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James Fidell wrote: > Neil Stone wrote: > > >> It does have a floppy drive... but I'm having problems locating a floppy >> disk, and a floppy image... >> > > Hah! I have, sitting in my office, a twin 3GHz Xeon box with 3 x 70GB > 10k rpm SCSI drives, redundant PSUs and 4GB RAM. Would make a lovely > box for running Xen VMs on, thinks I. > > Unfortunately what it doesn't have is a BIOS. According to the beep > codes it's gone walkabout and I need to install a BIOS recovery > floppy. Finding a floppy, drive, cable and a windows machine (with a > floppy drive) to run the DOS binaries to create the recovery disk has > proved tricky. Shame the CR2032 battery on the motherboard is reading > 0.00V, too, especially since I don't have a spare lying about. > > James > > Ok it happens that I have 1 puter here with a floppy drive 2. various floppy cables (I think, i gave some to addshore a while back) 3. loads of floppy disks. 4. yeah and may have some spare cr2032 batteries I thought this stuff would come in useful one day. Are you at the meeting next week, or know someone that is, I can bring this stuff along, if it helps Paul -- Next meet - thursday 12th April 2007, Paignton Rugby club, 19:00 - 22:30 http://www.openoffice.org http://www.linux.org CHAT SERVICES http://www.serfer.co.uk - http://cgi.serfer.co.uk/ type #serfer then press login. PRFC CHAT ROOM - http://www.zleap.net/cgi-bin/irc.cgi Saturday 21st April 2007 - Devon Cup final - Paignton vs Torquay at Queens Park, Paignton, 3pm kick off. -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version 3.1 GIT d S: a C+++ UL++++ P+ L++ W++ N+ W--- O! V! PS+ Y! t+++ 5 X+++ R tv- b- DI! D++ G e H! r! z? -----END GEEK CODE BLOCK---- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html