My attempts of getting an installation going over the network doesn't seem to succeed since I first need to get my NIC to be usable in Linux (IMNSHO this is NOT easy at all). To do this I did like this: (distro is Slackware 7.0) 1. Create bare.i bootdisk (net.i doesn't find NIC) 2. Create color.gz rootdisk 3. Create network.dsk extra disk Now it all starts out well - but when using "network" the following happens: 1. My card is believed to be an "acenic" card - using this later fails since eth0 isn't there. 2. Removing that it get stuck on "eepro" so I removed that as well. Now after all this I end up with getting no card at all to be usable (according to Linux anyway). It then states that a NE2000 might not be findable (Red Hat didn't know this - it installed it and upon booting crashed the system forcing me to remove the card (same one I'm using now) until I installed SlackWare - and by then I had bought a new PCI card for my main machine). Anyway, it then says that I should start a new tty and write (ex.) modprobe ne io=0x360 So I change to the next tty, login and write this - but what happens then? I get this error message: /lib/modules/2.2.13/net/ne.o: init_module: Device or resource busy (By default all error messages are sent to >dev/null in the script - so I don't know if there's anyting wrong with the scritp as well). Now I was hoping that someone (Steven?) could help me out here, a server without beeing able to use the NIC seems very useless to me ;) And please don't tell me to RTFM - I've read the Ethernet Howto already, not that it helped me at all (I do have some useless knowledge about NE2000 now <g>). Another thing that is interesting is that if a certain module can't be found while testing in "network" it thinks it was working ;-) BTW: This computer doesn't have any "Plug�n�Pray" BIOS functions - that they were one there was the reason my NE2000 PCI card didn't work well in my main machine at first (except in DOS). //Bernie http://bernie.arachne.cz/ DOS programs, Star Wars ... To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
