Posts by Jason Kitchens

using elive on a toshiba p4, (thanks afb your addition is contagious...) and I want to upgrade to the 2.0 RC3. Is there a way to use apt-get to upgrade? I'm not sure how to install the tarball that mozilla provides, but with some...

Don't know if this will help any... I had the same problem with and old 400 mhz desktop. It would not boot dapper correctly, i think it might have made it one time. I received simillar buffer i/o errors, so I loaded breezy onto it and...

Ok, lets see. 1. Unbuntu dapper on: dell c640 P4 2.0ghz dual booting with xp pro. 2. " " " " on: systemax g732 p4 3.0ghz d/b with xp home. 3. Xubuntu dapper on: ancient K6-2 desktop started with...

The two fans on my 6810 are part of a heat sink. You should be able to at least get on of these somewhere, ebay if you have to... or if you can find a parts machine. Here's one on...

I havent delt with an ibm but check the boot order which i think you have already. Check the setings for the hard drive. See if the bios is seeing the hard drive correctly. Hope that helps.

Have you checked your bios settings?

That shouldn't change a thing. Only thing I can think of is a bios issue but that will usually just not allow you to boot from a cd. Do you have any other OS to try to load in? Like a linux distro or a 2000 cd? Have you used this xp cd...

Stupid question, but was the laptop working before? And what was the OS if it was?

Well, I researched as much as I could. It looks like the component that smoked was a smt cap, non polarized ceramic type. So I went to the local radiocr@p and bought a package of ceramic caps with leads, I just gussed at the value....

Ford has spec'd the toughbook cf 18 for the new IDS diagnostic platform.