[frgeek-michiana] Fwd: WipeFest

I asked Craig to send me the specs on the video and nic subsystems before wiping the drives. Here is his reply.

  "The video card used in most of the boxes is a Compaq QVision
   2000/2000+ (MGA). The nic is an AMD PCNET Family Ethernet
   Adapter (PCI&ISA)."

Most (all?) of these boxes are apparently Compaqs. When the drive is wiped so is part of the bios. We may not be able to get to the bios to check or change settings without ordering restore disks.

Also, this particular video subsystem is not well supported in GNU/Linux. Whoever has recent Knoppix disks, please bring them to lab Tues. We'll see if Knoppix can detect the vid chip (Matrox?) and configure an X server for us. Same for nic.

Tom

Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2004 21:03:12 -0500
To: FreeGeek Michiana <frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: Tom Brown <tbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [frgeek-michiana] WipeFest

Craig Youngs, from ND Federal Credit Union, called today to prepare for WipeFest One. The task has fallen on Craig's desk to securely scrub the donated boxes before we get them. WipeFest One will be held at a NDFCU branch office (Edison & Main) in the computer training lab. We'll scrub down 6-8 units in each 2-3 hour Fest. Don't know when the WipeFest One will occur -- Craig will call me.

Tom




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