Re: PCI BIOS problems DEFEAT

2000-02-18 Thread Patrick Kirk
day, February 18, 2000 6:26 PM Subject: Re: PCI BIOS problems DEFEAT > Quoting Patrick Kirk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > [snip] > > > > > patric >Imagine how I felt as the CD drive that the Debian CD choked on > > worked > > > > choked on - that is - it died

Re: PCI BIOS problems DEFEAT

2000-02-18 Thread David Wright
Quoting Patrick Kirk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > [snip] > > > patric >Imagine how I felt as the CD drive that the Debian CD choked on > worked > > choked on - that is - it died on contact with loadlin. Loadlin? That's DOS software isn't it? And Real DOS, not DOSbox. You were running it from a Real DO

Re: PCI BIOS problems DEFEAT

2000-02-18 Thread Patrick Kirk
[snip] > patric >Imagine how I felt as the CD drive that the Debian CD choked on worked choked on - that is - it died on contact with loadlin. > patric >flawlessly - creaking 2-speed brute! The cards installed flawlessly on the > patric >same IRQs that failed under Linux. Its a real choker tha

Re: PCI BIOS problems DEFEAT

2000-02-18 Thread aphro
On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, Patrick Kirk wrote: patric >Imagine how I felt as the CD drive that the Debian CD choked on worked patric >flawlessly - creaking 2-speed brute! The cards installed flawlessly on the patric >same IRQs that failed under Linux. Its a real choker that these old boxes patric >w

Re: PCI BIOS problems DEFEAT

2000-02-18 Thread Patrick Kirk
In the end, I installed 4 different NICs all of which worked but all of which prevented a second card being loaded. After over 10 hours, I decided that this had made the small move from being a challenge to being an obsession. I gave up and put the Win98 CD in to restore it. Imagine how I felt a