Hi Glenn, That's the problem. It won't allow me to install without switching it on!
:( The install failed frequently: Freezes for in excess of 30 minutes, Claims that it couldn't install various packages etc This was the case even though I tried both GUI and text installations and burnt the ISO to disc three times more. As soon as I turned on 'OS Install Mode', it was a clean install within a reasonable length of time. It's been suggested to me that I check out the BIOS version and consider updating it if necessary. If I can bring myself to spend more time on it I may just do that. Pity, because the machine is in excellent condition (I was given two but the second one has some wonky capacitors - slight bulging) Regards, Patrick On 27/03/2009, Glen Turner <[email protected]> wrote: > > elliott-brennan wrote: > >> What the hell has this been created for? >> > > For installing Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 on machines > with more the 2GB of RAM. For Linux you can leave > Dell's "OS Install Mode" off. > > -- > Glen Turner <http://www.gdt.id.au/~gdt/> > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
