[Ham-Computers] Need help with DOS

Tue, 30 Mar 2004 09:10:41 -0000

try www.drivers.com or do a search for drivers on the net  kc8eaf
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brian K. Gaskamp" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 3:11 AM
Subject: Re: [Ham-Computers] Need help with DOS


> 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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