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- From: affie@earley.sns.neuphilologie.uni-tuebingen.de (Ralf "Affie" Hauser)
- Subject: Re: new Tseng4000 drivers blew up my system...
- Message-ID: <1992Sep15.090643.27369@softserv.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de>
- Sender: affie@earley (Ralf "Affie" Hauser)
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- References: <1992Sep9.115226.27181@softserv.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de> <sJiXqB2w165w@folly.welly.gen.nz>
- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 09:06:43 GMT
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- In article <sJiXqB2w165w@folly.welly.gen.nz>, andrew@folly.welly.gen.nz (Andrew McMillan) writes:
- |>
- |> (...) it might be OK to include the a: drive at the
- |> beginning of your 'LIBPATH' and then put a floppy in during bootup
- |> containing the drivers to be tested.
- |>
- |> I've tried this here, and it worked fine when I was testing the Tseng
- |> 4000 drivers on my system. It's important to have a blank floppy too
- |> though, as the system insists on searching that drive a lot during
- |> boot (not surprising, really!), and eventually gets stuck.
- |>
- |> (...)
- |>
- |> Andrew McMillan, I "I am but a living ganglion of irreconcilable
- |> andrew@folly.welly.gen.nz I antagonisms."
- |> New Zealand I -- Gilbert & Sullivan, HMS Pinafore.
-
- You are clever guy, Andrew!!!
-
- This is really a smart trick!
- I guess nobody should have problems with new drivers any longer by using this
- method!
- Thanks a lot!
-
- affie.
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