Dennis Myers wrote: > > On Friday 16 November 2001 20:14, you wrote: > > Jon Dowd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > sent Friday, November 16, 2001 6:04 PM > > > > :Iomega has a site listing lots of BIOS entry key commands. > > > > Yes, it does. And the Dell site has the correct answer. > > > > http://support.dell.com/us/en/kb/document.asp?DN=1012573 > > > > > > Ken Marcy > So I didn't give up and finally the ctl>alt>enter worked, got into the bios > and looked around then, Just to see if the cdrom would work since it only > had one IDE channel, I stuck in a windows 98 boot disk and did a fdisk and > then booted to install windows 98. Lo and behold the durn thing installed 98 > on a 400MB hard drive with 16MB ram and an old 486 66mhz processor. Took two > hours. I didn't think that was supposed to work. It is slow but leads me to > believe that I can install a small linux OS on it now. Well, maybe I will > just leave it to be used by the grandkids. Thanks again for all the help, I > don't like throwing things out if they can still function or have a purpose. > -- > Dennis M.
Dennis: One of the 486-friendly linux versions is an excellent idea. After all, they're kids, so they're very good at learning new things -- it's their job and they work very hard at it. Regards, Carroll
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