[SLUG] Try THIS with M$ operating systems

[James Gray <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have a Prosignia 200 at work that now refuses to boot from CDROM.  It threw 
a hard drive over the weekend so the secondary DNS server went "bye-byes".

So after much battling, BIOS flashing and general mucking around, I decided to 
just get the new drive, throw it in a spare PC (some nameless, faceless clone 
thing with COMPLETELY different hardware to the Prosignia - beyond an IA32 
CPU it may as well have been Commodore64!!).  I installed RHEL4, patched it, 
did the basic configuration and I was done.

Now the big test - put it back in the Prosignia and see what happens.  Well it 
booted, noticed a few devices had disappeared, and a few others "appeared".  
It reset my network configuration, sorted out the X server and re-jigged the 
rest so it was happy again.  One more boot for good measure and VOILA! 
Completely functional, stable server again :)

Now try THAT with Windows ;)

(Sorry - had to gloat!)

Cheers,

James
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