A moment of silence, please...
Jun. 4th, 2001 12:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpI finally found the restore disk for the Compaq. It was - surprise! - in among the rest of my "install" CDs. So now, there is no excuse for not reverting the Compaq back to the Windows 98 operating system it came into this world loaded with.
That means that the Linux system that's there is a goner... the restore disk doesn't understand anything but "reformat and reinstall."
It's a good thing I backed up the important files from that machine... but it's going to be a while before I can reinstall anything since hardware is getting a bit scarce around here. Then again, it's not as though I'm connected to my local ISP through a dedicated machine anymore, so I might take the important files off of my etower-333CS and then install FreeBSD on top of the Mandrake distro that's sitting there, and let that be my *nix box.
Decisions...decisions... At least one is not hard, and that's the one about going to bed. I think I'll let the Compaq go on autopilot and do any required keyboard work on the system tomorrow.
Cheers...
That means that the Linux system that's there is a goner... the restore disk doesn't understand anything but "reformat and reinstall."
It's a good thing I backed up the important files from that machine... but it's going to be a while before I can reinstall anything since hardware is getting a bit scarce around here. Then again, it's not as though I'm connected to my local ISP through a dedicated machine anymore, so I might take the important files off of my etower-333CS and then install FreeBSD on top of the Mandrake distro that's sitting there, and let that be my *nix box.
Decisions...decisions... At least one is not hard, and that's the one about going to bed. I think I'll let the Compaq go on autopilot and do any required keyboard work on the system tomorrow.
Cheers...
