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