Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos won't load.

2013-12-26 Thread dmccunney
On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Eric Auer e.a...@jpberlin.de wrote: You probably have FreeDOS on your Acer Revo because Acer wanted to sell a complete PC so you can see that everything works. And they probably did not want to spend money for Windows or effort to fine-tune Linux for the Revo.

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos won't load.

2013-12-26 Thread Mateusz Viste
Still, it seems that at least some series are shipped with FreeDOS: http://www.acerdirect.co.uk/Acer_Revo_Nettop_Celeron_887_4GB_750GB_Shared_No_Opt_WiFi__Free_Dos_DT.SMCEK.003/version.asp As Eric said, FreeDOS is probably only used as an easy way of checking that the machine works (or boots,

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos won't load.

2013-12-26 Thread dmccunney
On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 12:37 PM, Mateusz Viste mate...@viste-family.net wrote: Still, it seems that at least some series are shipped with FreeDOS: http://www.acerdirect.co.uk/Acer_Revo_Nettop_Celeron_887_4GB_750GB_Shared_No_Opt_WiFi__Free_Dos_DT.SMCEK.003/version.asp That one does. What Stan

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos won't load.

2013-12-26 Thread Ralf Quint
On 12/26/2013 9:37 AM, Mateusz Viste wrote: Still, it seems that at least some series are shipped with FreeDOS: http://www.acerdirect.co.uk/Acer_Revo_Nettop_Celeron_887_4GB_750GB_Shared_No_Opt_WiFi__Free_Dos_DT.SMCEK.003/version.asp As Eric said, FreeDOS is probably only used as an easy way

[Freedos-user] Freedos won't load.

2013-12-25 Thread stanparkin...@sky.com
Hi I'm new to freedos so please be patient. I recently purchased an Acer Revo RL80,connected up and switched on.The system started to load and then failed,leaving the message NO DRIVES ASSIGNED CANNOT LOAD SHCDX33A ! I'm only left with the command prompt and have no idea how to continue. I've

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos won't load.

2013-12-25 Thread dmccunney
On Wed, Dec 25, 2013 at 10:06 AM, stanparkin...@sky.com stanparkin...@sky.com wrote: Hi I'm new to freedos so please be patient. I recently purchased an Acer Revo RL80,connected up and switched on.The system started to load and then failed,leaving the message NO DRIVES ASSIGNED CANNOT LOAD