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From: Simon Shapiro <shimon@simon-shapiro.org>
To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
Subject: Re: Installing
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Mike Smith, On 31-Oct-98 you wrote:

...

> > Any VGA card? Or this unavailable (to me) DEC creation?
>  
>  Any VGA card should do.  Make sure you plug a keyboard in too (or the 
>  SRM console will still use the serial console.
>  
>  I'm using a nasty ISA Cirrus card in one machine and a old S3 PCI card 
>  in another.  The SRM has x86 emulation built in so it can run the card 
>  BIOS (ick!).

Actually, this is good news, as the DPT boots itself with the BIOS.  The
new ones even have the DPTMGR (RIAD setup, etc.) running right there.

I'll try it in few minutes (got to wash my hands, been in the machine shop).

Simon


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