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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 > I have a USB floppy drive, and spare CR2032 batteries... I'll swap you for the motherboard and CPUs... :-P -- 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