Hard drive wiped, I set about recovering a
semblance of my previous
home computer. This is not as
tragic as you
might think: I have a second
machine, my
file server with all the
drivers I need ,
humming away next to me. I am aiming for NT server, but the file server has no floppy drive so I can't make a boot disk. The
NT Server CD isn't bootable (part of
Backoffice), but
NT Workstation is, so I install Workstation, and then install Server on top of that. The
NIC installs smoothly, the video card is fine, and now I'm up to the scary part: the
modem, which has given me
conniptions in the past, and I'm
not sure which of the 5 different driver sets is
appropriate for it. I
stumble on the correct drivers, nothing is irrecoverably
screwed up in the
registry, but now my
ISP does not
answer the phone. How am I supposed to know if I set up
TCP/IP and
RAS correctly?
Lunch with Kelly at
the Pub. She gives me cigarettes, bringing my total smoked to 3 for today.
"Goodnight Wesley, sleep well, I'll probably kill you in the morning."