Hi all, I have an old 486-based laptop (Escom Paradigma (aka Featron FT4000, I think)) which I would like to use as a terminal. Therefore, I'd like to install some kind of Linux on it. I already tried some of the floppy-based Linux', but most of them failed to boot, so I decided to give good ol' Red Hat a try. The laptop has only 8MB, so trying 7.x was out of the question. I tried 5.2, but it seems too old to deal with some of the hardware. Hence, I'm now trying RHL 6.2.
As I have no CD-ROM for that laptop (and it's certainly not worthwhile buying one...), I'm trying to install via network. I have a 3c589 PCMCIA NIC in the laptop. The RHL 6.2 "pcmcia" floppy boots fine, recognizes the hard drive (a 1GB Toshiba drive - the BIOS is complaining, presumably because it's too old for such a "large" drive) and finds the 3c589. The NIC then gets assigned IRQ 3. After entering all network information, the laptop successfully mounts the installation CD via NFS (so I assume the 3c589 is working as such) and starts reading from it, however, a little while later everything stops. On one of the screens I get an error message "lost interrupts on NIC" (or similar), then errors from NFS. Seemingly, the NIC isn't getting its interrupts properly. Now, on bootup, I can see that one of the serial ports also has IRQ 3, so maybe that's the reason for the conflict. My question is therefore: Is there a way to force the installer to use another IRQ for the NIC? Any other suggestions are also welcome (including suggestions for other *nix that might be better suited for this task - I've already tried OpenBSD 3.1, but it doesn't seem to find the hard drive. It *does* assign the 3c589 to IRQ 14, though...). Regards, Thomas -- http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html ...'cause only lusers quote signatures! Thomas Ribbrock | http://www.ribbrock.org | ICQ#: 15839919 "You have to live on the edge of reality - to make your dreams come true!" -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
