Hello Steven - At 12:04 PM 11/10/02 +0000, you wrote:
[...] >In some respects the point-and-click-Linux bigots are just as >annoying as the Windows bigots. Just because they click on >RedHat eye-candy instead of Microsoft eye-candy, doesn't make >them Linux experts. True. I don't quarrel with anyone about GUIs. I use W31 and DOS CLI and have reasons for using each of them. >Of my five PCs, only two have CDrom drives (neither bootable). >Only one of the drives works with Linux. The other is an old >SoundBaster (non-IDE) for which no Linux driver was ever made. >It can't use the usual sbpcd driver -- my drive was a short-run >SoundBlaster variation (dumped in New Zealand) that never went >into wide circulation. I wish I'd known that when I bought it. At one time it seemed that CD drives would all be using the sound card as the controller then it just _stopped_. No idea as to why. I have one of those CD drives here but never installed it - I only wanted the SB card. :-) >So what do I do with a bootable CDrom? I can't boot it. I can't >be bothered making floppies (even if that option is available). >So I go looking on the CDrom for something that looks like a >filesystem image (the iso directory is a good place to look) and >boot that with loadlin.exe. Usually works like a charm (thanks >to DOS). I wasn't aware of that option. Something I will need to keep in mind. :-) Charles Angelich The Ghost in the Machine! DOS and W31 Tech website: http://www.undercoverdesign.com/dosghost/ Stories, poems, MP3/MIDI music, and photos website: http://www.undercoverdesign.com/dosghost/faf/ To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
