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From: Crump
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 1995 00:00

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Ben Costello (bencos@sydney.DIALix.oz.au) wrote:

: I am trying to install the Slackware distribution Linux and connot even 
: create a bootable BOOT disk (bare.gz) on my computer with RAWRITE.EXE.
: Rawrite seems to work OK but the system hangs when accessing the floppy 
: at boot. I have tried it on other computers with 100% success, but even 
: using other controller cards and floppy cards will not fix the problem.

: 486DX33(intel)
: American Megatrends BIOS 7/7/91
: Trident TVGA8900c 1M video
: 528M Seagate IDE (unsure about controller)
: Soundblaster mono

Do you have an ethernet card installed?  I could not boot from the
bare.gz because it would hang after polling the parallel ports.  I
found it was my Cabletron ethernet card.  When I swapped in a 3Com it
worked great.

Valerie
vcrump@eecs.wsu.edu

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From: vcrump@unicorn.it.wsu.edu (Crump)
Subject: Re: HELP! Linux install....
Date: 1995/08/15
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