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Clue-by-four needed. by wheresthefish 2002-03-18 11:44:16
I was having trouble yesterday getting an old ISA NE2000 card working in my linux box. Basically I couln't persuade it to tell me what the I/O base and IRQ were set to, so this evening I gave up and decided to use the DOS config tool to divine the settings. Figuring "I need a DOS boot disk", I trolled through my floppy collection, but the only candidate I came up with was labelled "Win98 startup". I booted from this.

As you can probably guess, the disk was the Win98 Install floppy, and it proceeded to trample all over my partitions. Linux is now U/S, so I'm reinstalling.

Lesson for the day: Label disks correctly.
[ Reply ]
  my condolences (n/t) by ellyssian2002-03-18 11:45:27
  Windows 1, Linux 0. ;) (n/t) by nin_man2002-03-18 11:51:23
    well by crazysteve2002-03-18 11:52:59
      Go, team, go! :D (n/t) by nin_man2002-03-18 12:09:19
        may your bottled water by crazysteve2002-03-18 13:58:28
          As long as Jose Cuervo bottles it... (n/t) by nin_man2002-03-18 14:09:27
            So long as he can keep the invertebrates out. (n/t) by wheresthefish2002-03-18 15:36:59
  The evil imperium strikes back! ;o) (n/t) by Apfel2002-03-18 11:51:50
  I'm a little confused by Egaeus2002-03-18 12:21:26
    As did I. by wheresthefish2002-03-18 12:28:07
      Interesting by Egaeus2002-03-18 12:30:22
        Not sure it was deliberate... by wheresthefish2002-03-18 12:32:42
          It's always deliberate by Egaeus2002-03-18 12:52:30
            but by crazysteve2002-03-18 14:06:32
              No it didn't by slamlander2006-11-19 12:55:59
        Put there to kill OS/2, not Linux. (n/t) by slamlander2002-03-18 14:35:08
          And QNX. by wheresthefish2002-03-18 15:35:58
          I wouldn't doubt it by Egaeus2002-03-18 20:42:38
    It might not be too late... by smcv2002-03-18 14:56:30
      It's definately too late... by wheresthefish2002-03-18 15:34:53
        erm... by SD Maruko-kun2002-03-18 18:08:08
  **THWACK** by mr.coffee2002-03-18 12:34:48
    OW! by wheresthefish2002-03-18 12:36:46
      stop hitting me! by crazysteve2002-03-18 14:05:43
  Shouldn't it at least ask for confirmation? (n/t) by mwq2002-03-19 03:58:07

 

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