Re: [SLUG] Detective skills - weird HDD problem

[Mehmet Ozdemir <mehmeto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

luke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> The other day I mailed out about the new PC I'd happily installed RH7.1
> on, in a 4-IDE controller motherboard with 2 ATA100 drives and 2 older
> EIDE drives, and how I managed to get it booting off drives past the
> 1st 2.
>
> Optus Cable is due tomorrow arvo to install a cable modem - this is the
> reason that I bought a copy of Windows 98 for the new machine.  :-(
Luke,

If you only need win98 to get the optus cable done, don't even bother 
poluting your hdd with it. You can get @home installed without it, just 
use a bit of social engineering.
When I had @home installed I didn't let the tech touch my computer.

Here are some tips. When the installer turns up, tell him that:

- The computers broken and you'll install the software later.
- Say you've had optus cable before and you know how to do it. (software 
that is)
- You could say your working on very sensitive work stuff under an NDA 
and you cannot let him have access to the machine.
- Put a bios password on and tell your spouse/mum/dad has the password 
etc etc.
- If all fails just slip him a 20, a 6 pack etc etc.

At the end of the day all he cares about is getting the install done and 
your signature on the work order.

Then once he's gone spend a total of 20 secs setting up linux to connect 
to @home.

Mehmet Ozdemir