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18620	A question for enlightenment from anyone who knows about DOS _and_ Linux, and of what happens with the MBR; I didn't get much of that from the so-called Linux...	Heimo Claasen hammer@...	Aug 3, 2003 2:40 am
18621	Hiya Heimo! I'm not yet fully awake, so let me just give a quick summary of things relating to MBR and installing Linux that I've encountered. 1. The only real...	Bob George mailings02@...	Aug 3, 2003 4:58 pm
18622	Great thanks, Hal and Bob ! Indeed I still have the Norton book; regrettably, it's not verbose on precisely one salient point here - the location/address of...	Heimo Claasen hammer@...	Aug 4, 2003 3:10 am
18623	I thought I already knew about all the bootloading programs out there, having been keenly interested in multi-booting (having multiple OS's on my computer) a...	James Miller jamtat@...	Aug 7, 2003 2:13 pm
18624	Hi everyone, this is really off topic, but one never knows who may have a company idea. In one of my other lives, I am a development consultant working with...	karen lewellen klewellen@...	Aug 11, 2003 7:43 pm
18625	... I know of at least one credit bank in Las Vegas that used to dump 'em by the palette to non-profits etc. Sadly, I had to chide them for not properly wiping...	Bob George mailings02@...	Aug 11, 2003 8:09 pm
18626	Karen: You asked for ideas: Do you have any problems with new computers vs older SurvPCs, if the price were the same = a charitable donation with little or no...	John Oram norami@...	Aug 11, 2003 8:32 pm
18627	I have an old operating system on 5.25" floppies that I want to install on a PC that doesn't have a 5.25" drive, or a bay to install one. Is there any way I...	Robert C Wittig rwittig@...	Aug 12, 2003 8:07 pm
18628	Robert, Yes, there is. In a system having both kinds of drive, log onto the 5.25 inch disk (let's assume it's A:), place a 3.5 inch disk in the smaller drive...	Garry Hamilton kidrhino@...	Aug 13, 2003 12:29 am
18629	Hello Garry, Thanks!!! -wittig http://www.robertwittig.com/ -weblog http://radio.weblogs.com/0128450/ A business is as honest as its advertising. . Tuesday,...	Robert C Wittig rwittig@...	Aug 13, 2003 1:17 am
18630	I am hoping this is the proper place to ask. I was using a 486 Zenith with MS-DOS 3.3 until it stopped working today. When I turned it on, the only thing...	Sonya Carlson sbudach@...	Aug 13, 2003 8:05 pm
18631	... Hash: SHA1 ... It's kind of hard to give you more specific information since you haven't provided much information, but I'll do what I can. I assume you...	Jeffrey H. Johnson jeff@...	Aug 14, 2003 1:48 am
18632	... Hash: SHA1 ... Disk Copy Plus is another MS-DOS solution that works well. It's 10+ years old but still runs well on DOS and 2000/XP's NTVDM. ...	Jeffrey H. Johnson jeff@...	Aug 14, 2003 2:01 am
18633	On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 19:50:01 +0000 Sonya Carlson ... OK, I am going to guess that somehow the bios settings have been changed in the part that deals with...	Samuel W. Heywood sheywood@...	Aug 14, 2003 2:30 am
18634	... Dear Sonya, This is indeed the place to ask. It would appear that your computer no longer "believes" that the hard drive has valid data on it. This could...	Anthony J. Albert albert@...	Aug 14, 2003 9:42 pm
18635	If you do not care if the 3.5 disk has the format, usually less storage and you can get to a machine which has both a 3" and 5" drive you can do a diskcopy. [...	David Johnson djohnson@...	Aug 15, 2003 2:43 am
18636	... With a machine this old is is also possible that the BIOS has lost the hard drive parameters. This is usually due to the battery wearing out, but may be...	Robert Steimetz rob@...	Aug 15, 2003 1:30 pm
18637	... So far, everyone has provided good info that is applicable to this problem. But I'm surprised that no one mentioned a just- as-common cause (on an older...	John Tomany f4wcs@...	Aug 15, 2003 9:17 pm
18638	... Good suggestions; should have thought of this, myself, especially with the age of the machine mentioned. I'd certainly agree that this is a strong...	Anthony J. Albert albert@...	Aug 18, 2003 2:18 pm
18639	... Thank you all for your advise on how to fix my machine. It works now. I hit the "Esc" and got into the set up page. No hard drive was listed so I kept...	Sonya Carlson sbudach@...	Aug 19, 2003 2:41 am
18640	http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3154479.stm A VERY interesting article from the BBC about hidden data in documents. Important for all of us who deal...	Paul pavlik@...	Aug 19, 2003 3:45 pm
18641	... documents. ... It's always interesting to see how much "undo" information is stored in docs. I've received "small" documents over 3-4MB in size that...	Bob George mailings02@...	Aug 19, 2003 4:12 pm
18642	Hello Garry... and everyone else who made suggestions on this request for info... Just copying files onto a /sys boot disk does not work. The disk is then...	Robert C Wittig rwittig@...	Aug 21, 2003 1:25 pm
18643	Dear folks, I've got two notebook computers that I'm parting with. Cost is US$5 each, plus shipping (by your preferred method). Dell 325N - 386sx25 w/socketed...	Anthony J. Albert albert@...	Aug 26, 2003 10:07 pm
18644	Hi all, I have a bare bones computer system, and some assorted parts I would love to pass on to someone for free. Not interested in selling it, just hate to ...	karen lewellen klewellen@...	Aug 26, 2003 10:15 pm
18645	BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP. I am Dr. Benjamin Taylor a cousin to Charles Taylor liberian former President currentlly on exile in Nigeria where he has been granted...	Benjamin Taylor benjamintaylor@...	Sep 4, 2003 1:51 am
18646	Lately I wanted to check something with the DOSes I use ("OpenDOS" or DR-DOS 7, DR-DOS 7.2 and DR-DOS 7.3) and looked at the usual places: _Nothing_ to be...	Heimo Claasen hammer@...	Sep 7, 2003 1:48 pm
18647	... Hi there Heimo. Maybe just a bandwidth/space issue? Download links still present at www.drdos.net <http://www.drdos.net/download.htm>, and they seem to be...	Bjorn Simonsen bsng@...	Sep 7, 2003 8:17 pm
18648	I picked up at an auction for about .50 apiece some old 386 "luggable" computers. They have a handle built it and come in a carrying case, but are about 5 or...	James Miller jamtat@...	Sep 8, 2003 9:44 pm
18649	... The MMC (Memory Management Chip) is the crucial player in configuring memory. Some MMC can recognize some configurations of memory; others may not. ...	Anthony J. Albert albert@...	Sep 9, 2003 2:40 pm

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