Re: [slackware-alphadevel] identify my machine!

From: Chris Lumens (chris@slackware.com)
Date: Sun Jan 21 2001 - 12:49:51 PST


> Actually I am a complete retard... I know how you can tell...
> Remember when I sent you that message after I sent you that alpha...
> Whenever you are in doubt, make a fat floppy and put fwupdate.exe on it
> and run it, from the ARC... It will tell you the exact name of the file
> it's looking for....

It says "cannot find firmware image" and dumps me back at the
"update/reboot" menu thingy. Upon closer inspection of the floppy disk
that came with the computer, I discovered that it said:

   EB164.IMG (w/ MILO)

A clue?

-- 
Chris Lumens - chris@slackware.com - KG6CIH
@n=(-42,-85,-83,-19,65,2,-10,-10,-15,-3,2,-10,73,-4,8,-4,2,79,8,17,15,7,14,2);
print map{chr(-$n[$i++]+ord)} sort(split(//,'place random string here')),"\n";



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