Re: New/old kernel devices disappearing?

1998-12-16 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote: On Tue, 15 Dec 1998 17:16:04 +0100 (CET), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: that can be fixing with lilo if you put it its configuration file append=mem=128Mo No French spoken here. :-) Make that append=mem=128M Thanks, guys, but: a) Not using LILO b) I found

Re: New/old kernel devices disappearing?

1998-12-16 Thread pat
On 15-Dec-98, Peter (Troff) Petroff took time to write : [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: by the way you can install lilo on a diskette and boot with it. Erm... why would I want to do that? I use the bootdisk if I want Linux, just to use the append=mem=128M thingy. otherwise I leave it out and

New/old kernel devices disappearing?

1998-12-15 Thread Peter \(Troff\) Petroff
Hi, could anyone please help a relative newbie desperately trying to escape the Winborg empire? As soon as I can reliably switch all jobs to analogous applications under Linux, I'm shifting my friends (and hopefully my office) to Linux. And preferably Debian, I'm so trying to avoid

RE: New/old kernel devices disappearing?

1998-12-15 Thread pat
On 15-Dec-98, Peter \(Troff\) Petroff took time to write : kernel 2.0.34 on hdb1, typically out of a boot floppy, no LILO. too bad ! with LILO you could have all your ram (128Mo) seen in 2.0.34 ! The problems are: *

RE: New/old kernel devices disappearing?

1998-12-15 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Tue, 15 Dec 1998 17:16:04 +0100 (CET), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: that can be fixing with lilo if you put it its configuration file append=mem=128Mo No French spoken here. :-) Make that append=mem=128M Ralf -- Ralf G. R. Bergs * Welkenrather Str. 100/102 * 52074 Aachen * Germany

Re: New/old kernel devices disappearing?

1998-12-15 Thread Peter Berlau
On Tue, Dec 15, 1998 at 09:11:44PM +1000, Peter Troff Petroff wrote: Hi, could anyone please help a relative newbie desperately trying to escape the Winborg empire? As soon as I can reliably switch all jobs to analogous applications under Linux, I'm shifting my friends (and hopefully

Re: New/old kernel devices disappearing?

1998-12-15 Thread Karl B. Hammar
On Tue, 15 Dec 1998, Peter (Troff) Petroff wrote: Machine description: The machine is an AMD K6-233 with 128MB RAM, ISA (nonPnP) NE2000 compatible network card, an Ensoniq EAPCI; Winborg on hda1; dLinux2.02 with typically a kernel 2.0.34 on hdb1, typically out of a boot floppy,

Re: New/old kernel devices disappearing?

1998-12-15 Thread Peter \(Troff\) Petroff
Peter Berlau wrote: * Crucial: Disappearing kernel devices: Under 2.0.34, I have full NE2000 and PPP. But: - only 64MB RAM instead of 128 add a line in Your lilo.conf like append=mem=128M Can't. Even if I was using LILO, I'd want to avoid this technique. I first

Re: New/old kernel devices disappearing?

1998-12-15 Thread Peter \(Troff\) Petroff
Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote: On Tue, 15 Dec 1998 17:16:04 +0100 (CET), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: that can be fixing with lilo if you put it its configuration file append=mem=128Mo No French spoken here. :-) Make that append=mem=128M Thanks, guys, but: a) Not using LILO b) I found the reference

Re: New/old kernel devices disappearing?

1998-12-15 Thread Peter \(Troff\) Petroff
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: that can be fixing with lilo if you put it its configuration file append=mem=128Mo Ah. Objection already noted. But thank you. by the way you can install lilo on a diskette and boot with it. Erm... why would I want to do that? I use the bootdisk if I want Linux,