Linux friendly hardware guy?

[Peter Hiscocks]

If you are just buying and replacing a power supply, you can do that without
the blessing of a Linux Guru. My advice would be to get the best possible
supply you can afford. A crummy one can go into Frankenstein mode and  take
out every last piece of hardware in the box, as I discovered to my sorrow.

Peter


On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 01:26:30PM +0000, Rob Sutherland wrote:
> Robert Brockway writes: 
> 
> >
> >If the original poster is confortable with the shell and doesn't need a 
> >GUI, passing "knoppix 2" [1] to the bootloader boots without a GUI (at 
> >least it has with all the version of Knoppix I've done this with). 
> >
> >[1] Ie, passing run level 2 to the kernel.
> 
> Yep, tried that...actually, I've tried knoppix, suse, berry, the linux 
> rescue option on the centos install cds and tomsrtbt. Results vary, at 
> times I can boot up, other times it dies at different points. From what 
> I've read over the last couple of days and a few responses on the list, it 
> seems this is pretty consistent with a failing power supply, so I'm just 
> going to get a replacement and stick it in there. Which brings me back to 
> what I was was originally asking about - can anyone recommend a linux 
> friendly hardware guy in the downtown area? 
> 
> Rob 
> 
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Peter D. Hiscocks                         	   
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