The Internet is wunnerful...
Dec. 12th, 2001 01:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpDrew went and ordered DSL and I agreed to fund half of it if we can figure a way to share the service. Last night, his attempt to install a plain-vanilla NIC on his new Dell didn't work out so well, so I'm trying - having finished a first pass through the translation - to set up Galina's old Toshiba laptop with a new network card so we can use it, sorry old piece of Pentium-equipped, low-power consumption hardware that it is, as our link to the DSL world out there.
Installation goes well until - you guessed it - I get a message saying that a needed file on the Windows 98 2nd edition CD is missing, and would I, please, insert the Windows 98 2nd edition CD?
Yeah, that's right.
This, while showing me that the install procedure appears to have been wandering about somewhere on the machine's hard drive, which ought to be easily distinguishable from a CD, I would imagine.
But I'm not really a technical person.
The file I needed was pc100v2.sys and it was nowhere to be found on the Windows CD. I hit Google with just the name of the missing file and was immediately brought to a site (computergripes.com, which I bookmarked) that presented me with a well-written item that, after venting a bit of spleen in Microsoft's direction, revealed to me that the needed file was on the manufacturer's disk in the A: drive.
Installation complete.
* * * I finished the translation a little over an hour ago and am taking a short break to see if I can install the DSL, as well as to cool down and get a little "distance" from the work, as I have now to take the resulting 20,000 or so words and review them for grammar, spelling, completeness, etc.
For a guy who barely eked out 2800 words for all of yesterday, I screamed through a final few pages that weighed in with as many words in just under 4 hours.
We be SMO-kin'!
Cheers...
Installation goes well until - you guessed it - I get a message saying that a needed file on the Windows 98 2nd edition CD is missing, and would I, please, insert the Windows 98 2nd edition CD?
Yeah, that's right.
This, while showing me that the install procedure appears to have been wandering about somewhere on the machine's hard drive, which ought to be easily distinguishable from a CD, I would imagine.
But I'm not really a technical person.
The file I needed was pc100v2.sys and it was nowhere to be found on the Windows CD. I hit Google with just the name of the missing file and was immediately brought to a site (computergripes.com, which I bookmarked) that presented me with a well-written item that, after venting a bit of spleen in Microsoft's direction, revealed to me that the needed file was on the manufacturer's disk in the A: drive.
Installation complete.
For a guy who barely eked out 2800 words for all of yesterday, I screamed through a final few pages that weighed in with as many words in just under 4 hours.
We be SMO-kin'!
Cheers...
