"Owen G. Emry" wrote: > > My firewall machine (a trusty old 486 DX4) has a bios that doesn't like the > year 2000. It isn't a major problem but several things (e.g. make) > complain, so is there an easy workaround? > > I assume I can just set the real-time clock to, say, 1990, and have the > internal clock set itself to the RTC + ten years on bootup. What do I have > to change to accomplish this, or is there a better solution altogether? > > Thanks greatly, > > oge > > -- Quite a few 486'ers need a bios-upgrade to do y2k. Solved it on my Award-based specimen... hth Vitux
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