From: Jonathan Berry (jberry_at_islandnet.com)
Date: Fri Aug 02 2002 - 03:39:47 EDT
In article <000c01c239ec$ea9e4060$1f3ffea9_at_foo>,
"David Ross" <ross_at_math.hawaii.edu> wrote:
>> guess because no OS is loaded). And on. But so far it doesn't
>> boot. Just a blinking underline in the top left corner. Can
>> somebody give me a pointer about what I've done wrong?
>
>I think you're going to have to treat this as a pure, unformatted HD and start from scratch.
>
>Go to www.bootdisk.com, and get a boot floppy image for a recent version of DOS - I suggest MS-DOS 6.0.
>Boot from the floppy, then go through the usual FDISK (for partitioning), Format C: /S, transfer the system with sys C:, etc.
I guess I'll have to borrow the floppy drive back from one of
my 701C users.
>
>> DR-DOS system? SYS J: would not work.
>
>J?
It was J: on my Win95 system in the PCMCIA slot.
I have a good reason to use DR-DOS 5. Is there a reason
why an older DOS wouldn't work on a 701C, or is it just "good
practice" to use something newish?
Thank you!
-- cheers Jonathan Berry http://www.islandnet.com/~jberry/ to know more than you want
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