VanLUG Email Archive
Greg Webster (greg@gadgeteer.net)
Sun, 26 Sep 1999 10:08:51 -0700
Hiya,
Just went through the (unbelievably simple) Caldera Openlinux installation
on my primary computer, and all went along great...but for some reason I'm
having a number of setup-type problems.
First, OpenLinux is installed on hda7, as is LILO (hda8 is swap, hda9 is
/usr). When I reboot the system goes right into Windows, never finding LILO
at all. I have to use an old LILO boot disk, which may be causing my other
problems. It was recommended that I install LILO on hda7 by the install
program (Lizard) if I was dual booting, so I did.
Next, it will not find the network card (I assume this is the problem, I
cannot ping the gateway machine).
The system is set up as:
IP: 192.168.1.10
Gateway: 192.168.1.1
Broadcast: 192.168.1.255 (set by default in Openlinux)
Eth0 is a pretty standard ne2000 compatible network card, the IP address
and gateway are the exact same as the windows partition that I'm using to
write and send this email. I get the following message at bootup:
SIOCSIFADDR: Operation not permitted
eth0: unknown interface: No such device
SIOCSIFNETMASK: Operation not permitted
SIOCSOFBRDADDR: Operation not permitted
eth0: unknown interface: No such device
eth0 initialization failed.
I do not know if this is because the bootdisk doesn't have support for my
network card or not, however the first time I booted into OpenLinux on this
machine was before using this boot disk, and got the same thing. I know I'm
missing something amazingly simple, please help?
On that first boot the mouse also worked perfectly fine in KDE, however
since I boot with the old floppy it has stopped (not surprising, probably
mouse support in the kernel on the floppy is missing, once I fix LILO this
should be solved, I think)
Help on this would be great...this is the furthest I've gotten on setting
up dual-boot on my workstation machine.
Thanks,
Greg
Greg Webster - http://www.geekrights.org
Email: greg@gadgeteer.net geek@geekrights.org
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