Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 02:31:11 -0800 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Doug Young" <dougy@bryden.apana.org.au>, "Josh Paetzel" <jpaetzel@hutchtel.net>, <AMDMCG@aol.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: HeLP!!! i am trying to install bsd linux and it wont install or give me e... Message-ID: <001e01c0a23a$bbf56b80$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <041b01c0a235$e5ac13c0$847e03cb@apana.org.au>
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>-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Doug Young >Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2001 1:56 AM >To: Ted Mittelstaedt; Josh Paetzel; AMDMCG@aol.com; >freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: Re: HeLP!!! i am trying to install bsd linux and it wont >install or give me e... > > > >> >Where did a 2x CD drive come from ?? ..... sounds like someone raided a >> >museum !!!!! >> >> >> >> No, probably took it from my basement when I wasn't looking.. ;-) > >You mean you actually had a working one ?? ..... that was rare enough even >when >the things were fresh out of the original packaging let alone after ten >years or whatever >its been since those dinosaurs were in vogue !!!! > I dealt with those dumb things and their rotten non-standard narrow ribbon cables that got lost all the time for a while at Central Point Software, later Symantec, as like all software companies they were toy-buyers, and what hardware that the software developers bought and couldn't make work got tossed into the IT dungheap. (Often we could get it to work with patience, one thing I learned there was how impatient a lot of software developers are with touchy hardware) Generally whenever we needed a piece of hardware we found that it was easier to go into "the room" and extract it then to try and requisition anything. It was those drives that got me so disgusted with proprietary interface drives that I swore all SCSI drive purchases that I had anything to do with from then on would be SCSI. I did get burned once by buying an NEC CDR-25 which turned out to be SCSI-1, with the parity bit permanently switched off, but even today I still have CD drives that I bought nearly 10 years ago that move from older machine to older machine. >On another track .... have you any idea if anyone in OZ stocks your book ?? Borders does, they have a store in South Yarra in Melbourne, and one in Sydney. But, the publisher is extremely interested in finding out what the popular technical bookstores are in different areas, and if you send me one I'll pass it to their sales staff. >... >someone sent me a URL in yankeeland someplace with 40% discounts off >O'Reilly >publications but they didn't know about your one. > Yes, all the bookstores love O'Reilly because their animal books have excellent UNIX branding, and it's easier to order up a dozen of the top 10 bestsellers from their book line and say "Yes we stock UNIX books" than to actually have to put some thought into your stock selection. Oh well, at least O'Reilly has good quality, we could have done a lot worse. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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