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From: Carey Nairn <Carey.Nairn@its.utas.edu.au>
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Subject: Re: problem installing 2.1R on Acer Pentium 75
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Carey Nairn wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I guess it had to happen some time.  After *many* trouble-free
> installations in the past I am now having trouble installing 2.1R on a
> pentium 75 Acer machine.  The system boots with the boot.flp and goes
> through the normal messages until it has displayed the device probe
> messages for PCI bus devices and then just hangs.  I have tried both
> atapi.flp and boot.flp with the same results.
> 
> The machine configuration is as follows:
> 
> Pentium 75 cpu
> 16 MB RAM
> ne2000 ethernet card (detected OK)
> sony ATAPI CDROM (detected OK with atapi.flp)
> quantum fireball 1222 MB IDE HDD
> 
> any help is appreciated
> 
> thanks
> Carey
> 
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A small addition to this posting....

I pulled the NE2000 card out and rebooted and the install menu came up
fine.  I put a different NE2000 card (which I had lying around) in and
things stopped working again.  I guess my question now is if I put in a
different (non-NE2000) ethernet card in will my problems go away?

thanks again 
Carey