Dell added drivers to the install image, Which is incredibly handy And linux has had this ability since the 90's
On 4/3/09, Bryan O'Neal <[email protected]> wrote: > I used dells raids that came with your choice of an os generic install cd or > network boot image. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Stephen > Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 6:00 PM > To: Main PLUG discussion list > Subject: Re: Cheap NAS or MSI Wind/Eee Box? > > Raid drivers are either injected onto install media or added via floppy > > This has not changed til vista/server 2008 > > On 4/3/09, Bryan O'Neal <[email protected]> wrote: >>>And XP/2k3 can only take drivers from floppy >> What? Last time I had to use a floppy for drivers was 1999! I managed >> hundreds of XP desktops and dozens of Win2003 server and never used a >> floppy for a driver. One of my 2003 servers did not even have a CD/DVD > drive. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of >> Stephen >> Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 8:39 AM >> To: Main PLUG discussion list >> Subject: Re: Cheap NAS or MSI Wind/Eee Box? >> >> Sadly it is still the only way to get some drivers >> >> And XP/2k3 can only take drivers from floppy >> >> >> On 4/3/09, Bob Elzer <[email protected]> wrote: >>> What's a floppy ??? LOL >>> >>> Do they still make those ? >>> >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: [email protected] >>> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of >>> Stephen >>> Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 7:19 AM >>> To: Main PLUG discussion list >>> Subject: Re: Cheap NAS or MSI Wind/Eee Box? >>> >>> This works well but behaves weirdly with ext3 floppies >>> >>> >>> >>> On 4/3/09, Bob Elzer <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> FYI if you like, you can have the full drive use ext3. >>>> >>>> Using ext2ifs will let windows access your ext3/ext2 drive >>>> >>>> http://www.fs-driver.org/ >>>> >>>> >>>> -----Original Message----- >>>> From: [email protected] >>>> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of >>>> Alan Dayley >>>> Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 10:16 PM >>>> To: Main PLUG discussion list >>>> Subject: Re: Cheap NAS or MSI Wind/Eee Box? >>>> >>>> On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 4:46 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> I have been debating recently whether to pick up a cheapish >>>>> networked external hard drive like a Western Digital My Book (that >>>>> one initially because it can be picked up locally, although >>>>> initially googling suggests it might not be very Linux friendly). >>>>> Anyone >>>> >>>> We have a 1TB My Book that works just fine on Linux. Purchased it a >>>> few months ago. I partitioned it half ext3, half FAT32 so we can >>>> use it easily for different things. (For example, copying files >>>> from >>>> ext3 to FAT32 causes permission settings to be lost so I want the >>>> ext3 on the external drive >>>> too.) >>>> >>>> Hate the name, "My Book" but it is working well for us so far. >>>> >>>> Alan >>>> --------------------------------------------------- >>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] >>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>>> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>>> >>>> --------------------------------------------------- >>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] >>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>>> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> Sent from my mobile device >>> >>> A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you >>> from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze > button. >>> >>> Stephen >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> >> >> -- >> Sent from my mobile device >> >> A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from >> rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. >> >> Stephen >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > -- > Sent from my mobile device > > A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from > rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. > > Stephen > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- Sent from my mobile device A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. 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