On Sat, 22 Dec 2001 23:25:39 -0400 (AST), skidley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Dec 2001, Jose M. Sanchez wrote:
>
> > LM8.1 supports PNP, 8.0 did not.
> >
> > While turning PNP off is a good suggestion if you are having
> > difficulties, you should not resort to this until a problem ar
On Fri, 21 Dec 2001, Jose M. Sanchez wrote:
> LM8.1 supports PNP, 8.0 did not.
>
> While turning PNP off is a good suggestion if you are having
> difficulties, you should not resort to this until a problem arises.
>
> Leaving PNP on helps in dual boot situations too.
>
> I use ReiserFS on ALL of
XFS and the others have no apparent
problem.
Civileme
>
> -Original Message-
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> Sent: Friday, December 21, 2001 4:19 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [newbie] PNP Bios - Off or
: [newbie] PNP Bios - Off or On?
> As part of the preparations for the LM 8.1 installation,
> I have copied my current /home/me to a separate partition
> (/archives) that is ext2fs. Am I correct that if I do an expert
> install, the / and /archives partitions can be ext2fs, and the
>
On Fri, 2001-12-21 at 11:47, Carroll Grigsby wrote:
>
> I'm planning on installing (not updating) LM 8.1 over 8.0 this weekend. I've
> always been told that the PNP aware O/S option in BIOS should be set off, and
> that's what I've been doing in the past. Insofar as I know, whatever problems
>
Carroll,
> But in a recent post, Civilime advised someone to set
> PNP O/S on, although the Mandrake installation manual says
> off. Is this a change in the party line, or is the on
> setting used in problematic situations?
Actually the change is with the kernel. To quote Jose, who
shared thi
I'm planning on installing (not updating) LM 8.1 over 8.0 this weekend. I've
always been told that the PNP aware O/S option in BIOS should be set off, and
that's what I've been doing in the past. Insofar as I know, whatever problems
I've had have not been hardware related (at this site, proble
