Re: [newbie] Boot error message

2003-06-25 Thread FemmeFatale
At 09:06 PM 6/23/2003 -0400, you wrote: snips Femme: Give me a call when the price drops to $10. That must include the necessary adapters and drivers to upgrade the various offsprings' collection of proprietary and two-guys-and-a-goat POS. (Ever try to find a BIOS upgrade for a TMC motherboard?)

Re: [newbie] Boot error message

2003-06-24 Thread Douglas Bainbridge
Never had much joy with LS120 drives - kept going out of alignment and then wouldn't read the 120MB disks or write to the floppies - Linux or Win. Ditched them after the second failure. DougB On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 18:33, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 23 Jun 2003 6:25 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote:

Re: [newbie] Boot error message

2003-06-24 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 23 Jun 2003 11:29 pm, ed tharp wrote: On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 13:25, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Monday 23 June 2003 05:15 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 23 Jun 2003 3:40 am, Carroll Grigsby wrote: Good news: Floppies are becoming extinct. According to the current Dell

Re: [newbie] Boot error message

2003-06-24 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 24 Jun 2003 10:50 am, Douglas Bainbridge wrote: Never had much joy with LS120 drives - kept going out of alignment and then wouldn't read the 120MB disks or write to the floppies - Linux or Win. Ditched them after the second failure. It's funny, isn't it, that whatever you talk

Re: [newbie] Boot error message

2003-06-23 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 23 Jun 2003 3:40 am, Carroll Grigsby wrote: Good news: Floppies are becoming extinct. According to the current Dell catalog, floppy drives are now extra-cost options! This may make sense in a corporate environment, but it strikes me that it is certainly going to complicate trouble

Re: [newbie] Boot error message

2003-06-23 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Monday 23 June 2003 05:15 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 23 Jun 2003 3:40 am, Carroll Grigsby wrote: Good news: Floppies are becoming extinct. According to the current Dell catalog, floppy drives are now extra-cost options! This may make sense in a corporate environment, but it strikes

Re: [newbie] Boot error message

2003-06-23 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 23 Jun 2003 6:25 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Monday 23 June 2003 05:15 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 23 Jun 2003 3:40 am, Carroll Grigsby wrote: Good news: Floppies are becoming extinct. According to the current Dell catalog, floppy drives are now extra-cost options!

Re: [newbie] Boot error message

2003-06-23 Thread FemmeFatale
At 06:33 PM 6/23/2003 +0100, you wrote: snips a rattlesnakes rattler! OHH! Ugly scenario: #2 Daughter buys floppy-less Dell. Something goes wrong. #2 Daughter calls Daddy for help. Daddy spends a lot of time just figuring how to get into the #$*! Dell so Daddy can use toolset while

Re: [newbie] Boot error message

2003-06-23 Thread Richard Urwin
On Monday 23 Jun 2003 8:59 pm, FemmeFatale wrote: Wake up OLD PEOPLE! Its called DISK ON KEY! HELLO?! USB keys? you know?? recognized as a floppy device by bioses now? ;D They're not old people unless they've compiled a *nix kernel to 8 inch floppy. (yes, I have, and for those who assume

Re: [newbie] Boot error message

2003-06-23 Thread ed tharp
On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 13:25, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Monday 23 June 2003 05:15 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 23 Jun 2003 3:40 am, Carroll Grigsby wrote: Good news: Floppies are becoming extinct. According to the current Dell catalog, floppy drives are now extra-cost options! This may

Re: [newbie] Boot error message

2003-06-23 Thread JoeHill
On Mon, 23 Jun 2003 22:32:56 +0100 Richard Urwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: They're not old people unless they've compiled a *nix kernel to 8 inch floppy. God, I haven't seen one of those since my mom took a computer course for work when I was 10. She used a Wang computer... I always thought

Re: [newbie] Boot error message

2003-06-23 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Monday 23 June 2003 03:59 pm, FemmeFatale wrote: At 06:33 PM 6/23/2003 +0100, you wrote: snips a rattlesnakes rattler! OHH! Ugly scenario: #2 Daughter buys floppy-less Dell. Something goes wrong. #2 Daughter calls Daddy for help. Daddy spends a lot of time just figuring

[newbie] Boot error message

2003-06-22 Thread Dennis Myers
I have googled and archived the www and not found a decent answer to the message I get on boot since I changed out my CDROM. Message is ; A: drive error F1 to continue . I hit F1 and the system boots up and both hda and hdc are there and both cdrw and cdrom work. I am puzzled about what

Re: [newbie] Boot error message

2003-06-22 Thread Graham Banks
Dennis Myers wrote: I have googled and archived the www and not found a decent answer to the message I get on boot since I changed out my CDROM. Message is ; A: drive error F1 to continue . I hit F1 and the system boots up and both hda and hdc are there and both cdrw and cdrom work. I am

Re: [newbie] Boot error message

2003-06-22 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Sunday 22 June 2003 07:04 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: I have googled and archived the www and not found a decent answer to the message I get on boot since I changed out my CDROM. Message is ; A: drive error F1 to continue . I hit F1 and the system boots up and both hda and hdc are there

Re: [newbie] Boot error message

2003-06-22 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 09:04, Dennis Myers wrote: I have googled and archived the www and not found a decent answer to the message I get on boot since I changed out my CDROM. Message is ; A: drive error F1 to continue . I hit F1 and the system boots up and both hda and hdc are there