said:
>
>
>
>>4. To answer Steven's question I again attempted to install eCS 1.2R
>> a. preparing to start installer OK
>>
>>
>
>Is this with or without using the boot update diskette to update the Dani driver?
>
>
No. Creating the boot update diskette was one of the tasks down the
list of things to do.
>> However, today the table also listed the UBUNTU volume
>> which gave me the opportunity to use LVM to define a
>>
>>
>
>This impliess there was something odd with the original partitioning. As
>I mentioned, LVM is not very forgiving. Dfsee could have fixed this if
>you had asked it too.
>
>
True. I did originally manage to define partitions using Dfsee, but I
was never able to
format them-- not for lack of trying. By the time I went to install
UBUNTU, I had
deleted all of those partitions (easy to do with UBUNTU).
>> i. rebooting a second time
>> At this point the screen went wild with a Mondrianesque
>> colorful image of many squares and blinking. There
>> was another re-boot and a message followed by more
>> fancy random colorful blinking.
>>
>>
>
>Very odd. I guess the video driver is having issues or you had a hardware
>glitch. This kind of blinking usually means the software thinks it is in
>PM graphics mode, but the video system does not not agree.
>
>
>
>> DHCPSTRT continuing to try in background
>> Press enter to continue.
>> (At this point I let the screen blink for over 1/2 hour
>> before turning off the computer.)
>>
>>
>
>Did you ever press enter?
>
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Yes I could not have seen any blinking until after pressing enter.
>You may have a NIC recognition issue.
>
>Steven
>
>
>
So what is NIC recognition problem (issue?) and how can it be fixed?
More to the point why do I have such problems?
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