>> 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
