Re: [SLUG] Try THIS with M$ operating systems

[Sridhar Dhanapalan <sridhar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 01 May 2006 22:03, James Gray <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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 ;)

The retail version of Windows would probably force you to reregister with 
Microsoft, which can be a lengthy and painful process.

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