On Wed, 26 Jun 2002 09:52:26 +0000 (UTC), mRgOBLIN
<mrgoblinNO@userlocalSPAM.comPLEASE> scribbled furtively:

thought I'd report back on what I've achieved so far.
my main blurb here will be about dual booting, but some other comments
too...

} > so far the HOWTO's have not answered some of my questions....
} > - how so set up both the modem for PPP dialup to my ISP AND the
}
} pppsetup

ran through that and tried ppp-go but got none of the expected
results. checked the log and found it reporting 'no dialtone'.
went to the appropriate file and removed the line
'abort "NO DIALTONE"'
and tried again with the same result....

I KNOW my modem will not find the dialtone even if it's there as when
the telco changed to a digital exchange a few years back every modem
in town stopped dialing if it had 'wait for dialtone' turned on.

what now?

} > ethernet card for my local network (I've been running 2 or 3 PC's
}
} netconfig

yeah man, required a reboot though there is probably a way to force
the eth0 module to load?
anyhow, jumped to the wife's Win95 box and told IE to fetch the web
page and it worked! I'm impressed (-: except the default index was
in heiroglyphs and I had to copy index.html.en to index.html to get
english. but so cool to have my own web server (-:

} > - how to reinstall my 2.3Gb disk with Win95 on it and set up for dual
} > boot, and also tell Linux how to access the 2nd drive as a FAT32
} > partition. I cannot at this time lose Win95 entirely, but my plan is
} > to do that, in the meantime, I need to boot Linux and access the data
} > on the other drive.

ok, some notes on this that will help someone.....
note that I installed Linux on a single drive using all the space
(with a 64meg swap partition).
I then reconnected my drive containing Windows95a as the primary slave
and did the stuff

} For booting win98
} put it in as Primary slave and add these lines to /etc/lilo.conf
}
} # DOS bootable partition config begins
} other = /dev/hdb1
} label = win98
} table = /dev/hdb
} # DOS bootable partition config ends
}
} Then run
} lilo

and rebooted. got the correct menu, but selecting Win to boot got me
a 'invalid boot disk, replace and pres any key' type of message (like
an unformatted drive)

the solution was found in 'man lilo', I needed the drive swap stuff so
now my /etc/lilo.conf is

# Linux bootable partition config begins
image = /vmlinuz
root = /dev/hda1
label = Linux
read-only
# Linux bootable partition config ends
# DOS bootable partition config begins
other = /dev/hdb1
label = WIN95
table = /dev/hdb
map-drive=0x80
to=0x81
map-drive=0x81
to=0x80
# DOS bootable partition config ends

presto, it boots ok..... as evidenced by my typing this as I'm using
Free Agent...

} Know your hardware and run
} xf86config

yah, tried that.... SuperSnoop or whatever it is foudn my card ok as
S3 Trio3d/2x but I don't see that in the database of card types in
XF86Config. I made what I thought were reasonable choces except for
that, and 'startx' aborts at what seems to be near the end of it's
startup process. can't recall the exact message now though.

so, I'll be reading all the howtos I can find and see.... maybe Ineed
to load the latest FX86?

} > thanks for any help
}
} You are welcome
}
} mRgOBLIN

I thank you again, much appreciated.....



David Forsyth
http://terrapin.ru.ac.za/satrain/
http://terrapin.ru.ac.za/satrain/lathe/
Living in South Africa