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jrothwell97 wrote:Forget it if you're planning on using wireless networking. I can't find a single adapter that I can get to work with Linux, natively or with ndiswrapper.

How about getting a wireless networking ethernet bridge?

I got my RAlink card working but they give some reasonable level of support to linux. I'm also using an old Linksys wrt54g [20 quid from ebay] with DD-WRT installed (which is awesome, incidentally) as a bridge to ethernet for another wlan that has lousy signal strength.

I've got the 3Com 3CRWE254G72, and looking at this, I'm hoping it's supported.

That's the good thing about a livecd, you can pop it in and see if it works or not with no lasting effect on the hard drive's contents

How can I get into MSDos on my Windows XP machine to format c: - Sadly I can't find the origional CD and the floppy drive is buggered...

http://www.debianadmin.com/ubuntu-edgy- ... shots.html

This shows how you can re-partition and/or re-format the hard drive using the ubuntu cd, including in a way that works with windows.

Ta, so presumably if I want to completely wipe the desk and install Ubunto with bugger all else on the computer, I choose "Erase Entire Disk" rather than "Manually Edit Partition Table"...

There should be something like that, yes. There's always an automatic option in linux installs that allows you to obliterate your data.

How can I get into MSDos on my Windows XP machine to format c: - Sadly I can't find the origional CD and the floppy drive is buggered...

You can't, because XP is based on Windows NT and as such does not have MS-DOS. The 'Command Prompt' is only a clone of the DOS Shell, and all DOS programs which run use an emulation.

However, any new OS you install should give you the chance to reformat/repartition your disk as part of it's setup.

Have tried installing this eveing but am getting the following:
I have Googled this, and followed steps from this forum post, but it is still not working.

Anyone else experience the same problem, and crucially, is there a solution!!

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