Re: PNP hardware and dual boot machine.
isapnptools works okay, probably.
I have gotten cards to recognize and load drivers, but I have never gotten
them actually working before giving up.
Be prepared to edit long config files from pnpdump and also you must know
free IRQs, IO hexes, and Memory ranges for all your devices. They will
probe, but he'll come up with like 5 or 6 viable configurations, only 1 or
2 of which might actually work (especially if you have a commercial
machine-in-a-box). Also, you _may_ have to put your devices in
Memory-Mapped mode (I've heard rumors to that effect). In this case, you
have to find a free memory range that's in the on-limits range for Debian.
Not too hard, but get the range from Debian.org before you go killing
things.
I have no clue about kernel PnP...I'd love to hear about it though! What
kernel are you running?
--adam b.
On Sat, 22 Jul 2000, Shaul Karl wrote:
> 1) Another tool for disk partition management is
> parted - The GNU Parted disk partition resizing program.
> I am not sure how GUI it is.
> 2) I believe that for a MS-Win and Linux dual boot machine you might want to
> look at the isapnptools deb. Suppose to let you use your PNP hardware without
> interfering MS-Win hardware management when it is booted. There is also a new
> kernel option for PNP which I have not explored. Any hints?
>
>
> > Addendum:
> >
> > The easiest (best?) way to get some hardware working under Linux is to
> > disable the Plug-n-Play features it may have. This makes it a royal pain
> > to keep those hardware components working under the Win9x side of your
> > computer. Making Linux do PnP or making Windows _not_ need PnP is one of
> > those annoying things that dual-boot people just have to deal with. This
> > is probably only a problem is you have ISA cards.
> >
> > Make sure to check out the hardware HOWTO before you get started to see if
> > there is any hardware you have that will require disabling PnP so you can
> > do so and get it working again under Windows before getting halfway in and
> > being annoyed. :)
> >
> > --adam b.
> >
> > On Sat, 22 Jul 2000, Ethan Pierce wrote:
> >
> > > David, you certainly can. You will need to establish some linux
> > > partions...many on this list prefer fips utility, but I like partition magic
> > > for dos...its graphical and you can get a good feel for the disk layout.
> > >
> > > -Ethan
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "David" <David@gbinetwork.com>
> > > To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> > > Sent: Saturday, July 22, 2000 2:48 PM
> > > Subject: hi
> > >
> > >
> > > > I'm real interested in downloading and running Debian, but I have win 95
> > > > on my machine now, can I leave win 95 on there and use debian too or?
> > > >
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