I keep finding out more while I wait for more info from others. Now I discover that my title is wrong too. I had booted the CD from a different compter and thought it was the one I am working on now. The one now is a 350Mhz PIII, 384MB system. Aparently it is not fully apic compliant so astlinux tries to use the apic but has conflicts with the NIC cards.
Googling has indicated that older PIII's need to be set to noapic or apic=no for booting the kernal in linux. I suspect that that adjustment cannot go into the USB mem stick but needs to be part of the CD / IDE-CF card deal. I d/l the new iso for 0.3.0 and searched for a "freeware" iso editor to be ready to install the changes before burning the CD. Alas I haven't been able to find any. So I set up to go the IDE route a little earlier. I just got my IDE adapter in mail a couple of weeks ago. I plugged in a 32Mb CF card after deleting all the picutures from it. Then mounted in 2nd channel in PC. I tried to get PC to recognize the CF/IDE card as a "hard drive" but have been unsuccessful so far. Since I tried to install the windows install version of astlinux, I noticed I need recognition of a drive 0 or drive 1. I tried 'auto' in bios config. Then tried 'user' 64cyl, 16hd, 63 sec. Then tried these cyls 61, 54. then when on to change from PIO mode 'auto' to '0'. All the above are no go. One of the docs I read indicated that the astlinux install is configured for 16hds and 63 sectors. I did find instructions on how to partition and format the CF disk but need recognition to do that. I checked the CF card, power plug and IDE connector can only be plugged in one direction only and all are correct. The CF card is a PNY 32Mb size. Rich Sias _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.kriscompanies.com/mailman/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
