RE: [aclug-L] plug and pray!

[Michael Holmes <maholmes@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I have an old mother board, 1996.  486-80.  I bought a 6.4g western 
digital.  I never did anything to erase the drive from windows, It thought 
the drive belonged to it.  When I got home, I could not get win95 to boot, 
so installed the emergency disk.  It came up detecting new devices, 2.1 g 
fixed drive, and proceeded to format it for me, never asked if I wanted to. 
 Plus after that win 95 never booted either, it would only run in safe 
mode.  At the install, we never could get the modem configured.

-----Original Message-----
From:   Clint A. Brubakken [SMTP:cabrubak@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent:   Tuesday, March 09, 1999 11:20 AM
To:     'aclug-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject:        Re: [aclug-L] plug and pray!

you'll need to use isapnp, check out its web page for details, (it should
be in your install) http://www.roestock.demon.co.uk/isapnptools/.

what version of windows are you using, and how did you partiti i've
partioned and installed an existing windows partion and never saw that
happen



On Tue, 9 Mar 1999, Michael Holmes wrote:

> I was at the install fest.  When I got home the 6.8g did not last, as 
when
> I run windows, it saw the missing partition and "automatically" as a
> personal favor formatted the missing drive!  Sounds like a vendetta to 
me!
>  Anyway after I finished committing various acts against my hardware, I 
sat
> down and retried.  you must format the hard drive all of it, and then run 
> the drive magic program (my bios is prior '96, it does not recognize 
above
> 2.1g).  Then before you setup windows, you must remove the target drive
> space(for LINUX) and then setup windows, with the missing drive space.
>  That way it is used to not having the area. Then after all that go ahead 
> and install LINUX.
>
> MY PROBLEM IS.....
> I have no clue on how to go about getting the plug and pray devices to 
work
> in LINUX.  I have the settings win95 uses, but I don't know what you guys 
> did to get the computer to even look at them.  I have a serria 33.6 
modem,
> fax, voice, and an ensonic ess sound card.  Help will be greatly appreci 
> ated.  Detailed instructions a must, as I am confused!
>
> mike
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