![]() However the RedHat install procedure could not detect it. This card was reported to work with the 'tulip' driver. After much trying and even a kernel recompile the card refused to work with said driver, so I swapped it with a D-Link DT-530 PCI card from another PC. ![]() The one I first used was a Realtek8019 ISA card, this is an NE2000 compatible card and thus *should* use the ne2000 driver. ![]() A 1GB hard disk was used instead.Ī secondary problem was the NIC. The system could boot from an MSDos bootdisk launching Linux from LOADLIN but this was far from acceptable. This evolved into a system that hung at boot with a "LI" prompt and a few questions on UCOL highlighted this problem as being a drive geometry problem. Having installed RH6 before a few times I *knew* this would be a breeze.I believe "famous last words" is the phrase I am looking for here! Installation seemed fine but on 1st boot (and subsequent ones) I encountered "invalid compressed format" errors as the system tried to Uncompress Linux. I was planning on replacing the HD with a much larger one but wanted to test the installation on the rest of the system first. I assembled a PC from bits lying around the IT stores - a fun exercise in itself - and ended up with a test system of P133, 32MB Ram and 540MB HD. Windows LAN server HOW-TO: Installation Next Previous Contents
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