Re: PCI BIOS problems DEFEAT
Yes - and the CD sometimes worked sometimes not. Lets face it - Windows 98
will always have a head-start on kit designed expressly for dos. The box in
question, a 385 DX100 chip with 64 MB would simply curl up its toes and die
if I tried NT. Linux at leat got installed, if from floppies and an
internet connection, but the bios beat me.
The new kit they supplied is fine so at least there's a happy ending.
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Wright" <d.wright@open.ac.uk>
To: "Patrick Kirk" <patrick@kirks.net>
Cc: "debian-user" <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Friday, February 18, 2000 6:26 PM
Subject: Re: PCI BIOS problems DEFEAT
> Quoting Patrick Kirk (patrick@kirks.net):
> > [snip]
> >
> > > patric >Imagine how I felt as the CD drive that the Debian CD choked
on
> > worked
> >
> > choked on - that is - it died on contact with loadlin.
>
> Loadlin? That's DOS software isn't it? And Real DOS, not DOSbox.
> You were running it from a Real DOS prompt, and not in Windog?
> Did DOS have the CD drivers loaded correctly?
>
> Cheers,
>
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