[Wizard] Finding a wizard

[Mike Fineberg]

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On 11/09/2003 at 4:55 PM Rob Morgan wrote:
>Is there anybody else in
>Perth, thats is selling them and how much are they?

I am currently looking at getting suppliers from over east.  I'll post when I find out more, but it should give us access to 300Mhz CPUs and 667Mhz VIA ones.  With Dual ethernet.

On 11/09/2003 at 5:21 PM Ed wrote:
>How have people gone about installing a different OS to the one one
>there.  Not being real linux savvy I haven't really worked out how to do
>it yet.  Was going to put isos of RH9 on one partition and add the disk
>install kernal to lilo so I have the option of booting to this but...
>A) I don't know how to modify lilo to allow me to do this properly, and
>B) I don't know how to work out what partition on the existing setup I
>can use to store the isos.
>
>Any help would be great (or maybe a cable to attach a floppy?)

I've installed Win98SE & DOS on mine.  I borrowed a friend's 3.5"->2.5" HDD adapter, plugged it into another computer, fdisk'd, fdisk/mbr'd, formatted, copied the CAB files for Win98SE, copied misc drivers, then installed Windows. (mostly so I could easily use the networking)

If you don't have network drivers/cables, etc. It shouldn't be too hard to boot into dos,  install LapLink (or one of the better varients) and use a null-modem cable or parallel cable to send the data...

On 11/09/2003 at 5:22 PM Harry McNally wrote:
>Hi Rob
>As much as I know, Netway bought (or offered to dispose of) the Wizards
>as a job lot, I heard 1000 units but don't quote me. 

According to Philip (the main Netway who is handling the Wizards), they did buy 1000 units, and when I bought mine, they had sold 360+ (or was it.. they had sold 600+ hmm...) [this was 2 weeks ago.]

On 11/09/2003 at 5:24 PM Ed wrote:
>That would be cool.  I'd be interested to see what people have done
>about increasing the number of ethernet ports on them.  The PC/104
>option just seems way to expensive ($259 ex tax for a 3 port card!!) and
>USB can be a pain.

Most all 'newer' PC104 cards have dual ethernet chips (still Realtek 8139C chips).