Distributions - was Re: [plug] Red Hat 7

[Bret Busby]

Matt Kemner wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Bret Busby wrote:
> 
> > Anne works in Perth, during the daytime.
> 
> Is she able to swing past Hilton on her way home one night?
> (corner South St and Carrington St)

That's Fremantle. (miles away)

Anne sometimes goes onsite to a place in Osborne Park. Could she get a
copy from you at wasp, sometime?

> 
> > The problem is that, in a 486, the controller for the CD Drive, is
> > required to be a soundcard based one,
> 
> Why?
> being a 486 it has at least one IDE interface, right?
> One IDE interface can handle 2 devices - a master and a slave

Perhaps that's it; from memory, the 486 has a 1.1GB HDD, and a 454MB
HDD.
We keep Win 3.11 on it. (We need to)
Thus, it could be that both sockets are occupied.

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Bret Busby

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