>> Hi;

>> I'm getting too attached to Arachne.
Likewise.
I keep the most recent netscape that win3.1 with 32S will run, (4.03?) and when
I had to get a javascripted driving test off the net last week it still
would not work - required a more recent browser.
Still, the beauty of Arachne was that I could quite hapily put it all
in a download file and take it to a machine that could read it. The
difficulty some browsers seem to have with attachments and downloads
that they cant identify continues to disgust me.

I locked up Arachne the other day with a 3 meg download which took my
Hard drive to zero free space....the big red button worked nicely, and
a bit of cache fishing yeilded my undamaged download in only seconds.

Oh, about the esc. key - the first thing I do after install is to
disable it !!

>> back with the "ESC" key - which is my back button and I guess I went too
>> far back cuz the damn thing tried to download mail again. I *HATE* that.

>> Reboot.
>> Invalid drive specification.
>> Floppy boot.
>> C:
>> Invalid drive specification.
>> NDD
>> C:
>> A bootable partition requires a 55AA signature (or some such nonsense)
>> do you want to make this partion bootable ?
>> Yes.
>> A bootable drive requires a boot record in the first sector (whatever)
>> do you want to make this drive bootable ?

I went through a similar dance last week. I had taken a HDD out of my
trusty 386 after a low level format and cull following its  crash and burn
in the APTIVA James uses for network testing.

The Aptiva worked for a bit when I put the HDD back in it, and then
claimed there was nothing on the hard drive. A reformat and reload
solved things fopr a while and then
the next day, blank HDD again.....grrrrr

Hang on - there is a 2 metre goanna raiding the kitchen ........

Impressive but unpleasant creatures.
Back to the story:
It seems that with my failing eyesight I had done a low level format of
the drive at 35 sectors instead of 39. My dumb 386 bios (americal
megatrends) had taken the HDD at face value and it had worked
faultlessly.  The Aptiva with its fancy BIOS had decided for itself what
the disk was supposed to be and of course had scrambled the data.

The point of my post here is to reiterate the importance of having
equipment that is not too clever by half. I love my old 386 with MFM
drive, 360Kb floppy and CGA screen - it is the backup  and boot machine
here of last resort. Funny hardware, and virus problems all get referred
to the 386.

Kali

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