Re: Hard Install

1998-02-10 Thread David E. Scott
George R wrote: Has anyone had Win95 change your CMOS settings? George, I don't know: how could I tell, unless it's evidence would be a mess up of something obvious like my clock? Dave -- --David E. Scott Ohio Administrative Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Re: Hard Install

1998-02-10 Thread George R
On 02/09/98 at 07:41 PM, David E. Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: George R wrote: Has anyone had Win95 change your CMOS settings? George, I don't know: how could I tell, unless it's evidence would be a mess up of something obvious like my clock? Weird things, like the drive you have on

Re: Hard Install

1998-02-10 Thread George R
On 02/09/98 at 07:31 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gerald V. Livingston lI) said: Try replacing the CMOS battery. I had one that would do strange things when I shut it off - I figured if the battery got low enough it would start going wierd on resets too. Not the problem, unless of course 3

Re: Hard Install

1998-02-10 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Feb 09, 1998 at 07:52:19PM +, George R wrote: Weird things, like the drive you have on your secondary ide disappears. After checking the CMOS you find the secondary controller disabled. If you have a CMOS controlled CPU speed, the speed changes after a lockup and restart in safe

Re: Hard Install

1998-02-10 Thread George R
On 02/10/98 at 01:47 PM, Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Well, anything can happen in a good-sized crash. Windows 95 can't change individual settings because their locations aren't standardized between BIOS manufacturers (AMI, Phoenix, Award, MR BIOS etc). Some of the basic settings are

Re: Hard Install

1998-02-10 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Feb 09, 1998 at 09:56:49PM +, George R wrote: On 02/10/98 at 01:47 PM, Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Well, anything can happen in a good-sized crash. Windows 95 can't change individual settings because their locations aren't standardized between BIOS manufacturers (AMI,

Re: Hard Install

1998-02-10 Thread George R
On 02/10/98 at 06:33 PM, Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Mon, Feb 09, 1998 at 09:56:49PM +, George R wrote: Is this just Win95 or do other OS's mess with the CMOS? In 10+ years I've only experianced this with Win95. Well, Windows 95 has only been out for two and a half so that

Re: Hard Install

1998-02-10 Thread Igor Grobman
Well, I must confirm. Every time I reinstall win95, it reenables the default APM configuration in my BIOS, and I don't even have a standard one, but rather the obscure Acer BIOS. This behaviour has been very consistent, and I can easily reproduce it. -- Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux

Re: Hard Install

1998-02-09 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Feb 04, 1998 at 09:36:06PM +, George R wrote: Total time(ftp, making disks from images, formating hard disk, scaning disk, and install) under 1.5 hrs. One problem, I set up myself with the wrong user id. Now I have 2 users. How do I kill one user? Yes, I know RTM and the

Re: Hard Install

1998-02-09 Thread George R
On 02/09/98 at 03:20 PM, Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Wed, Feb 04, 1998 at 09:36:06PM +, George R wrote: That was easier than OS/2; about the same as DOS; tons easier than Win95. What is the fuss about? I agree with your sentiments but I don't think this is really true. When

Hard Install

1998-02-05 Thread George R
Man, after hearing all the horror stories of Linux installs I had to try ;) Well, not being a patient one I ftp'd the disk images for Debian. Blew off the HOWTO's Total time(ftp, making disks from images, formating hard disk, scaning disk, and install) under 1.5 hrs. One problem, I set up

Re: Hard Install

1998-02-05 Thread dpk
On Wed, 4 Feb 1998, George R wrote: Man, after hearing all the horror stories of Linux installs I had to try ;) Well, not being a patient one I ftp'd the disk images for Debian. Blew off the HOWTO's Total time(ftp, making disks from images, formating hard disk, scaning disk, and

Re: Hard Install

1998-02-05 Thread Ben Gertzfield
George == George R [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: George Now I have 2 users. How do I kill one user? Yes, I know George RTM and the HOWTO's. 'apropos user' or 'man -k user' | grep -i delete shows me the 'userdel' program. :) George That was easier than OS/2; about the same as DOS;