Re: OT (sorta) Removing Linux

2002-09-25 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Neal Richardson hath spake thusly: > I have swapped out motherboards using windows me and after several ok > like 10 reboots it did in fact work fine. I've done this with win98 as well, but with varying success. It /usually/

Re: OT (sorta) Removing Linux

2002-09-25 Thread bscott
On 25 Sep 2002, at 3:35pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have swapped out motherboards using windows me and after several ok like > 10 reboots it did in fact work fine. The system will run. However, the device tree in the registry will be invalid. Or so claimed MS PSS. Remember, MS-Windows is

Re: OT (sorta) Removing Linux

2002-09-25 Thread Neal Richardson
I have swapped out motherboards using windows me and after several ok like 10 reboots it did in fact work fine. -Neal Richardson On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 15:29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, at 3:05pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > BTW, for small money you can pick up a 3.5 to 2.5

Re: OT (sorta) Removing Linux

2002-09-25 Thread Hewitt Tech
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 3:29 PM Subject: Re: OT (sorta) Removing Linux > On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, at 3:05pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > BTW, for small money you can pick up a 3.5 to 2.5 hard driver adaptor. > > Yes. I paid about $12 for my 44-pin adapte

Re: OT (sorta) Removing Linux

2002-09-25 Thread bscott
On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, at 3:05pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > BTW, for small money you can pick up a 3.5 to 2.5 hard driver adaptor. Yes. I paid about $12 for my 44-pin adapter. :) > Then you can install Windows to the 2.5 drive setup as master on another > box. It is a much better idea to e

Re: OT (sorta) Removing Linux

2002-09-25 Thread Hewitt Tech
25, 2002 3:06 PM Subject: Re: OT (sorta) Removing Linux On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, at 2:38pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have to remove Linux and install Windows from a Dell Latitude LS laptop > that currently houses Red Hat 7 with grub as the boot loader. This > computer has no floppy or

Re: OT (sorta) Removing Linux

2002-09-25 Thread bscott
On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, at 2:38pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have to remove Linux and install Windows from a Dell Latitude LS laptop > that currently houses Red Hat 7 with grub as the boot loader. This > computer has no floppy or internal cdrom, just a pcmcia card with a Sony > Vaio cd player att

OT (sorta) Removing Linux

2002-09-25 Thread farinella
I have to remove Linux and install Windows from a Dell Latitude LS laptop that currently houses Red Hat 7 with grub as the boot loader. This computer has no floppy or internal cdrom, just a pcmcia card with a Sony Vaio cd player attached. The machine can't boot from this until the pcmcia modul