lowmem.bin

1999-09-16 Thread alex aitkin
Does anyone know how lowmem.bin might be loaded from a DOS partition, rather than from a diskette? I have had no luck loading it from disk, I always get a 'boot failed' message, and that's it. My laptop has only 4megs of RAM, and try as I might, I have had no luck installing from diskette, using

lowmem.bin

1999-09-16 Thread alex aitkin
Does anyone know how lowmem.bin might be loaded from a DOS partition, rather than from a diskette? I have had no luck loading it from disk, I always get a 'boot failed' message, and that's it. My laptop has only 4megs of RAM, and try as I might, I have had no luck installing from diskette, using

T1910 - boot failed

1999-09-04 Thread alex aitkin
I have tried on many occasions to boot my Toshiba T1910 (4M Ram, 123M HDD) using the lowmem.bin boot disk - I always receive the message 'boot failed' - I have down loaded the lowmem.bin file from debian FTP on several occasions, and used various disks, and I have used rawrite2.exe from DOS, not ju

T1910 - boot failed

1999-09-04 Thread alex aitkin
I have tried on many occasions to boot my Toshiba T1910 (4M Ram, 123M HDD) using the lowmem.bin boot disk - I always receive the message 'boot failed' - I have down loaded the lowmem.bin file from debian FTP on several occasions, and used various disks, and I have used rawrite2.exe from DOS, not ju

zip installation

1999-08-25 Thread alex aitkin
can I install from an external zip drive? anyone? aa

zip installation

1999-08-25 Thread alex aitkin
can I install from an external zip drive? anyone? aa

Toshiba T1910

1999-08-25 Thread alex aitkin
Problem - I have 123M of HDD to work with on my Toshiba 486 laptop- I was just going to install Linux on it, but my T1910 uses a .exe file to manipulate BIOS settings, and this file runs under MS-DOS. SO . . .will Linux allow access to BIOS settings some other way, OR, can I run MS-DOS emulation s

Toshiba T1910

1999-08-25 Thread alex aitkin
Problem - I have 123M of HDD to work with on my Toshiba 486 laptop- I was just going to install Linux on it, but my T1910 uses a .exe file to manipulate BIOS settings, and this file runs under MS-DOS. SO . . .will Linux allow access to BIOS settings some other way, OR, can I run MS-DOS emulation s