Computer from Slack9 meeting raffle, Part 2

[technomage]

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ouch,
like I said at the meeting, its was something sitting on my bench.
some of the problems I had with a box or 2 involved the clunky multi-I/O 
video.. 
did this one have a video card in it or no?

as for the cpu falling out, I hadn't expected that one.
there is a bios on board, not sure about booting from the cd.
you may want to make sure the cables are tight on the cdrom. it may also be a 
bad cdrom unit.

I never did have time to fully test those boxes. they were taking up room and 
I got them for free anyway.

is there a way you can save off the errors and send them my way. I'll probably 
know whats up when i see the errors.

also, what part of town you in, I may be able to drop by and have a close up 
look-see.

Mage

On Thursday 17 April 2003 10:59 pm, David Huerta wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Myself and a few friends have been trying to get Linux installed on one
> of the computers given away at the last Eastside meeting.  We've
> experienced some major obstacles, such as the problems of the processor
> falling out its socket, the CD-ROM drive not being detected, etc, but
> what we have yet to be able to do is get the thing to boot from a CD.
> Its perfectly capable of booting from floppies, however, and we've been
> able to create a Knoppix boot floppy which works fine for a bit, but
> suddenly hits a snag after it probes for hardware, when it starts
> crashing and presents a shell limited to six commands.  I was able to
> get inside something that looked a little like BIOS at startup, however,
> it had no options for the boot sequence.  Any ideas on how to get
> Slackware installed on this box?
>
> /* David Huerta */

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