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["David Moberg" <davidjmoberg AT lycos.com>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "sindi keesan" <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
 
> I was not asked any kernel config questions about PCMCIA - why?

PCMCIA drivers for older kernels were distributed apart from the
kernel. The pcmcia-cs package @ <http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net>
contains kernel drivers/modules as well as the cardmgr utility to
load them.

> Maybe my messed-up partition table had nothing to do with linux and vfat.
> Could be that part of the drive is just going bad.  (I hope not, it 
> is a large - 1.2G - drive, but I guess 540 should be enough for DOS 
> without Win98).  If the boot sector area is bad, is there some 
> workaround?

Doubtful.

> I eventually started to get 'interrupt' type error messages in 
> linux even when booted from floppy drive - it apparently does some 
> maintenance on hda (DOS).  Is there some way to boot linux and tell 
> it to ignore hda?  (I could disable it in CMOS in order to use 
> linux to compile with).

Hmmm. Add the boot parameter hda=none (or append="hda=none")?

David
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