Re: Defeting Crappy Bios

2002-09-29 Thread TooMany Mirrors
There is nothing more that can be done in the bios as far as adding the cdrom etc. It is how it is and my only options right now are to figure out how to install linux after booting to a win98 floppy. :( I also fdisked the whole disk, so most of the "bios" features required the hardrive stuff w

Defeting Crappy Bios

2002-09-29 Thread TooMany Mirrors
I have a compaq computer I got for $30.00 and though a good price, has a really awful bios feature that not only only lets me boot to a floppy it won't boot to anything but a windows boot disk. I hostly can't explain it, but that is the state of things, so don't ask :) So my question is if ther

appolgise for the name

2002-09-21 Thread TooMany Mirrors
Just noticed that when I signed up for this hotmail account I set the name as "Linus Torvals" to not give my real name, but this is of course a butchering of his name I belive and just generally not cool. Sorry to all and Linus TooManyMirrors ___