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Topic: Newb's various HD Install issues, Deleting LILO, Xircom card issue< Next Oldest | Next Newest >
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Posted: Nov. 07 2003,13:35 QUOTE

Having tried Vector(3.0, 3.2) I am keen to HD install wonderful DSL on my old Digital VP Hinote notebook.  As it doesn't have a CD-Rom, I copied files onto C:\ in the first (DOS) partition and booted from the boot image.  All goes well in the autoconfig. routine including recognising my Xircom 'credit card CEM56 dual ethernet/modem' and listing the driver file reference then a line saying "this resource is temporarily unavailable".
Q? please: what does this mean? Is the driver missing from the module?  I have already downloaded a driver from the (intel) Xircom site which claims to work with any OS.  The vendor of my second hand modem card also confirmed it works with linux, as has the PCMCIA howto page.  How do I go about installing driver into the system?
Other than this, autoconfig completes and desktop opens up fine.
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I tried a hard disk install from the C:\Dos partition into a Linux partition (left over from Vector install.) and got as far as the LILO boot configuration.  I have LILO in my 'master boot record' which I think is preventing me from reconfiguring it to boot up DSL.  I just get error messages.  How can I delete the previous LILO install or edit it to connect to DSL??
Any help greatly appreciated.  DSL is wicked.
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Posted: Nov. 07 2003,18:38 QUOTE

Already having Lilo installed should not cause any problems, maybe if you post more details someone can help you.
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Posted: Nov. 09 2003,17:30 QUOTE

Lilo is sorted now - obvious really, there must have been some Vector L. stuff on my linux hda2 which confused previous lilo. I rebooted dsl on hda1 (ie live) and installed into a new separate hda4 partition.  mkliloboot installed fine into this and worked first time locating dsl from boot.  Still perplexed about the Xircom card though.
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Posted: Nov. 15 2003,00:13 QUOTE

Hi sorry
how did you boot from the iso on your dos partition?

thanks
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Posted: Nov. 19 2003,01:48 QUOTE

Using boot floppy (having written "boot.img" file in ISO to floppy disk with rawrite program
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