Re: [Sheflug] BlueYonder

[Craig Andrews <nospam [at] fishbot.org.uk>]

Well, I phoned them. I told them I don't even have a windows disk, never
mind license, or HDD to put it on. They said 'we can't do it on anything
other than windows. Either you can borrow a copy or upgrade <HA!> your
machine to Windows ME'

Why would I do that? Wonder if a VMWare install would fool 'em (theres an
idea!)

Craig Andrews
craig@fishbot.org.uk

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On Sun, 25 Feb 2001, Craig Andrews wrote:

> And hence the problem. I will have to nick a HDD and a windows disk from
> somewhere. Or I might phone them up, make sure I get a soft salesperson,
> and tell them if they don't install it anyway, they can stick it and they
> lose a customer. Don't think that'll work though.
> 
> I am stumped at the system requirements. As far as I can tell, the only
> real requirement is for a working NIC with 10BaseT connection. The
> requirements list they provide is scarily similar to that of IE5.5. Hmmm,
> coincidence? I think not...
> 
> So, I'll have a word with them, because the machine it will be going into
> will be a p100 running a stripped down SuSE 7.0. not quite up to their
> standards, so if they install it in my 'suitable' desktop machine, I'll
> only rip it out the second he gets out of the door.
> 
> <hatred-mode level="severe">
> AAAAAARGH! WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY THIS DEPENDENCY ON M$? It's all the
> tech's know, they say. THEY HAD TO LEARN WINDOWS AT SOME POINT! You aren't
> born with that knowledge (unless you mix Windoze and the human genome. No,
> don't even go there!) If I stick it on the end of my network card,
> configured for DHCP, and get something back from it, shouldn't that do?
> </hatred-mode>
> 
> Anyway, I'm going to lie down for a bit...
> 
> Craig Andrews
> craig [at] fishbot.org.uk
> 
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> 
> On Sun, 25 Feb 2001, Chris J/#6 wrote:
> 
> > 
> > > I know this is going backwards a bit, but has anyone actually got
> > > BlueYonder cablemodem service on a Linux box? And if so, did you have to
> > > pretend to run windows to get them to install it?
> > > 
> > > Cheers
> > > 
> > > Craig Andrews
> > > craig [at] fishbot.org.uk
> > > 
> > 
> > Blue Yonder runs fine on Linux - all you need is a linux supported net card, 
> > and a DHCP client, like dhclient (in the dhcpd package from ISC) or pump 
> > (which is what redhat use, and I've read reports of people saying pump is not 
> > very good compared to dhclient...personally, I don't know :)
> > 
> > >From reading uk.telecom.broadband, you need Win<XX> running as they install 
> > drivers and stuff and test the installation before leaving. After that, you 
> > can boot back into Linux if you desire and run dhclient on eth<X> to get 
> > Linux online.
> > 
> > There are reports that you /may/ be able to sign off the installation as 
> > complete without the bod doing owt to your machine if you ask them. But then 
> > if it doesn't work, you have no comeback as you signed the form saying 
> > everything went okay.
> > 
> > I'd say deja for BlueYonder in uk.telecom.broadband, but since Google bought 
> > Deja's news service, the search engine is really bad for news as Google have 
> > dropped things like Deja's power search on the grounds that it would "cost 
> > too much to maintain".
> > 
> > Chris...
> > 
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