[Wolves] Now a Linux question

Kevan kevanf1 at yahoo.co.uk
Tue Sep 28 14:37:29 BST 2004


 --- Peter Cannon <peter at cannon-linux.freeserve.co.uk>
wrote: 
> On Monday 27 Sep 2004 18:08, The wise and
> knowledgeable Kevan proclaimed:
> 
> > Yes... on both PC's.  The newer PC - Gigabyte
> > 7VAXP-A-Ultra with a 2500 Athlon Barton and 512mb
> -
> > has a DVD drive and a CD writer on IDE channel 2 -
> 1
> > on Linux.  I at first thought that it might be due
> to
> > the onboard RAID which I have configured purely as
> a
> > couple of extra IDE channels.  So, I literally
> pulled
> > the plug on those drives.  No difference.  Then I
> > tried it on the old PC and it still came up with
> hde.
> > The really annoying thing is that SuSE will not
> > install at all on the newer PC.  It tries but
> stalls
> > at the first hurdle.  For this I suspect it
> doesn't
> > like the NVidia graphics card.
> 
> Tell you what, bring one machine round to my office
> and we'll have a go. 
> (my god Dick Turpin will have a fit keep doing these
> freebies)
> 
> -- 
> 
> Regards
> 
> Peter Cannon
> 
> peter at cannon-linux.freeserve.co.uk
> 
> "There is every excuse for not knowing!"
> "But there is no excuse for not asking!"
> 

Actually I did drive up Union Street this
morning....but I couldn't find you.  Is there a sign
up or anything?  Or is just the number of the place. 
It was to have been a flying visit just to say hi :-)
I'd been onto the Walsall Rd to pick up some new
CD-RW's from that big computer place by Honda.

Kevan




	
	
		
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