the aliases should be placed in your rc files before
your modules get loaded. Otherwise there's no point. Also, Look at the
rc.modules file, or whatever equivilant you have, and see that the XL
module is being loaded before the III combo. The first ethernet module
to be loaded should place that card on eth0, second on eth1 automatically.

need to reformat the redhat 8.0 to intall
win2000. i can't uninstall or use lilo. b/c it has
only grub. so i downloaded the fdisk from the web put
it in the bin and then fdisk did work. ok i deleted
all the hde partitions and chked they are all empty.
Rebooted to install the win2000 it says can't see the
hard drive. soon in 15 siconds it reboots and i get
grub> prompt. only halt works here. in cmos do i have
change something or what it could be . do appreciate
any help.

You may need to do a "Low-level format" You should be able to get one
of these apps from your HD manufactorer for dos, but sometimes they can
be a pain. A low-level format brings your harddrive essentially to the
same as when it came out of the factory. If you HD maker doesn't have
a low-level format, go to Maxtor, they do, and it doesn't matter what
brand you use.

You could also try GNU Parted. Get it from GNU here:
http://www.gnu.org/software/parted

Have you tried booting in floppy and use fdisk? say fdisk /mbr

then fdisk again to remove all the partitions.

Merely copying the command.com and command .sys won't make your systems boot n the floppy drive. In a machine with a windows 98 Os, open a DOS prompt then key in " sys A: " this will copy the boot system in drive A: if this will not work go to c:\windows\command then type " sys A: " then copy fdisk.exe from c:\windows\command to drive A: then on the machine where you installed linux, configure the BIOS to boot in Drive A: first in the boot sequence then SAVE your settings. Try then to boot, if its success then type fdisk /mbr