On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 05:22:34PM +0100, Timm Florian Gloger wrote: > If i just install a minimal system as Brandon suggested, the > installation process works properly (except that disk geometry allegedly > wrong, but the system-guessed values are correct for LBA mode).
Well, that's something. > >How do you know that the network card doesn't work? If you go to the > >emergency shell (alt-F4, IIRC) and type 'ifconfig', does it show a > >network interface with 'media: Ethernet'? > > > > Yes. The card is detected and also configured while the install process, > but every try to connect to a ftp server fails. Do you have a router and/or firewall? If so, is it configured correctly to let ftp from this machine through? <snip> > So is it possible to instruct the sysinstall to write its bootloader to > the mbr of the master harddisk and detect and conigure winxp for dual boot? I think this is covered in the Handbook. Roland -- R.F.Smith (http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/) Please send e-mail as plain text. public key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt
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