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Thinking no news was good news, I rebooted the box and wasn't too happy to see BIOS VERSION: A02 on the screen. Oh joy!īooted FreeDOS, and with the floppy in the drive, typed:Ī:\> B:GX270A07.EXE Nothing happened. I finally wrote the A07 file onto a floppy, and burned a FreeDOS CD. I actually have a few of these lying around, and my not-so-trusty GX270 even has a floppy drive! Yippee!īut though I found several disks lying around, they mostly seem to hate the GX270's disk drive. (Smart-alecks out there may refrain from suggesting I write an ext2-to-FAT shim for FreeDOS.) I thought, OK, I'll put it on a floppy disk. How do I get it to run GX270A07.EXE? I mean, I downloaded it to an ext2 or maybe a reiserfs filesystem, which DOS manifestly doesn't grok. Suppose I burn the CD image onto a CD-R and run it in "live CD" mode. The good news though was that this could be run under DOS, for example FreeDOS. I really (I mean really) don't do windows on this box. But I had a problem: you're supposed to run this under ’doze :( Now I have a partition on the HDD marked HPFS/NTFS, but of course it has an ext2 filesystem on it.
#Dell optiplex gx270 cd rom not installed upgrade
No-Windows BIOS upgrade procedure Careful observation during bootup told me that the GX270 was running the ancient A02 BIOS (short for April 2002?) the latest (and therefore greatest?) seems to be A07. That was easier than updating the BIOS, which I tried next.
#Dell optiplex gx270 cd rom not installed driver
Is it a driver issue? I tried replacing "intel" (with quotes) by "fbdev" in nf - got no graphics at all. The NFS, printing, and sound were not a real huge issue, but having the box freeze (keyboard and mouse have no effect - I mean NumLock doesn't even toggle the LED ctrl-alt-backspace, ctrl-alt-f1, all useless - can ping, can't ssh in) is quite frustrating.
#Dell optiplex gx270 cd rom not installed install
Therefore, I thought I'd install the latest stable opensuse distro, which was a lot harder than it should have been. Not to mention the scorn heaped upon my computer by the ex-teen's Penguinista friend.
The old Dell was running a four-year-old OS (SUSE Linux 9.3 Professional), which had its issues (couldn't run flash10, can't order printing online from, can't run ffox3). I'm getting too old for these sysadmin challenges at home. I've been saying for several days now that the next computer I buy will be a Mac mini or something of its ilk.
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