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Re: Help with install

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Sun Jan 10 11:10:09 1999

To: Aidan Low <aidan@MIT.EDU>
Cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
From: amu@MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Date: 10 Jan 1999 11:10:00 -0500
In-Reply-To: Aidan Low's message of "Sat, 09 Jan 1999 18:49:02 EST"

Aidan Low <aidan@MIT.EDU> writes:

> I start up the boot floppy, select expert mode to choose my ethernet card
> (3C900), and enter my ip address and dns info.  After I put in "sipb-nfs"
> and "/redhat/5.2/i386", it waits for a while and then says "mount failed:
> Invalid argument"

If you have the combo version of the 3c900, try running some
configuration program (such as 3c90xcfg) to change the media type from
autodetect (which I guess the driver still can't handle) to the actual type.

-- 
Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC <amu@mit.edu> (finger amu@monk.mit.edu)

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