On Monday 01 May 2006 22:03, James Gray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a Prosignia 200 at work that now refuses to boot from CDROM. It > threw a hard drive over the weekend so the secondary DNS server went > "bye-byes". > > So after much battling, BIOS flashing and general mucking around, I decided > to just get the new drive, throw it in a spare PC (some nameless, faceless > clone thing with COMPLETELY different hardware to the Prosignia - beyond an > IA32 CPU it may as well have been Commodore64!!). I installed RHEL4, > patched it, did the basic configuration and I was done. > > Now the big test - put it back in the Prosignia and see what happens. Well > it booted, noticed a few devices had disappeared, and a few others > "appeared". It reset my network configuration, sorted out the X server and > re-jigged the rest so it was happy again. One more boot for good measure > and VOILA! Completely functional, stable server again :) > > Now try THAT with Windows ;)
The retail version of Windows would probably force you to reregister with Microsoft, which can be a lengthy and painful process. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] {GnuPG/OpenPGP: http://dhanapalan.webhop.net/yama.asc 0x049D38B4 : A7A9 8A02 78CB AB1B FCE4 EEC6 2DD9 249B 049D 38B4} "Nothing would please me more than being able to hire ten programmers and deluge the hobby market with good software." - Bill Gates, 'An Open Letter to Hobbyists', 1976-02-03
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