[SlugBug] Re: Reminder - meeting tonight

[Lesley Binks]

slugbug-request at email-lists.org wrote:


> Gary Stimson wrote:
> 
> 
>>Eh-up,
>>
>>See you all at the meet tonight 7pm onwards at the Rutland Arms?
> 
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> Hope you all enjoy. I'm looking forward to the proposed regular Tuesday 
> meetings.
> 
> As luck would have it, Sheffield Wednesday are being Sheffield Tuesday 
> tonight (this shouldn't be happening!) so have a drink for me.
> 
> - Jonathan
> 

Oh well, .... and I could have done with a pint.  I hope that I can come 
along to the next one.

I could have done with a quick chat about this ...

Dell Latitude L400 PIII-700 Laptop

I am scraping the cash together to buy one of these with floppy drive 
and CD rom drive.

They are fairly old secondhand machines but I have been having a spot of 
bother with them.  The company I am buying from has been very good, 
replacing the complete unit when one wouldn't boot from hard disk, CD or 
floppy.

I am now at the stage where I have a working floppy but still no CD 
working and the company is sending out a replacement.

The CD drive is recognised, in both the BIOS and the minimal Win 98 
system but there is no way I can even get a directory listing of a known 
good disk, merely getting a CDR101 device not ready when reading error 
and the ubiquitous Abort, Retry Fail message.

I was wondering whether anyone had any experience to make about these 
machines and would care to comment?

I have already checked that they seem to cope with a redhat 7.x series 
install ( http://www.linux-laptop.net/dell.html ) and I have a Suse 7.3 
set of disk as well as a 8.2 set so I am confident that I will have a 
working system once the hardware problem is sorted out.

Regards

Lesley