Sorry if this is out of synch! still catching up after the hackers! If it's a WindBlows Me system, there are patches to enable Real Mode Dos so you can boot to dos. I applied them and does allow you to boot to dos but now I have to manually issue a win to boot into WindBlows ME. I need to look at the msdos.sys to see if windblows boot is off and other annoyance is it makes this wakeup your bedpartner loud beep! when it starts and I could do without that even though I don't sleep with my computer! ha! Otherwise, it works if this what you're looking for. Amanda On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, John Covici wrote: > I have a similar system -- no isa slot, but I can run DOS just fine -- > although its not Windows 3.1. You probably should get another scanner > and you'd be ok with any SCSI or USB one which is supported by > whatever operating system you would like. The ocr is also much > better. > > > On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, Charles Hallenbeck wrote: > > > I am recovering from a catastrophic failure here, caused by an > > accumulation of cat hair in my fans and a runaway heating problem. I lost > > a power supply, a processor, and a motherboard. On the theory that every > > catastrophe is just a disguised opportunity, I upgraded my hardware rather > > than simply replacing it. I am now running an AMD Athlon processor at 1400 > > MHz with 256 MB ram instead of the 600 MHz Athlon with 64 MB ram I was > > previously using. > > > > That is the good news. > > > > The bad news is - while the old motherboard had an ISA slot, the new one > > does not. And while the old system ran DOS on a small partition, the new > > system will not run DOS. Attempting to run DOS causes the loader to switch > > to rerunning Linux, but when that happens Linux hangs up when about 90% > > through the boot process with no speech, no keyboard control, and no error > > messages left on the screen. > > -- > John Covici > covici at ccs.covici.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
