Mike - he doesn't have serial ports and you think he'd have a USB port? J A serial port is just a ISA/PCI card, easy to find in most junk shops these days for a couple bucks. I have a box full of them.
>From there Dave needs a properly pinned serial cable so that he can reach out from one PC with AccuTerm into the R83 box. Dave, you might need a cross-over adapter for this to swap pins 2/3. And of course you need to work through whether you're using a 25pin or 9pin serial adapter on both ends. Oh boy, get out those crimpers and the magnifying glasses. (Better you than me, bud. ;) ) Another alternative (and much faster though more costly) is to put a NIC in the R83 box and then negotiate a one-time / week-long license with EasyCo for PicLan (http://piclan.com/). Then you can telnet into R83 and the world becomes a much better place - for this week anyway. Another option that I have never tried - load R83 into a virtual machine (free VMware Player). You might then be able to somehow connect "virtually" through the serial port, or use PicLan as above. The good news here is - No Hardware! The bad news - you may be on your own in trying to get this to work and there are no guarantees that it will. You'll need to look around the VMware forums for anyone trying to make use of virtual serial ports. Completely off-topic for this thread and for jBase, but regarding multiboot with Windows and Linux: You _can_ install Linux first, then Windows. But you need to go back and re-install GRUB (or other) to the MBR as the bootloader afterward so that you can get a selection when you boot. As mentioned earlier, I've been using Partition Commander for more versatility (and I have something like 8 partitions that I can boot from on one of my boxes). YMMV HTH T From: mike ryder Dave, You are lucky that you have anything of R83 left! Windows does not acknowledge that there can be any other operating system in th world. If you want to install a second OS (even wen installing Linux) you have to load winblows first. For serial ports, you can buy a USB-serial adaptor (try maplin) Mike On Wednesday, March 14, 2012 11:51:09 AM UTC, Dave Grenfell wrote: Tony: I'm back, all browned up and ready to begin. Hit my first snag. The computer I was going to use for xp/jbase has no serial ports, so will have to look for either an older box, or a serial port card. When I get this put together, I will begin the transfer process. As an aside, I put R83 on an old Pentium 233 box, and it worked perfectly. I then installed windows 2000 on the other half of the hard drive, and now seems the only way I can boot PICK is to use the floppy to execute the monitor. I guess the multiple boot thing doesn't work because windows doesn't recognize the pick partition as valid. I will post progress reports. Dave. -- IMPORTANT: T24/Globus posts are no longer accepted on this forum. To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jBASE?hl=en
