On 12/10/2013 5:00 PM, Ralf Quint wrote:
On 12/10/2013 6:41 AM, Robert Moler wrote:
I wasn't being clear enough about what I've been trying to do.
The XT machine has 2 GB of RAM. It is a 32 bit machine.
An XT, as in "PC XT" can neither be a 32bit machine nor have 2GB of RAM.
Using this term here is what is leading to confusion...
Arg! XP, it has XP as the operating system.
I thought I could load 32 bit Ubuntu and make it a dual boot machine. There is
some
hangup in the video card, because beyond the B&W opening screen asking
me about doing a trial installation, I never got a screen again other
than a few lines of diagnostics.
As far as FreeDOS (or any other DOS for that matter) is concerned, the
video card in use is of no real concern, as long as it displays anything at all.
There would be not point in loading FreeDos on the Win XP machine. It
run my old DOS program just fine.
I also have a second XT (XP not XT) machine, older still that I plan to give
away. Ubuntu (32 bit) opened just fine in the
trial mode on it. I kept it around out of nostalgia more than anything
else. The C: drive on it is only 15 GB (how old is that?) and clogged.
Again, not an "XT" machine, not sure why you call it that way...
My "new" machine is a refurbished 64 bit DELL running Win 7 Home Premium
(2 GB of RAM). That is the machine that hangs when I try to install
FreeDos either through VirtualBox or booting from a USB stick. The
evidence, such as it is, suggests that it is the UIDE that is the problem
DOS doesn't really know about USB or booting of a USB drive, the BIOS of
the machine (or an early loaded driver) would have to mask this in a way
that it fits what DOS can see and understand as bootable drives. And of
course, the host PC needs to be able to boot of a USB device in the
first place. What is the service tag of that machine, as you say it is a
Dell?
Ralf
The Bios on the Dell machine clearly offers USB as a boot option. I
made a bootable USB stick with FreeDos on it using _*RUFUS*_ which was
suggested by someone earlier. It did appear to have gotten most of the
way through the cold boot process before it halted. I don't know what a
service tag is since, except for that particular machine, I've assembled
from scratch every PC we've every had since 1986. The Dell apparently
originally ran MS Vista.
My wife's computer is also running Win 7 (32 bit) and I tried
VirtualBox. Again I could not get FreeDos to install and load.
I think it is about time for me to stop wasting you good people's time
and throw in the towel.
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