Re: [Sheflug] My network hassles/BIOS issues.

[Barrie Bremner <nospam [at] ecosse.net>]

Alex Hudson wrote:
> 
> Do a search through either the linux-kernel mailing list archive, or
> Alan Cox's diary, and grep for "Alan Cox" and "BIOS writer". Generally,
> it's quite funny, but also amazing how much damage those guys can do :[.
> Very often it seems that the release milestone is 'it assembles', which
> is quite sad for such an important piece of software....
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Alex.

 I guess my bad typing didn't make it clear that the machine is sorted
and happily running on the network. It was something to do with BIOS
settings, although I'm convinced I reset them last night, but to no
avail. Any way, another BIOS reset and then some playing seems to have
sorted it.

 On the BIOS writer front, I can use Windoze versions - I can use my
Win98 machine at work to download the stuff and put it on disk.
 My only problem is figuring out which motherboard I've inherited...I
know from the motherboard code it's an ABit, but I don't know the model.

 Any one know of a good source of moderate sized
secondhand/cheap/refurb'ed IDE HDD (6-10Gb)? I want to use this machine
as a fileserver/backup box, but 540Mb ain't that useful these days :-)
 Only other option is to splash out 125 quid on a 40Gb IBM drive and
swap out the 10Gb in my main machine.

 Cheers.

Baz.
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