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I'm having a bit of trouble setting up a router on my old computer.
It's a K6 233 160Mb RAM with a Quantum 4Gb hdd on a PC Chips M575 mobo.
I'm trying to install smoothwall and it detects my hard drive, but when it scans the partitons is can't read it, spitting out an error about "waiting for DMA" or something like that.
Any idea's how to fix this? Or do you have any other distro suggestions that a linux n00b could handle?
Many thanks,
Unts.
edit: I should have mentioned I use a Realtek NIC for LAN and a Teles BRI PCI ISDN TA for the net.
It's not DMA that's the problem. I downloaded the version 2 GPL of smoothwall and I get the same problem with not being able to read partitions. I got the same on another computer too. I'm going to try a tool that will low level format the target hard drive, hopefully enabling the smoothwall setup program to create it's own mbr and read it!
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