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| Thread ID: 41442 | 2004-01-11 09:03:00 | Conexant Linmodem - full drivers for free? | Ender (5019) | Press F1 |
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| 206711 | 2004-01-12 21:48:00 | If you happen to have a nice, compatible, winmodem-ey Windows computer in the vicinity of your Linux one, you could get them both network cards and make a network to share the Windows computer's internet. I did that at my mum's house with broadband and once the network was going I didn't even need to configure anything else with internet - just opened Mozilla and there it was. I suppose I could do that here too, but needing the other computer on would be an inconvenience. (At mum's I used a router) And in fact, I've given up on this. I am currently trying to install XP on the linux computer (over everything) and then I will install linux again. But XP is screwed. It won't install. I repartitioned the hard-disk with PartitionMagic so that its ready for Linux after XP, so no operating system currently, blank disk. So I'm running XP from boot. The computer's too old to support CD booting, so I'm using a Windows 98 floppy (DOS) to get to the cd - I run "winnt" in the "i386" folder which starts up a setup thing which says "Please wait while setup copies files to the hard-drive." This isn't the setup installation. ITs preparation for it. When it finishes copying files it says that it needs to restart the computer to begin the installation, or something, and press ENTER to do so. Pressing ENTER does indeed restart the computer, but then it doesn't get to the CD - it sits there saying "non-system disc, please insert correct disc" or something like that. Using the Win98 floppy I can start all over again - running 'winnt', then it says "removing files from previous installation" and eventually it starts copying files, but when it finishes the same thing happens as the first time. Oh, and the setup.exe on the root of the CD won't run in DOS. Any suggestions? I'll put this in a new topic, so reply to this there. pressf1.pcworld.co.nz -Ender |
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