Re: [LI] Laptop Woes

["Binand Raj S." <binand@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Arun Sharma forced the electrons to say:
> 
> Could you post the hex dump of the first 512 bytes of your disk ?
> You can boot Linux using floppies or the Redhat CD, drop to a 
> command prompt and do od -x on /dev/hda.
> 

Well, I solved the problem with the help of a more knowledgeable
colleague. I deleted the sole partition that linux fdisk was showing me,
and partitioned the disk in the way I wanted, except that /dev/hda1 was
kept as Win 95 FAT 32, and with exactly the same number of cylinders that
Windows told me it had. The rest of the disk was partitioned according
to my fancy, and I went ahead with the install. In the end, I went into
Win 98 and ran scandisk on the the partition. Thus, Arun, I couldn't
collect the info you wanted (hex dump of the first 512 bytes of /dev/hda)

One other problem was that my D-Link 660 ethernet adaptor was using up
irq 3 (again by default). I changed it to 11 and now the in-built modem is
also accessible. The default installation has another problem - pcmcia is
started after network. You have to change the order to access the ethernet
card (I manually edited the files /etc/rc.d/init.d/{pcmcia,network}).

But otherwise, ACI laptops are a good option to those intending to buy one.
They are cheap as well - 50 K for the machine (P 150) and 4 K for the
ethernet card.

Binand

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