Re: [techtalk] Dual Boot

2000-03-06 Thread Nathan T. Lynch
g your current LILO configuration?")... at least here in debian-ville. > > -nicole > > "Nathan T. Lynch" wrote: > > > > It's probably better to do the Win2k install first, then Mandrake, so > > you can install LILO in the MBR. LILO will be ove

Re: [techtalk] Dual Boot

2000-03-05 Thread Nathan T. Lynch
It's probably better to do the Win2k install first, then Mandrake, so you can install LILO in the MBR. LILO will be overwritten if you do the Win2k install second, I reckon. (Unless w2k is nicer than its predecessors.) Nathan Phil V Savoie wrote: > > Hi All, > > Would anyone have any experie

Re: [techtalk] Poor performance on home LAN

2000-02-08 Thread Nathan T. Lynch
I seem to be in the habit of forgetting to include rather relevant info in my posts and replies... Laurel Fan: ... (you aren't overclocking, are you? does the card share an interrupt?)... Rik Hemsley: The theories about it being the OS' networking layer or hardware (shared interrupts etc) see

Re: [techtalk] Poor performance on home LAN

2000-02-08 Thread Nathan T. Lynch
> According to the ifconfig source, it's frame alignment error. I think > frame alignment error usually means that it gets a packet/frame that is > not properly aligned, IE not a multiple of 8 bits. That definitely > shouldn't be happening that often. Hmm. Maybe there's some sort of trouble wi

[techtalk] Poor performance on home LAN

2000-02-07 Thread Nathan T. Lynch
Hello. I've been wrestling with a performance problem on my 10baseT home LAN. I'm running a linux firewall between the network and a cable modem, and everything was wonderful until I bought a new desktop machine. Regardless of which model of network card I use, file transfer times between the n