Re: [newbie] Installed SuSE yesterday
Alan, I don't understand your problem with Carol.She actually did post the specs on her monitor at one point--I remember seeing them. She's a newbie to Linux, just like others on this list. There are plenty of obfuscatory descriptions on this list. I've never seen you complain to the rest of the list about it before. It would be nice if you kept things a little less accusatory. Unsubscribing as well, before I bore Alan with fuzzy descriptions of my perpetual modem troubles Kathleen
Re: [newbie] LILO and modem issues
I do have the Boot Magic provided on disk 3 of Mandrake 7. Maybe I will try that first, and then just do an upgrade rather than a full install. Really, what else is it for but to tinker around with. It's not like I have much Stuff Of Importance on either hard drive yet, since the PC is a grand total of about 3 weeks old. Thanks to you all! What a terrific group of folks to have available! Kathleen
Re: [newbie] OT--BIOS
John wrote: The BIOS is on the mother board itself and is coded on to the BIOS chip. Without it Intel systems don't run since it loads the initial boot up program from the MBR. Win/DOS also has a software "BIOS" as well, one of a pair of hidden system files that DOS (and OS/2, Win9* and NT 3*) requires. The NT versions used to be the MS OS/2 versions. I don't know whether that has changed or not. Disclaimer: i was pretty much joking about the BIOS thing. I actually really like my BIOS (ambios). A friend of mine has a really cruddy BIOS, but the computer is a machine is a Hewlett Packard, so it is a cruddy system in general. I suppose a person would have to buy a whole new motherboard to get a different kind of BIOS. Can a person upgrade using the same motherboard, but maybe a different version or something? Thanks, Kathleen
