On Saturday 23 March 2002 21:59, Wally wrote: > Thanks to the respondents for the installation help - I appear to have the > vestiges of a Mandrake 8.1 installation on my Vaio 505. I ended up trashing > the drive and reinstalling w2k into a 3gig FAT32 partition, leaving the > rest for MD. I copied CD1 onto the Win drive and made a hd.img boot disk. > (The earlier pcmcia.img effort was extremely slow, to the point where it > seemed to have fallen over.)
Well done.. You are having to work at getting this installed ;-) > > I have now stuck a NetGear FA410TX pcmcia 10/100 NIC into it. How do I get > it to talk to the NIC? It seemed to notice the NIC during the system boot, > but LinuxConf is a tad unfamiliar to me (I have a reasonable understanding > of TCP/IP). Mandrake is pretty good at detecting NIC's You probably just need to set up DHCP if needed, DNS server, Default gateway, and HostName A good tool for this is netconf. It works in X or from the command line. The command 'ifconfig' is good for looking at NIC status and setting it up on the fly. See 'man ifconfig' for a full breakdown > > Also, how do I 'log' to another drive? Can I browse the FAT32 partition as > if it were a local drive? I'm aware that it's dev/hda1, but trying to do ls > or cd to the device came back with 'not a directory'. Yes.. By default Mandrake will mount the first Windows partition as /mnt/windows you can just browse there. If you have trouble writing to the partition (and it is not NTFS) then the permissions in the file /etc/fstab will sort you out. Check out the documentation at http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/fdoc.php3 and on your hard drive at /usr/share/doc/mandrake/en/index.html for basic commands and the file structure. Good luck derek
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