[Techtalk] FreeBSD on ancient Pentium BIOS upgrade question

Conor Daly conor.daly-linuxchix at cod.homelinux.org
Fri Apr 7 07:30:11 EST 2006


On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 02:01:03PM -0400 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
Amanda Babcock Furrow thought:
> needed more disk space (was on 3.2 GB) so I can ignore my email for 3-6 
> months (baby coming!)  So I got a new 120GB disk.
 
> I've never messed with a BIOS before.  We don't have a budget for a new
> computer.  I have three weeks and about $50 to resolve this situation.

Would that budget stretch to an old computer?  I've no real idea what
you'd get a Pentium III for these days but you'd never know...

The real answer of course is to get Daddy-to-be to look after baby while
you keep on reading your email!...

Conor
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