On Tue, 5 Nov 2002 17:49:15 -0500 (EST), ANDY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> hi all, > I tried following mostly Glenn McCorkle's advice > I forgot to tell everyone that my zip drive is a *parallel port* drive; > *NOT* SCSI!! > I ended up with an entry in my *CONFIG.SYS* that reads: > DEVICEHIGH or DEVICE C:\ZIPTOOLS\GUEST.EXE (: > this upon boot-up resulted/results in a DOS/EMS386 lengthy/large error > message which would/will not let me *even cold* reboot (: > I can't get to the C:\> prompt (: > my A: drive is faulty/(I guess dirty) so would not recognize the system > disk I made using my laptop (: > so unless I want to go out purchase then install a new floppy drive, my > machine is out of commission (: It's not out of commission. Just do a "bare boot". On most machines, Press and hold the ESC key as soon as the 'beep' sounds to indicate that your OS is about to load. Check several posible keys if ESC does not do the job. It might be the SHIFT key instead. Or perhaps the F1 or F2 key. But whichever key it turns-out to be. This will boot the system without config.sys and autoexec.bat Now you can edit that line from config.sys and put in the correct ones. MY ZIP is also the P-port model. These are the drivers which "fake" the P-port as being a SCSI interface. (they are located on the install ZIPdisc that came with the ZIPdrive) rem ZIP DRIVE DEVICEHIGH=C:\IOMEGA\ASPIPPM1.SYS FILE=PC873EPP.ILM SPEED= 10 DEVICE=C:\IOMEGA\ASPIPPM2.SYS FILE=NIBBLE2.ILM SPEED=10 Quiet DEVICE=C:\IOMEGA\ASPIIDE.SYS Scan Info Quiet DEVICE=C:\IOMEGA\SCSICFG.EXE /V DEVICE=C:\IOMEGA\SCSIDRVR.SYS SET SCSI_DRIVER = C:\IOMEGA SET SCSI_UTILITY = C:\IOMEGA If you don't have these files. Let me know and I'll be more than happy to send them to you. The above section might be different in your case. The ZIPdisk also ncludes a Dos setup utility to place the correct lines into your config.sys file. > I guess i'm lucky i have this Windows3.11 486 laptop that I can web and > e-mail > it's just I had been hoping to get my 386 running again with arachne > albeit on zip disk(the HD on this got full of mostly spam downloaded then > saved Arachne e-mail) (: > thanks for all the help rendered > the problem I mostly had mimicing Glenn's sys files was how to get boot-up > to ignore my CD-ROM(and hence maybe giving arachne's packet driver enough > room to load) without giving me that DOS/EMS386 large, lengthy, error > message.. maybe this should have been done in the BIOS SETUP? > well.. thanks anyway everybody... No CD-ROM ???? No problem. :)) rem-out the lines in config.sys and autoexec.bat which load it. But... if you use a setup something like I indicated in those sample config.sys and autoexec.bat files. You won't need to rem-out those lines. Even with everything loaded. You'll still have plenty of memory left for anything you need to run. -- Glenn http://arachne.cz/ http://www.delorie.com/listserv/mime/ http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/download.htm http://www.thispagecannotbedisplayed.com/
