On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 01:19:01PM -0700, Paul G. Allen wrote: > On 7/27/05, Paul G. Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Well, so far neither the FreeDOS installation CD or the custom CDs I > > tried to make will boot in my laptop. Now I'll see if they'll boot on > > this workstation. > > > > Won't work on the workstation either. It boots into the install menu, > then when I hit <Enter>, the computer locks up. On the laptop, it just > cycles through the BIOS splash screen (continually reboots). > > The real solution is to convince the powers that be to give me the > time to re-write the old DOS application in a generic form that'll run > on any OS. (All the time we've spent fscking around trying to get this > old thing working for our various customers, I could have had it > re-written by now! Typical.) > > PGA
I hear ya on the engineering plan. Wasn't there another DOS that was OSS? DRDOS or something? Or did that morph into FreeDOS? -- Lan Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Guy, SCM Specialist 858-354-0616 -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
