On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 08:14:32AM -0800 or so it is rumoured hereabouts,
Maria G Martinez thought:
> According to what I have read, the Debian Superrescue
> CD has native PPA (apparently the name for the zip
> driver??) support for the zip disk (or something like
> that). I have booted my puter
Here's hoping some kind soul will help me out
I'm running Win2k, using Partition Magic. I can't seem to get a clean boot into
either OS without using the appropriate boot disks. I can't figure out what's
going on. I'm getting the same errors over and over again (At least I'm
consistent!
Shari -
Supposedly, Win2K isn't an MBR resident.
My workstation at work is dual-booted (to play Unreal Tournament...) with
LILO in the MBR. Win2K boots from wherever on the disk it's living -
/dev/sda3 or something. We've installed Windows first, Linux first,
Windows then linux then reinst
*thud*
That's the sound of me hitting the floor as a result
of actually getting this thing working.
All I had to do was fix my lilo.conf file to
recognize win2k on the right partition and take
BootMagic off of my Win2k installation and both o/s
started up fine.
So, thanks mandi and abe for
>> It's so nice to have sysadmin friends. It's like having a doctor in
>> the family.
> That's true... but I end up owing him a LOT of beer!(:
I am so very glad that SAs don't only get paid in beer. YUCK
Best,
Caity
(who does too much Systems Admin work in her job... and doesn't like beer
>> It's so nice to have sysadmin friends. It's like having a doctor in
>> the family.
> not to mention having sysadmin husband! the best part about it is
> that when i really need help, i can whine about it, and even tho if
> he wouldn't want to bother himiself on thinking about the subject
> ri
ER, true... I don't like beer either... nor do I try to impose on his good
nature by asking the dumbest questions I come up with.
I leave that for YOU GUYS to help me with! LOL!
Melanie
On Tue, 27 Mar 2001 18:07:02 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> >> It's so nice to have sysadmin frie
> It's not that horrible really. It is a *bit*
> complex but that's just what
> computers are good at, handling complex tasks
> repeatedly. There are
> basically 2 things required for such a Floppy/zip/CD
> system;
Yeah, *sniff* Except that they always do as I tell
them, and I don't explain mys
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 04:09:15PM -0800, Maria G Martinez wrote:
> that right... One question, is the BIOS = CMOS? How
The BIOS (Basic Input/Output System) is the software that performs
machine level tasks. CMOS (Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor) is
a type of RAM which your BIOS stores
