pentium 100 woes.

pentium 100 woes.

[Shaun Oliver]

hi guys,
I just recently aquired a pentium 100 to turn into a linux box.
my problem is however,
I cannot get the machinte to boot first time every time.
would anyone have any idea as to why this is?
just to give a quick background,
I have a 2Gb hard drive as my primary drive which has my root filesystem
mounted on it as well as a 165Mb swap partition.
my /usr/local and /home directories are mounted on my second drive which
is a 4Gb broken up into 3 partitions.
and the 3rd partition on that drive is a fat32 partition.
my question is, would I need to add a line to my lilo.conf to tell my
machine to use lba support or is the problem more serious than that?
I have found that after much swearing and at the very least 10 reboots, I
get linux to come up.
thanks in advance for any help


-- 
Shaun Oliver

Marriage is a three ring circus:
engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
                -- Roger Price

Email: shauno@goanna.net.au
Icq: 76958435

Re: pentium 100 woes.

[Steve Holmes]

Sure can't hurt to try the LBA support but I doubt it is really necessary
for the 2 gig drive. When it fails do you get any funky errors? I have one
machine (old 486/66) which keeps giving me loss of interrupt messages with
a 2 gig drive on the second IDE controler. When I put it on my primary
controler, the machine just hangs and I don't even get a lilo boot prompt
or any of that. LBA did not help that situation. I ended up having to
stick to 2.2.19 kernel on that box to get around the loss of interrupt
problems. For some strange reason, I could never get a 2.4 kernel to run
on that box.

On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, Shaun Oliver wrote:

> hi guys,
> I just recently aquired a pentium 100 to turn into a linux box.
> my problem is however,
> I cannot get the machinte to boot first time every time.
> would anyone have any idea as to why this is?
> just to give a quick background,
> I have a 2Gb hard drive as my primary drive which has my root filesystem
> mounted on it as well as a 165Mb swap partition.
> my /usr/local and /home directories are mounted on my second drive which
> is a 4Gb broken up into 3 partitions.
> and the 3rd partition on that drive is a fat32 partition.
> my question is, would I need to add a line to my lilo.conf to tell my
> machine to use lba support or is the problem more serious than that?
> I have found that after much swearing and at the very least 10 reboots, I
> get linux to come up.
> thanks in advance for any help
>
>
>

Re: pentium 100 woes.

[Shaun Oliver]

I can't even get the thing to come up with 2.2.16 kernel
I've had people look at the screen and all I get is funny characters.
I get a lilo prompt but fuck all else.
after no less than 10 reboots I get it to come up talking.
I sometimes get a crc error which suggests that the checksums aren't quite
right
I've just about run out of ideas here.
and another thing, I can never get it to boot from the hard drive only via
the installation disk.
so for now i"m on windows until I can get it to boot first time every time.



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----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Holmes" <steve@holmesgrown.com>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, December 28, 2001 12:51 AM
Subject: Re: pentium 100 woes.


> Sure can't hurt to try the LBA support but I doubt it is really necessary
> for the 2 gig drive. When it fails do you get any funky errors? I have one
> machine (old 486/66) which keeps giving me loss of interrupt messages with
> a 2 gig drive on the second IDE controler. When I put it on my primary
> controler, the machine just hangs and I don't even get a lilo boot prompt
> or any of that. LBA did not help that situation. I ended up having to
> stick to 2.2.19 kernel on that box to get around the loss of interrupt
> problems. For some strange reason, I could never get a 2.4 kernel to run
> on that box.
>
> On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, Shaun Oliver wrote:
>
> > hi guys,
> > I just recently aquired a pentium 100 to turn into a linux box.
> > my problem is however,
> > I cannot get the machinte to boot first time every time.
> > would anyone have any idea as to why this is?
> > just to give a quick background,
> > I have a 2Gb hard drive as my primary drive which has my root filesystem
> > mounted on it as well as a 165Mb swap partition.
> > my /usr/local and /home directories are mounted on my second drive which
> > is a 4Gb broken up into 3 partitions.
> > and the 3rd partition on that drive is a fat32 partition.
> > my question is, would I need to add a line to my lilo.conf to tell my
> > machine to use lba support or is the problem more serious than that?
> > I have found that after much swearing and at the very least 10 reboots,
I
> > get linux to come up.
> > thanks in advance for any help
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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Re: pentium 100 woes.

[Shaun Oliver]

just to add to my plite this machine has 64Mb of ram yet I sometimes also
get an out of memory error as well.



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----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Holmes" <steve@holmesgrown.com>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, December 28, 2001 12:51 AM
Subject: Re: pentium 100 woes.


> Sure can't hurt to try the LBA support but I doubt it is really necessary
> for the 2 gig drive. When it fails do you get any funky errors? I have one
> machine (old 486/66) which keeps giving me loss of interrupt messages with
> a 2 gig drive on the second IDE controler. When I put it on my primary
> controler, the machine just hangs and I don't even get a lilo boot prompt
> or any of that. LBA did not help that situation. I ended up having to
> stick to 2.2.19 kernel on that box to get around the loss of interrupt
> problems. For some strange reason, I could never get a 2.4 kernel to run
> on that box.
>
> On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, Shaun Oliver wrote:
>
> > hi guys,
> > I just recently aquired a pentium 100 to turn into a linux box.
> > my problem is however,
> > I cannot get the machinte to boot first time every time.
> > would anyone have any idea as to why this is?
> > just to give a quick background,
> > I have a 2Gb hard drive as my primary drive which has my root filesystem
> > mounted on it as well as a 165Mb swap partition.
> > my /usr/local and /home directories are mounted on my second drive which
> > is a 4Gb broken up into 3 partitions.
> > and the 3rd partition on that drive is a fat32 partition.
> > my question is, would I need to add a line to my lilo.conf to tell my
> > machine to use lba support or is the problem more serious than that?
> > I have found that after much swearing and at the very least 10 reboots,
I
> > get linux to come up.
> > thanks in advance for any help
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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Re: pentium 100 woes.

[Gregory Nowak]

On the reboots that Linux doesn't come up, what happens?
Greg


On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 08:54:49PM +1100, Shaun Oliver wrote:
> hi guys,
> I just recently aquired a pentium 100 to turn into a linux box.
> my problem is however,
> I cannot get the machinte to boot first time every time.
> would anyone have any idea as to why this is?
> just to give a quick background,
> I have a 2Gb hard drive as my primary drive which has my root filesystem
> mounted on it as well as a 165Mb swap partition.
> my /usr/local and /home directories are mounted on my second drive which
> is a 4Gb broken up into 3 partitions.
> and the 3rd partition on that drive is a fat32 partition.
> my question is, would I need to add a line to my lilo.conf to tell my
> machine to use lba support or is the problem more serious than that?
> I have found that after much swearing and at the very least 10 reboots, I
> get linux to come up.
> thanks in advance for any help
> 
> 
> -- 
> Shaun Oliver
> 
> Marriage is a three ring circus:
> engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
>                 -- Roger Price
> 
> Email: shauno@goanna.net.au
> Icq: 76958435
> 
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Re: pentium 100 woes.

[Gregory Nowak]

If you want to stick with the 2.2.x series kernels, then you may want to upgrade to the latest one which is 2.2.20.
Greg


On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 06:51:18AM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
> Sure can't hurt to try the LBA support but I doubt it is really necessary
> for the 2 gig drive. When it fails do you get any funky errors? I have one
> machine (old 486/66) which keeps giving me loss of interrupt messages with
> a 2 gig drive on the second IDE controler. When I put it on my primary
> controler, the machine just hangs and I don't even get a lilo boot prompt
> or any of that. LBA did not help that situation. I ended up having to
> stick to 2.2.19 kernel on that box to get around the loss of interrupt
> problems. For some strange reason, I could never get a 2.4 kernel to run
> on that box.
> 
> On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, Shaun Oliver wrote:
> 
> > hi guys,
> > I just recently aquired a pentium 100 to turn into a linux box.
> > my problem is however,
> > I cannot get the machinte to boot first time every time.
> > would anyone have any idea as to why this is?
> > just to give a quick background,
> > I have a 2Gb hard drive as my primary drive which has my root filesystem
> > mounted on it as well as a 165Mb swap partition.
> > my /usr/local and /home directories are mounted on my second drive which
> > is a 4Gb broken up into 3 partitions.
> > and the 3rd partition on that drive is a fat32 partition.
> > my question is, would I need to add a line to my lilo.conf to tell my
> > machine to use lba support or is the problem more serious than that?
> > I have found that after much swearing and at the very least 10 reboots, I
> > get linux to come up.
> > thanks in advance for any help
> >
> >
> >
> 
> 
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Re: pentium 100 woes.

[Gregory Nowak]

Sounds to me like a bad bios or system bus.
Greg


On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 01:02:15AM +1100, Shaun Oliver wrote:
> just to add to my plite this machine has 64Mb of ram yet I sometimes also
> get an out of memory error as well.
> 
> 
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> From: "Steve Holmes" <steve@holmesgrown.com>
> To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Friday, December 28, 2001 12:51 AM
> Subject: Re: pentium 100 woes.
> 
> 
> > Sure can't hurt to try the LBA support but I doubt it is really necessary
> > for the 2 gig drive. When it fails do you get any funky errors? I have one
> > machine (old 486/66) which keeps giving me loss of interrupt messages with
> > a 2 gig drive on the second IDE controler. When I put it on my primary
> > controler, the machine just hangs and I don't even get a lilo boot prompt
> > or any of that. LBA did not help that situation. I ended up having to
> > stick to 2.2.19 kernel on that box to get around the loss of interrupt
> > problems. For some strange reason, I could never get a 2.4 kernel to run
> > on that box.
> >
> > On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, Shaun Oliver wrote:
> >
> > > hi guys,
> > > I just recently aquired a pentium 100 to turn into a linux box.
> > > my problem is however,
> > > I cannot get the machinte to boot first time every time.
> > > would anyone have any idea as to why this is?
> > > just to give a quick background,
> > > I have a 2Gb hard drive as my primary drive which has my root filesystem
> > > mounted on it as well as a 165Mb swap partition.
> > > my /usr/local and /home directories are mounted on my second drive which
> > > is a 4Gb broken up into 3 partitions.
> > > and the 3rd partition on that drive is a fat32 partition.
> > > my question is, would I need to add a line to my lilo.conf to tell my
> > > machine to use lba support or is the problem more serious than that?
> > > I have found that after much swearing and at the very least 10 reboots,
> I
> > > get linux to come up.
> > > thanks in advance for any help
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
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Re: pentium 100 woes.

[Shaun Oliver]

ok, on the reboots that linux doesn't come up, what happens is a few
things.
it's never the same.
I either get a out of memory error, a crc error, total lockup or I might 
be lucky and get a reboot.
we found an option in the bios but I don't know if this may have any
baring on it,
there's an option that says pci ide mapped to isa.
and we cannot change it.
the motherboard is a gigabyte and the chipset is intel.
is the bios on that board flashable and if so would it possibly help my
situation any?
On Thu, 27 Dec
2001,
Gregory Nowak wrote:

> On the reboots that Linux doesn't come up, what happens?
> Greg
> 
> 
> On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 08:54:49PM +1100, Shaun Oliver wrote:
> > hi guys,
> > I just recently aquired a pentium 100 to turn into a linux box.
> > my problem is however,
> > I cannot get the machinte to boot first time every time.
> > would anyone have any idea as to why this is?
> > just to give a quick background,
> > I have a 2Gb hard drive as my primary drive which has my root filesystem
> > mounted on it as well as a 165Mb swap partition.
> > my /usr/local and /home directories are mounted on my second drive which
> > is a 4Gb broken up into 3 partitions.
> > and the 3rd partition on that drive is a fat32 partition.
> > my question is, would I need to add a line to my lilo.conf to tell my
> > machine to use lba support or is the problem more serious than that?
> > I have found that after much swearing and at the very least 10 reboots, I
> > get linux to come up.
> > thanks in advance for any help
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > Shaun Oliver
> > 
> > Marriage is a three ring circus:
> > engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
> >                 -- Roger Price
> > 
> > Email: shauno@goanna.net.au
> > Icq: 76958435
> > 
> > 
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Marriage is a three ring circus:
engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
                -- Roger Price

Email: shauno@goanna.net.au
Icq: 76958435

Re: pentium 100 woes.

[Shaun Oliver]

just to add to my last post,
windows 9x and 2000 both boot up on that machine just fine without any
complaints.
so it's got me stumped.
at the moment I've put my linux drive back in my pentium200 and gonna
keep it that way until I can figure this bastard out.
On Sat, 29 Dec 2001,
Shaun Oliver wrote:

> ok, on the reboots that linux doesn't come up, what happens is a few
> things.
> it's never the same.
> I either get a out of memory error, a crc error, total lockup or I might 
> be lucky and get a reboot.
> we found an option in the bios but I don't know if this may have any
> baring on it,
> there's an option that says pci ide mapped to isa.
> and we cannot change it.
> the motherboard is a gigabyte and the chipset is intel.
> is the bios on that board flashable and if so would it possibly help my
> situation any?
> On Thu, 27 Dec
> 2001,
> Gregory Nowak wrote:
> 
> > On the reboots that Linux doesn't come up, what happens?
> > Greg
> > 
> > 
> > On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 08:54:49PM +1100, Shaun Oliver wrote:
> > > hi guys,
> > > I just recently aquired a pentium 100 to turn into a linux box.
> > > my problem is however,
> > > I cannot get the machinte to boot first time every time.
> > > would anyone have any idea as to why this is?
> > > just to give a quick background,
> > > I have a 2Gb hard drive as my primary drive which has my root filesystem
> > > mounted on it as well as a 165Mb swap partition.
> > > my /usr/local and /home directories are mounted on my second drive which
> > > is a 4Gb broken up into 3 partitions.
> > > and the 3rd partition on that drive is a fat32 partition.
> > > my question is, would I need to add a line to my lilo.conf to tell my
> > > machine to use lba support or is the problem more serious than that?
> > > I have found that after much swearing and at the very least 10 reboots, I
> > > get linux to come up.
> > > thanks in advance for any help
> > > 
> > > 
> > > -- 
> > > Shaun Oliver
> > > 
> > > Marriage is a three ring circus:
> > > engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
> > >                 -- Roger Price
> > > 
> > > Email: shauno@goanna.net.au
> > > Icq: 76958435
> > > 
> > > 
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Marriage is a three ring circus:
engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
                -- Roger Price

Email: shauno@goanna.net.au
Icq: 76958435

Re: pentium 100 woes.

[Kerry Hoath]

If you are seeing crc errors on a kernel boot up
or intermittent boot failures and the kernel loads just fine on another machine
you have a hardware problem.
Either the motherboard is faulty, (they can fail without warning)
or the ram is bad; or the ram timings in the bios or set by jumpers
are not correct. All of these can cause strange system behaviour,
signal 11s, spurious crashes and other strangeness.
Windows machines just bluescreen once or twice a day under these circumstances.

see http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/
Regards, Kerry.
On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 12:08:57AM +1100, Shaun Oliver wrote:
> ok, on the reboots that linux doesn't come up, what happens is a few
> things.
> it's never the same.
> I either get a out of memory error, a crc error, total lockup or I might 
> be lucky and get a reboot.
> we found an option in the bios but I don't know if this may have any
> baring on it,
> there's an option that says pci ide mapped to isa.
> and we cannot change it.
> the motherboard is a gigabyte and the chipset is intel.
> is the bios on that board flashable and if so would it possibly help my
> situation any?
> On Thu, 27 Dec
> 2001,
> Gregory Nowak wrote:
> 
> > On the reboots that Linux doesn't come up, what happens?
> > Greg
> > 
> > 
> > On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 08:54:49PM +1100, Shaun Oliver wrote:
> > > hi guys,
> > > I just recently aquired a pentium 100 to turn into a linux box.
> > > my problem is however,
> > > I cannot get the machinte to boot first time every time.
> > > would anyone have any idea as to why this is?
> > > just to give a quick background,
> > > I have a 2Gb hard drive as my primary drive which has my root filesystem
> > > mounted on it as well as a 165Mb swap partition.
> > > my /usr/local and /home directories are mounted on my second drive which
> > > is a 4Gb broken up into 3 partitions.
> > > and the 3rd partition on that drive is a fat32 partition.
> > > my question is, would I need to add a line to my lilo.conf to tell my
> > > machine to use lba support or is the problem more serious than that?
> > > I have found that after much swearing and at the very least 10 reboots, I
> > > get linux to come up.
> > > thanks in advance for any help
> > > 
> > > 
> > > -- 
> > > Shaun Oliver
> > > 
> > > Marriage is a three ring circus:
> > > engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
> > >                 -- Roger Price
> > > 
> > > Email: shauno@goanna.net.au
> > > Icq: 76958435
> > > 
> > > 
> > > _______________________________________________
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> 
> -- 
> Shaun Oliver
> 
> Marriage is a three ring circus:
> engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
>                 -- Roger Price
> 
> Email: shauno@goanna.net.au
> Icq: 76958435
> 
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Re: pentium 100 woes.

[Pete]

  Hi  Shaun
  on some of the gigabyt boards there is two bioses, the first one is used
to boot normally and the second one is a backup.  There is a way to restore
your primary bios from the backup but I don't remember it now.  Hope fully
your board has this dule bios feature.  I don't know when gigabyt came out
whith it.  What's the model number?

  Pete
  P.S.
  What intel chip set is it?

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From: "Shaun Oliver" <shauno@goanna.net.au>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, December 28, 2001 8:08 AM
Subject: Re: pentium 100 woes.


> ok, on the reboots that linux doesn't come up, what happens is a few
> things.
> it's never the same.
> I either get a out of memory error, a crc error, total lockup or I might
> be lucky and get a reboot.
> we found an option in the bios but I don't know if this may have any
> baring on it,
> there's an option that says pci ide mapped to isa.
> and we cannot change it.
> the motherboard is a gigabyte and the chipset is intel.
> is the bios on that board flashable and if so would it possibly help my
> situation any?
> On Thu, 27 Dec
> 2001,
> Gregory Nowak wrote:
>
> > On the reboots that Linux doesn't come up, what happens?
> > Greg
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 08:54:49PM +1100, Shaun Oliver wrote:
> > > hi guys,
> > > I just recently aquired a pentium 100 to turn into a linux box.
> > > my problem is however,
> > > I cannot get the machinte to boot first time every time.
> > > would anyone have any idea as to why this is?
> > > just to give a quick background,
> > > I have a 2Gb hard drive as my primary drive which has my root
filesystem
> > > mounted on it as well as a 165Mb swap partition.
> > > my /usr/local and /home directories are mounted on my second drive
which
> > > is a 4Gb broken up into 3 partitions.
> > > and the 3rd partition on that drive is a fat32 partition.
> > > my question is, would I need to add a line to my lilo.conf to tell my
> > > machine to use lba support or is the problem more serious than that?
> > > I have found that after much swearing and at the very least 10
reboots, I
> > > get linux to come up.
> > > thanks in advance for any help
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Shaun Oliver
> > >
> > > Marriage is a three ring circus:
> > > engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
> > >                 -- Roger Price
> > >
> > > Email: shauno@goanna.net.au
> > > Icq: 76958435
> > >
> > >
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > Speakup mailing list
> > > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
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>
> --
> Shaun Oliver
>
> Marriage is a three ring circus:
> engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
>                 -- Roger Price
>
> Email: shauno@goanna.net.au
> Icq: 76958435
>
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Re: pentium 100 woes.

[Shaun Oliver]

I can't tell you the model number but I can tell you. that the machine
was bought in 1995.
and as for the intel chipset I'll find that out for you too.
On Sat, 29 Dec
2001, Pete wrote:

> 
>   Hi  Shaun
>   on some of the gigabyt boards there is two bioses, the first one is used
> to boot normally and the second one is a backup.  There is a way to restore
> your primary bios from the backup but I don't remember it now.  Hope fully
> your board has this dule bios feature.  I don't know when gigabyt came out
> whith it.  What's the model number?
> 
>   Pete
>   P.S.
>   What intel chip set is it?
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Shaun Oliver" <shauno@goanna.net.au>
> To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Friday, December 28, 2001 8:08 AM
> Subject: Re: pentium 100 woes.
> 
> 
> > ok, on the reboots that linux doesn't come up, what happens is a few
> > things.
> > it's never the same.
> > I either get a out of memory error, a crc error, total lockup or I might
> > be lucky and get a reboot.
> > we found an option in the bios but I don't know if this may have any
> > baring on it,
> > there's an option that says pci ide mapped to isa.
> > and we cannot change it.
> > the motherboard is a gigabyte and the chipset is intel.
> > is the bios on that board flashable and if so would it possibly help my
> > situation any?
> > On Thu, 27 Dec
> > 2001,
> > Gregory Nowak wrote:
> >
> > > On the reboots that Linux doesn't come up, what happens?
> > > Greg
> > >
> > >
> > > On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 08:54:49PM +1100, Shaun Oliver wrote:
> > > > hi guys,
> > > > I just recently aquired a pentium 100 to turn into a linux box.
> > > > my problem is however,
> > > > I cannot get the machinte to boot first time every time.
> > > > would anyone have any idea as to why this is?
> > > > just to give a quick background,
> > > > I have a 2Gb hard drive as my primary drive which has my root
> filesystem
> > > > mounted on it as well as a 165Mb swap partition.
> > > > my /usr/local and /home directories are mounted on my second drive
> which
> > > > is a 4Gb broken up into 3 partitions.
> > > > and the 3rd partition on that drive is a fat32 partition.
> > > > my question is, would I need to add a line to my lilo.conf to tell my
> > > > machine to use lba support or is the problem more serious than that?
> > > > I have found that after much swearing and at the very least 10
> reboots, I
> > > > get linux to come up.
> > > > thanks in advance for any help
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Shaun Oliver
> > > >
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> > Shaun Oliver
> >
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-- 
Shaun Oliver

Marriage is a three ring circus:
engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
                -- Roger Price

Email: shauno@goanna.net.au
Icq: 76958435