| Bill Jonas on Mon, 3 Jun 2002 12:58:36 -0400 |
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On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 12:07:59PM -0400, Fred K Ollinger wrote: > I can't boot from floppy b/c it's busted and the replacement floppy > drive doesn't work. I seem to recall that Compaqs (older ones, anyway) use some sort of weird proprietary floppy drive on the IDE bus. > cdrom is out as this thing can't el torito--compaq idiots! Depending on how old it is, the El Torito standard may not have existed when this thing was made. If you decide you want to/have to spend money, you might not want to dump it into this machine. Wal-mart sells PCs without an OS so you don't have to pay the Microsoft tax. And all the hardware in these works with Linux. Original story: http://newsforge.com/newsforge/02/04/29/0218241.shtml?tid=7 Follow-up where it mentions them replacing the winmodems with real hardware modems: http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/05/02/1514240&mode=thread&tid=7 Link to Wal-mart page selling these (price range is $400-800, ranging from 1GHz Duron or Celeron with 128MB RAM to high-end Athlon XP with 512MB RAM or high-end Pentium 4 with 256MB RAM, with 40GB hard disk): http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product_listing.gsp?cat=86798&dept=3944&path=0%3A3944%3A3951%3A41937%3A86796%3A86798&bti=0&sb=61 I heard somewhere that these are only available on the web site, not in the stores. -- Bill Jonas * bill@billjonas.com * http://www.billjonas.com/ "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin Attachment:
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