From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from d138.earth.sunset.net ([209.209.116.138] helo=sunset.net ident=root) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18YMap-0002oM-00 for ; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 03:38:44 -0500 Received: (from rreid@localhost) by sunset.net (8.11.4/8.11.4) id h0E8cpo04635 for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 00:38:51 -0800 From: "Ralph W. Reid" Message-Id: <200301140838.h0E8cpo04635@sunset.net> Subject: Re: where is everyone, To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 00:38:51 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20030112163313.GA1492@lnx2.holmesgrown.com> from "Steve Holmes" at Jan 12, 2003 09:33:21 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL3] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Steve Holmes staggered into view and mumbled: > . . . >Hey I discovered another great plus for linux over that other OS. >Several times recently I encountered a situation where the BIOS had >trouble auto detecting a drive. When booting with DOS/windows, it >simply hangs! when I boot with a linux boot disk, the machine comes up >fine and it can read all available drives without incident. Linux >doesn't need BIOS to read the drives apparently. I have a dual boot >system here that only boots linux now:)... My system was going to be a dual boot system until my old hard drive with the DOS stuff on it refused to spin up when I moved it from my older system into this one. I had only a little time to work with a sighted assistant, so I threw this system together without a master hard drive. I'm not sure what othre OS's would do with this mess, but with LINUX I boot from a floppy and run everything from the lone slave who hasno master. It seems to be working quite well like this, so I plan to leave it like it is indefinitely. -- Ralph. N6BNO. Wisdom comes from central processing, not from I/O. rreid@sunset.net http://personalweb.sunset.net/~rreid Opinions herein are either mine or they are flame bait. SECANT (x) = TAN (x) / COTAN (x)