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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:
> 
> 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
Here I go responding to my own posting again...

drove to work and got an old 8-bit SMC card and plugged it in.
Everything is now OK.  

cheers,
Carey