Hi Amanda - Nope, no winblows here. It turns out I had two problems - the people who put my new motherboard and processor in for me left me with an inconvenient boot sequence, so I could not boot from a floppy, and my DOS installation was trying to load a driver for a card that had been pulled; the driver went ballistic and caused a general protection error. I fixed it by repairing my boot sequence, booting DOS from a floppy, and remarking out the driver line in config.sys. My system is a dual boot DOS+Linux system. Chuck On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, Amanda Lee wrote: > 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 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > Visit me at http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh The Moon is Waning Crescent (4% of Full)
