Hi Robert,
as far as I remember, XT machines are 16 bit, so Ubuntu
cannot run on that processor and on that amount of RAM.
Regarding FreeDOS, I am not sure whether you tried to
install it from the USB stick to the USB stick or to
the harddisk of the computer: Some BIOSes make sticks
look as if
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. 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 BW opening screen asking
me about doing a
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...
I
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
On 12/10/2013 4:14 PM, Robert Moler wrote:
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
On 12/10/2013 7:20 PM, Ralf Quint wrote:
On 12/10/2013 4:14 PM, Robert Moler wrote:
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
On 12/10/2013 5:40 PM, Robert Moler wrote:
This box has what looks like it may have been a tag on top at the
back. There's just some stuck paper there now as if something has
been removed. On the back there is a bar code tag with D711D7 in the
middle of it.
That's one character short, the
I was delighted to discover FreeDos, because I have an old Music DOS
data base that I've been using since 1986. It runs in XP but not in Win
7. So I loaded the virtual box and then FreeDos. except that it never
finished loading after reaching the point in the instructions (End of
Chapter
the new virtualbox and the new uide don't do that.
someone can show you where the new (uide) drivers are.
eufdp...@yahoo.com
eufdp...@yahoo.com
eufdp...@yahoo.com
eufdp...@yahoo.com
eufdp...@yahoo.com
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