I was having trouble yesterday getting an old ISA NE2000 card working in my linux box. Basically I couln't persuade it to tell me what the I/O base and IRQ were set to, so this evening I gave up and decided to use the DOS config tool to divine the settings. Figuring "I need a DOS boot disk", I trolled through my floppy collection, but the only candidate I came up with was labelled "Win98 startup". I booted from this.
As you can probably guess, the disk was the Win98 Install floppy, and it proceeded to trample all over my partitions. Linux is now U/S, so I'm reinstalling.
Lesson for the day: Label disks correctly. |