Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4208 mails)

["C. Richard Matson" <goldfarm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat July 10 2004 9:53 am, jfweber@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> *** Reply to message from Patrick Shanahan <paka@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> on
> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 09:39:59 -0500***

> Apparenly  when you buy something from them you are never spupsosed to
> upgrade.. wierd.( she has xp on it, but doesn't want to connect to the
> internet... as she has had a lot of fun w/ all those virii.. well fun
> if you like torture!!.) We managed to get a 9.1 on it w/ lots of
> problems <sigh> Everything doesn't work yet. I made boot floppies and
> modules disks from Suse's dvd... and hope that some combination will
> let her install 9.1 pro ( I gave her the cd's ) ;)  I have a hunch it's
> either some weird proprietary setup or it could be just old hardware.
>
> oh yeah, boot from cd is first in her bios ... but something is
> stopping that from happening.. hence the floppies. shades of 7.2 ;)

Hi, have you tried booting from the second CD? It seems like it's more of a 
problem with the various CD formats. Rich

> nemo me impune lacessit
>
>
> it's just an afterthought; okay ? : Programmer for Ark. Experience in
> binary searches.

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C. Richard Matson