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Paul Sutton wrote: > James Fidell wrote: >> Neil Stone wrote: >> >> >>> It does have a floppy drive... but I'm having problems locating a floppy >>> disk, and a floppy image... >>> >> Hah! I have, sitting in my office, a twin 3GHz Xeon box with 3 x 70GB >> 10k rpm SCSI drives, redundant PSUs and 4GB RAM. Would make a lovely >> box for running Xen VMs on, thinks I. >> >> Unfortunately what it doesn't have is a BIOS. According to the beep >> codes it's gone walkabout and I need to install a BIOS recovery >> floppy. Finding a floppy, drive, cable and a windows machine (with a >> floppy drive) to run the DOS binaries to create the recovery disk has >> proved tricky. Shame the CR2032 battery on the motherboard is reading >> 0.00V, too, especially since I don't have a spare lying about. >> >> James >> >> > Ok it happens that I have > > 1 puter here with a floppy drive > 2. various floppy cables (I think, i gave some to addshore a while back) > 3. loads of floppy disks. > 4. yeah and may have some spare cr2032 batteries Thanks. Fortunately I have found everything I need now. It did mean resurrecting a ten year-old laptop with a dodgy power-connector to get the floppy written though. I shall play again later when I've run out of stuff to do that people pay me for. James -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html