Yes! I'm definitely interested in buying a Matsonic MS7308E or similar mainboard with the LinuxBIOS pre-installed. It would be great to have a known, good board as a "known-good golden" reference. Price? Availability? Do you take a Master Card or VISA? I understand that my response may sound like a joke, but I'm actually serious. ["Only the truth is funny." as Rick Reynolds once said. ] Although I've found the supplier for the Masonic board on the web as referenced in the HOWTO, I have yet to find a store in Silicon Valley (south San Francisco Bay Area) that sells it. I'm still looking. When I do, I may well try talking them into supplying it... after, of course, Your Truly installs the LinuxBIOS on the Matsonic he sells me to demo the LinuxBIOS to him. ---Sam -----Original Message----- From: Ronald G Minnich [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, September 23, 2001 8:45 PM To: GNUOrder Cc: Terje Stavsoien; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: HELP!! and much more... This brings up a question. If we could provide a working linuxbios mainboard for nominal cost over a bare mainboard, is there interest on this list. I would rather have somebody like linuxlabs sell these things but it may not be worth their while. I am only contemplating doing this as a way go get people going. I am well aware that people have a struggle to get going with linuxbios, it takes more knowledge than most people normally have, and my thought is that having a working board would make the end goal a bit more real. The thought would be to sell Matsonic MS7308E or similar mainboards with a pre-installed DoC with linuxbios burned on it and ready to mount /dev/hda1 as root. It would also come with a spare working DoC so you would have room to play. From there it's your problem. It would come to you as a boxed mainboard, with the DoC in place, and the regular BIOS in a little can in case you ever need it. CPU not included, memory not included, we could probably dish these out for not too much money. I was thinking that this is not really different than handing out T-shirts or CDROMs, both of which we do now. I will have to work out the bureaucratic nonsense from the lab side (there's always someone who can give you a reason for NOT doing something) but I think that might be doable. Any comments or interest? ron
