[Ham-Computers] Need help with DOS

Mon, 29 Mar 2004 22:45:49 -0500

It is no mystery about the drivers being absent, anyone who knows DOS knows that
Brian.  Maybe you should get your brother to help you with this?	

The new hardware does not support the old 8 bit software drivers that DOS used.
You would be better off to put Windows 95B on it with MS DOS 6.22 and configure
it that way. You can always go dual boot.	

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From: Brian K. Gaskamp <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Ham-Computers] Need help with DOS
Date: Monday, March 29, 2004 10:11 PM

Yes my brother walked me thru all that, and come to fiind out there are no
cr-rom drivers installed.
Its a HP computer and I'll have to find the model # and get on there site to
maybe obtain a driver fir it.

Only reason I'm doing this for a friend its has a Pentium 4 on it, 1600 mhz
processor, its prety darn fast to not have windows, it was used in a Paint
business, has all kind of porgrams for mixing up paints.

Unless you know of a place to obtain a driver for the cd-rom.

73,
Brian
----- Original Message -----
From: "Duane Fischer, W8DBF " <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, March 29, 2004 2:39 PM
Subject: Re: [Ham-Computers] Need help with DOS

> Just type a drive letter and see if you access the CD rom, such as from
the C:\
> prompt: D: 'enter' If you have a CD in the drive, type 'dir/b' and 'enter'
You
> will either get a vertical list of the CD contents or an error telling you
that
> the drive is not accessible. If the latter, press 'A' to abort. Type: 'C:'
and
> 'enter' You are back on the C:\ drive. Try again.
>
> Now one thing to keep in mind Brian, is whether the computer has load the
> drivers for the CD. Which can be ascertained by reading the 'autoexec.bat'
and
> 'config.sys' files.
>
> ----------
> From: Brian K. Gaskamp <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [Ham-Computers] Need help with DOS
> Date: Monday, March 29, 2004 10:18 AM
>
> Hi gang I have computer in my hands that does not have Windows and I'm
> trying to install Xtree Gold via the cd-rom and can't figure out which
drive
> is the cd-rom.
>
> My days of messing with DOS are rusty.
>
> I downloaded Xtree Gold and put it on CD and want to load it on the older
> computer to see what it has on there.
>
> Can anybody help, I'm sort of lost.
>
> 73,
> Brian
>
> KA5BKG
>
>
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