[Ham-Computers] Sick 'Pooter'

[gil kowols]

|
|Gene wrote:
|> I have a machine with a problem that I have NEVER run into before:
|>
|> Have re-formatted HDD several times using either Maxtor install disk or
|> Windows (fdisk, sys, etc.) and every time I try to install ANY version of
|> Widows (95 to XP) it starts the install ok and then goes into
|"Copying files
|> needed for windows setup and then it quits! (Locks up)
|>
|> The machine will boot normally to the C drive and a dir shows command.com
|> io.sys, etc.
|> I can load any other DOS-based program, but not windows.
|>
|> I have held the family cat over the machine  (CAT SCAN) and have
|had the big
|> black family dog look it over several times (LAB TESTS) and
|still nothing.
|>
|> The machine appears to work OK except for the installation of windows.
|>
|> Any ideas?
|Hi Gene,
|
|Lemme guess, your dawg is a Labrador :)
|
|Personally I'd install SuSE Linux but you'd like to keep the old system
|until you are ready to switch.
|
|A couple of ideas come to mind to re-install Win, but 1 at a time:
|a) What command are you using to format the harddrive and how are you
|doing it ie off a bootfloppy or from the BIOS etc?
|
|73 de ZR1HPC
|Hylton
|--
|The Little Helper


I have been puzzling over 'pooters' since it appeared.  Finally did a google
and found this :

Organization: Open Software Foundation Research Institute, Grenoble

IO81409 at MAINE.MAINE.EDU (Ailsa N.T. Murphy) writes:
>well, since it's gone, i can now ask a really dumb question:
> what's a pooter?

I studied Science to intermediate level in secondary school, including
Biology. We had exactly one field trip in three years, into the school
grounds, where we were armed with Pooters. A Pooter is a small container
with two plastic tubes coming out of it. One of them is covered with gauze
on the end inside the container. The idea is that you suck through this one
while pointing the other one at various of God's Little Creatures, which
find themselves rudely transported into your container for future study. Of
course the two tubes look very much alike, and if you then suck through the
wrong one you get a mouthful of insects.

There's probably a moral.

But I'm not sure what this has to do with ham radio or computers???

gil, W9BUB