Re: Do I have a virus?

By the way - are there any known Linux Boot Viruses out there? symptom: lilo won't go away. it's phenomenal. I've completely gotten rid of linux (to my knowledge) off the hard drive - and lilo STILL shows up! Where is it coming from?!?! > A friend of mine (not me...I'm just writing this e-mai

Do I have a virus?

A friend of mine (not me...I'm just writing this e-mail for him - yeah, that's it) decided to remove debian from my...uh...I mean his PC and he's tried several things to make lilo go away so he can go back to his normal win98 life: 1. typed 'fdisk /mbr' at both c:\ and c:\windows\command 2. com

Re: 3com 3c905b

The installation program that comes with the debian base disks shows that 3c59X is for the 3c509 ...so I guess it's okay to use the driver for 3c59x. > 3c59x, 3c9xx, something like that (I think it says both). It's > in the custom kernel compile config. Someone here will correct > me if I'm wron

installation disaster (well maybe not complete disaster) (fwd)

Dear Debian Group, I am a "newbie" trying to install Linux on my AMDK6-2 350Mhz 92MB RAM 6GB HD Win 98 PC. Progress to date: - partitioned HD: hda1- ~ 2GB - Win98 Partition hda2- ~ 72MB - Swap Drive Partition hda3- ~ 3.3 GB - Linux Native Partition - initialize

installation disaster (well maybe not complete disaster)

Dear Debian Group, I am a "newbie" trying to install Linux on my AMDK6-2 350Mhz 92MB RAM 6GB HD Win 98 PC. Progress to date: - partitioned HD: hda1- ~ 2GB - Win98 Partition hda2- ~ 72MB - Swap Drive Partition hda3- ~ 3.3 GB - Linux Native Partition - initializ