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> > > Why wast your time with floppies? Boot from a USB stick that has |
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> > > plenty of storage on it for kernels and drivers. |
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> > Bios doesn't support it :( |
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> So was this machine manufactured 10 years ago or are you *that* good |
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> in choosing crappy hardware? |
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I regular y excel in choosing crappy hardware :-; |
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However, the board does date back to 2004, don't know when it was first |
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released though. |
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The bord/bios is actually supposed to boot off sata, just for that to |
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work I need to set the controller to non-raid mode in the bios. |
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Doing that upsets my WinXP install, which is also a non-option. |
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So basically I'm stuck with the 'via floppy' method, which is nice, |
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reminds me of the 'good old times' ;) |
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Tom |
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