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hda1 * 1 620 1249888+ 6 FAT16
>
> Disk /dev/hdb: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1583 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hdb1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux
> /dev/hdb2 14 1583 12611025 5 Extended
> /dev/hdb5 14 460 3590496 83 Linux
> /dev/hdb6 461 779 2562336 83 Linux
> /dev/hdb7 780 971 1542208+ 83 Linux
> /dev/hdb8 972 1099 1028128+ 83 Linux
> /dev/hdb9 1100 1583 3887698+ 6 FAT16
>
> Disk /dev/hdc: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 527 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hdc1 * 1 255 2048256 b Win95 FAT32
> /dev/hdc2 256 527 2184840 5 Extended
> /dev/hdc5 256 511 2056288+ b Win95 FAT32
> /dev/hdc6 512 527 128488+ 82 Linux swap
>
> As you can see most of hdc is dos as is hda.
>
> Now, how do I do this without killing the current linux stuff? How do
> I move my linux stuff to make more room too?
>
> The output from df is
>
> Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hdb1 101089 91150 4720 95% /
> /dev/hdb6 2522048 73816 2320116 3% /home
> /dev/hdb8 1011928 104 960420 0% /tmp
> /dev/hdb7 1517920 1192248 248564 83% /usr
> /dev/hdb5 3534096 373620 2980952 11% /usr/local
>
> Thanks.
>
> Peter
>
> Peter Nunn
> DownUnder
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Lilo Error
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 16:04:04 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 21 Nov 2000 14:42:28 GMT, The Guy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Any suggestions? The compiled size of the kernel was about 1.6M. The
>machine is a PC clone - PIII-550 with 132MB ram. Redhat 6.2 is
>installed in a standard server configuration.
did you make the kernel with
make bzImage
? I no, do it. If yes, try to throw out unused kernel options.
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From: "Jeffrey S. Kline" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
ahn.tech.linux,alt.os.linux,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc,nl.comp.os.linux.installatie,nl.comp.os.linux.overig,worldonline.linux
Subject: Re: Soniq soundcard does not work
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 09:07:05 -0600
Usually, the only hinderance to this card not functioning, is that PNP
support in the BIOS is turned on. Turn it off and tell your CMOS to reset
itself on next boot. It will reassign stuff. Sometimes moving the card to
another slot also helps. Those cards and they're predecessors never had
problems as did the SB-16's either.
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"Bart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8v5kpq$r4e$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi,
>
> I'v got an Ensoniq sound card but when I try to install it. He gives an
> Error.
>
> First:
>
> A PCI soundcard was found in your system. The details are:
> Model Ensoniq | ES1371 [audio PCI -97]
>
> After I clikked on Enter:
>
> The Ensoniq | ES1371 [audio PCI -97]
> Is not currently supported.
>
> How can I make my soundcard work?
>
> Thanks, Bart
>
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Daryl Fonseca-Holt)
Subject: Re: mtv no
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 08:53:53 -0600
I do
On Wed, 22 Nov 2000 01:43:58 +1100, wkeungy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi guys ! anyone have mtv registered no ?? thanks !!
>
>
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From: "wkeungy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: mtv no
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 02:17:00 +1100
Can i have it please !!!!
Daryl Fonseca-Holt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I do
>
> On Wed, 22 Nov 2000 01:43:58 +1100, wkeungy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Hi guys ! anyone have mtv registered no ?? thanks !!
> >
> >
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From: "Tommy Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sound Support
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 09:16:56 -0600
What is the easiest way to get sound support turned on in RedHat 6.2 without
re-compiling the kernel?
I seem to remember seeing a sound config utility on my system at one point
but cannot locate it.
Thanks for any help.
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From: Andy Pearce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Please help - devfs on Debian Woody
Date: 21 Nov 2000 15:04:42 +0000
Any help or suggestions would be very welcome.
I'm trying to use it on debian Woody with kernel 2.4.0-test5.
I've tried various combinations of flags and settings in make
config. Currently I have:
CONFIG_DEVFS=y
CONFIG_DEVFS_MOUNT=y
CONFIG_DEVFS_DEBUG=y
Everything builds fine, but it won't boot. I think I'm
doing something stupid.
I've just been using make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image
to build the .deb file and dpkg -i ../kernel-image<...>.deb to
install. It looks like it all installs ok.
When I reboot, snippets from the screen show ...
request_module[parport_lowlevel]: Root fs not mounted
...
devfs: devfs_debug: 0x2
devfs: boot_options: 0x2
request_module[block-major-8]: Root fs not mounted
VFS: cannot open root device "803" or 08:03
Please append a correct "root=" boot option
Kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on 08:03
lilo.conf reads:
boot=/dev/sda3
append="root=/dev/sda3"
install=/boot/boot.b
map=/boot/map
vga=normal
delay=100
linear
compact
disk=/dev/sda3
heads=255
sectors=63
cylinders=1106
image=/boot/vmLinuz
label=Linux
read-only
image=/boot/bzImage
label=old
read-only
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Trying to configure X-windows but Intellimouse doesn't work
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 16:31:04 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
sammy wrote:
>
> I have tried to configure X-windows several different ways with xf86config
> but each time my Intellimouse doesn't work when I start X-windows. Does
> anyone have any ideas? Thanks!
manually edit /etc/X11/XF86Config and change the pointer protocol to
IMPS/2
Eric
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Date: 21 Nov 2000 9:49:54 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: "Warning: Pasting would not give a valid pre-processing token"
Unrot13 this;
Reply to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to Rand Simberg;
RS> On Sun, 19 Nov 2000 18:51:48 GMT, in a place far, far away,
RS> "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> made the phosphor on
RS> my monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that:
>>:>Because RH 7.0's gcc notoriously can't compile the kernel. Try
>>:>using kgcc (there should be a package of that) instead.
>>
>>: How does that work? If I just rpm the package, will "make" will
>>: use it instead of gcc, or do I have to do some kind of additional
>>: command-line directives during kernels rebuild?
>>
>>Look and find out! Is there any point in your question? This is like
>>asking if the paper will be cut straight when you use scissors. It's
>>less effort to try it than to ask! Are you really asking "how do I
>>recognize which compiler it is that is being used"? Don't be shy!
RS> No, I know that it's using 2.96. Is that the problem compiler?
RS> If so, I'm not sure what to do next. I've read the gcc HOWTO,
RS> and it says to change with a "gcc -V (desired compiler) -v"
RS> But when I look in /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux I see only
RS> two directories:
RS> 2.96 and egcs-2.91.66
RS> I tried the "gcc -V egcs-2.91.66 -v" to no effect--it still told
RS> me that it was using 2.96.
RS> I tried RPMing the kgcc compiler, and was informed that it was
RS> already installed. If so, where is it, and what's it called, and
RS> how to I make it the default?
IN the shell you are doing the make from:
export CC=kgcc
make dep
make clean
make bzImage
make modules
etc
I have a script I use for all that. Quite a bit more complex that the
above, but you should get the idea.
Cheers, Gene
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Roger Leigh)
Subject: Re: Lilo Error
Date: 21 Nov 2000 15:45:03 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 21 Nov 2000 14:42:28 GMT, The Guy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I recompiled my kernel (2.2.12-20) to incorporate support for an
>embedded NIC on my motherboard, and the compile completed successfully.
>After amending /etc/lilo.conf to point to the new kernel, I ran lilo,
>and received an error message indicating that the new kernel was too
>big.
>
>Any suggestions? The compiled size of the kernel was about 1.6M. The
>machine is a PC clone - PIII-550 with 132MB ram. Redhat 6.2 is
>installed in a standard server configuration.
Did you try 'make bzImage' instead of 'zImage'? The old zImage format is
deprecatd. The `big zImage' format allows bigger kernels. Alternatively,
you could try makeing more stuff as modules, intead of being compiled
right in.
HTH,
Roger
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From: Lars Diening <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: No text-mode after installation of X-windows (SuSE 7.0)
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:28:49 +0100
Hello everybody,
I had some problems with the installation of X-windows on my DELL
inspiron notebook (SuSE 7.0). First I tried a resolution of 1024x768,
but fonts seemed to be blured. I had the some problem under windows with
this resolution. So I believe this is due to the fixed resolution of the
display. Hence I switch to 1400x1050, which works pretty nice under both
operating system. The problem is, that when I switch from the graphical
display to one of the text console (via Ctrl-Alt-1) the display is
constantly flashing and shows everything twice or more. This is probably
due to a wrong hsync frequence. It seems, that my installion is not
caplable of restoring the right frequences when switching back to the
text mode. While booting everything is fine, but after starting X (I use
KDE as window manager) I cannot restore text mode. Since I really need
the text mode in the case of a hanging X-system, I hope that somebody of
you might know answer.
Any help is appreciated!
Thanks in advance,
Lars Diening
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From: "Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Missing operating system?
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 10:44:19 -0500
I have installed RH 6.2. I asked used Disk Druid during setup, and
allocated 16 MB to /boot (it actually allocated 22 MB, I'm not sure why),
and the remaining free space to /. I also have a WinME partition. I
installed LILO on the first sector of the /boot partition. I was hoping
that if I set the /boot partition as active using fdisk from my dos startup
disk, I could get it to run lilo and boot (since I don't want to install
LILO on on MBR, due to paranoia). But this doesn't work. All I get is
"Missing Operating System" on the screen. Booting linux from a boot
diskette works fine, and setting my primary DOS partition as active results
in successful boot into WinME.
What am I doing wrong?
Eric
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