Bootstrapping fun

Mar 06, 2007 11:23

Today I set up a Compaq ProLiant DL320 to run Windows 2000. The installation CD wasn't able to access the SCSI disks, so I downloaded a driver CD and used that, only to find out that you can use the CD directly - instead you have to boot from it and create floppy drivers. I did that, only to find that the BIOS can't be flashed until you flick a ( Read more... )

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_lexx March 6 2007, 13:00:10 UTC
SPOD

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mattp March 6 2007, 13:21:02 UTC
And I get paid for it :-)

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_lexx March 6 2007, 13:34:53 UTC
That's good.

However we will not pay you any extra for telling us about it ;o)

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syllopsium March 6 2007, 13:29:12 UTC
last week, to add a customer driver to an XP installation

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megashrike March 6 2007, 13:37:30 UTC
last year to fix..a broken windows installation, then the floppy drive died hah

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mattp March 6 2007, 13:50:58 UTC
The fragility of floppys is shocking, though that said, CDs are a bit too.

I'm thinking I maybe should have posted this as a poll. Before today, it wasn't for about 6 months.

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tajasel March 6 2007, 14:42:43 UTC
When was the last time you used a floppy disk?

Five years ago, but I won't say why as I was being really rather naughty at the time.

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mattp March 6 2007, 14:47:16 UTC
I meant the last time you used one for its intended purpose :-)

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tajasel March 6 2007, 14:50:54 UTC
I was using it for transferring files - only they were files that I wasn't allowed access to *g*

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paul March 6 2007, 18:02:43 UTC
Yesterday believe it or not, making CD backups of some files held on floppy disks at work. The discs I had were last accessed March 2000.

Before that I can't remember the last time I used a floppy disk, I used a Zip disk in the first year of University to carry stuff on though, before the advent of cheap USB flash drives.

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