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KernelPanic:
Calum I treid basiclinux today and i get the gay hpfs error. Version 1.7 seems to me to be seriously fucked. Unforunately I lost the old version I has in a catastrophic data loss thingy that happened a while ago. It is probably on some outdated FTP server somewhere. I might try to find it one day.

Calum:
no, that error comes from the version of DOS i was using. use a MSDOS 5.0 bootdisk instead and you'll get on fine. i installed it on its own partition by running it in RAM by running boot.bat in DOS, then running bas2hd to install it on /dev/hda2. Still trying to track down how to include xircom creditcard support though, i'll get there...

Calum:
i'm in over my head.

i can't make the xircom pcmcia card work in basiclinux or in windows 3.11 for workgroups, and i even have the xircom driver for windows 3.11 so how sad is that?

also, the computer has started to reboot randomly, every half hour or hour or so. i haven't seen it do this in windows, and i am reluctant to reinstall linux as i think it sets a bad precedent if it will need reinstalled this frequently.

i will probably end up buying a parallel port cdrom if i can ever find one, and a serial modem, which annoys me, but there you go.

I might then try JAILBAIT or some other linux. i might even try mandrake, but that really annoys me as i feel like i will be robbed of much of the customisability that i want to learn about. 'big name' distros just give me the impression of keeping things simple at the expense of keeping them cryptic.

well, i'm off to ebay. i've admitted defeat.

Calum:
i keep finding single and double floppy distros which have no intention of being installed on the hard drive! does anybody know if there is a way to cannibalise this linux distro so i can have XFree on basiclinux, while only using floppies to get it there?

just a thought. thanks et c...

[edit] well it looks as if i need this. i can't understand much of these instructions though. i'll get there. sorry i keep posting and answering my own questions. maybe i'm not asking the right ones of myself though, as i seem to not be getting much further than just downloading lumps of stuff off the internet and not doing much with them.

[ November 30, 2002: Message edited by: Calum ]

KernelPanic:
Right this is what I think you should do. Since your network card only works in windows.

1) Partition you drive so that you have one 20Mb partition and another that occupies the rest.
2) Install Windows (yuk) on the larger partition and get it online.
3) Download xf86 with windows but onto the 20Mb partition.
4) Boot off of the basic linux floppies, format the windows (large) partition as ext2.
5) Do the hdinstall of basiclinux onto the freshly formatted partition.
6) Boot into you new basiclinux install.
7) Mount the 20Mb drive and recover the files from it.
8) install XFree86.

That is an anoying but clean enough solution for the XFree problem, but if you will need to install any large packages again you are stuffed.

Maybe scp works over a serial/parallel connection. Void Main?

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