"Owen G. Emry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My firewall machine (a trusty old 486 DX4) has a bios that doesn't like the > year 2000. It isn't a major problem but several things (e.g. make) > complain, so is there an easy workaround? > > I assume I can just set the real-time clock to, say, 1990, and have the > internal clock set itself to the RTC + ten years on bootup. What do I have > to change to accomplish this, or is there a better solution altogether?
Have you actually tried rebooting and manually setting the year from the bios? I had a 486 with similar problems that hwclock couldn't handle, but it has had no problems since I manually set it to 2000. -- Carl Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
