Hi Enrique. > I'm a newbie with Linux and I'm trying to install Red Hat 7.3 in my > AMD K6 box (128 mb RAM, 233 mhz, 6 gb hard drive) to be the sole OS > for that box.
There should be no problems with that setup - I recently installed Red Hat 7.3 on an AMD K6 box with a 266 MHz cpu but otherwise identical to your specification and had no problems at all. > When the installation program tries to detect the network card > (eth0) it gives me a FAILED message. What precicely is the FAILED message? There are many different ones that can come up, and the precice message is needed to determine the problem. Also, what is the network card it's trying to detect? > I'm trying to have a home network using a LinkSys router with a > Windows XP box and this AMD PC connected peer to peer and another > ethernet connection to use with my laptop. I presume what you really mean is that you are trying to set up a home network with three systems on it, these being your Windows XP box, the AMD you're trying to set up under Red Hat Linux and your laptop, and you are using either 10baseT or 100baseTX ethernet with the LinkSys router acting as a routing hub for the three of them. > I'm trying to decide if the problem is in the NIC card or in my > attempt to install Red Hat. If you're letting Red Hat Linux use its normal installation package, then you should be unable to cause problems. However, it is always possible that there is a problem with the NIC itself. > Is it very difficult to connect a Linux box and an XP box peer to > peer? If they both detect the network interface correctly, then both Linux and XP automatically set up 99% of what is required to produce a network setup like the description above. All you need to do is to allocate an IP address for each system, and you can set up the Linux system to do that for the other systems automatically using DHCP software. Best wishes from Riley. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
