[CLUE-Tech] Install redhat 7.3 woes

[Collins]

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On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 20:00:20 -0700 John and lynne <jwlikes3 at attbi.com>
wrote:
> I have an old k-5 233 box with a no-name ne2000 isa card that has
> happily been working with Redhad 6.0, but I decided to update to
> Redhat 7.3, and play around with a more modern Gnome and KDE
> release.  I have tried doing a "from scratch install and I cannot
> get the NIC card to be recognized, although it works fine under RH
> 6.0. 

> 
> Two questions, 
> Is there a way to get 7.3 to accept this card--something else I can
> manually tweek?  This is my first choice.
> 

Don't know.  I have a spare no-name PCI "tulip" card left over from an
ATT cable install.  The card works fine with linux (RH 7.3 autodetects
it).  You could have it for the price of a cup of coffee, if you want
to go that route.


> Is there a way to fully purge the hard drive of all remnantsmnants
> of various installs and start with a clean slate, so I can see if I
> can set this up to dual boot with NT 4.0?

1. delete all partitions with a linux floppy recovery system or a
CDROM (most distro's install CDs work fine), redefine the partitions
the way you want them, and DD the start of all partitions to nulls.

2. Use a dos or win98 floppy to run "fdisk /mbr" to wipe out the mbr.

>     
> Any suggestions would be appreciated, but this is my first time so
> be gentile.
> 

I can't begin to count how may first times I have under my belt at
this point with a little help from my friends.  I'll even be gentile,
since I'm not jewish. <grin>


-- 
Collins Richey - Denver Area
Redhat 7.3 system