On Mon, 17 Feb 1997, Olly Betts wrote:
> 
> * Make sure you don't dislodge the metal clips holding in the floppy and
>   existing hard drives.  I knocked off the floppy one and as a result
>   trashed a floppy trying to write a rootdisk with a vibrating drive.

  Now that's interresting.

  My floppy is screwed into place and also came with a metal clip over 
the top.  I took the metal clip off to hold down my second internal HD 
(two years ago) and have never had any problems with either rhe floppy or 
HD drive in desktop or tower modes.

> * I can't boot into 800x600 (which my monitor can certainly cope with) or
>   1024x768 (which I think works).  640x480 works OK.  What I get it the
>   higher resolution modes is the character set wrapped round about half a
>   character + random coloured garbage at the bottom of the screen.  I
>   managed to set up my partitions like this (before discovering 640x480
>   worked) so it looks like just the display is corrupted.

  The kernels on the FTP site are compiled with a AKF65 MDF (I think) and 
it has to use a mode from this on bootup.  Once the mechine has booted a 
mode can be selected from /etc/monitor.conf using the setdisplay command 
(I think that's what it's called nowadays). /etc/monitor.conf should be 
the same (more or less) mdf file that you use for RiscOS.

  Maybe that's is your problem?

> BTW, I've set up a searchable index of the mailing list archive (since I

  Now that's an excellent idea.  I'll have to check it out!

Ale.