I too have had blinking-cursor-hang;PloP boot manager will often, but not
always succeed in mounting/loading a usb. I suspect that the main problem
with the usb stick is that it often contains
an HPA partition. If the usb truly behaved as a hard drive, you could
eliminate the HPA. When using 'hdpar
On 12/10/2013 5:40 PM, Robert Moler wrote:
This box has what looks like it may have been a tag on top at the
back. There's just some stuck paper there now as if something has
been removed. On the back there is a bar code tag with D711D7 in the
middle of it.
That's one character short, the S/T
On 12/10/2013 7:20 PM, Ralf Quint wrote:
On 12/10/2013 4:14 PM, Robert Moler wrote:
The Bios on the Dell machine clearly offers USB as a boot option. I
made a bootable USB stick with FreeDos on it using _*RUFUS*_ which
was suggested by someone earlier. It did appear to have gotten most
of th
On 12/10/2013 4:14 PM, Robert Moler wrote:
The Bios on the Dell machine clearly offers USB as a boot option. I
made a bootable USB stick with FreeDos on it using _*RUFUS*_ which was
suggested by someone earlier. It did appear to have gotten most of
the way through the cold boot process before
On 12/10/2013 5:00 PM, Ralf Quint wrote:
On 12/10/2013 6:41 AM, Robert Moler wrote:
I wasn't being clear enough about what I've been trying to do.
The XT machine has 2 GB of RAM. It is a 32 bit machine.
An XT, as in "PC XT" can neither be a 32bit machine nor have 2GB of RAM.
Using this term h
On 12/10/2013 6:41 AM, Robert Moler wrote:
> I wasn't being clear enough about what I've been trying to do.
>
> The XT machine has 2 GB of RAM. It is a 32 bit machine.
An XT, as in "PC XT" can neither be a 32bit machine nor have 2GB of RAM.
Using this term here is what is leading to confusion...
I wasn't being clear enough about what I've been trying to do.
The XT machine has 2 GB of RAM. It is a 32 bit machine. I thought I
could load 32 bit Ubuntu and make it a dual boot machine. There is some
hangup in the video card, because beyond the B&W opening screen asking
me about doing a t
Hi Robert,
as far as I remember, XT machines are 16 bit, so Ubuntu
cannot run on that processor and on that amount of RAM.
Regarding FreeDOS, I am not sure whether you tried to
install it from the USB stick to the USB stick or to
the harddisk of the computer: Some BIOSes make sticks
look as if t
