On 17 Jul 2001, Christopher Keller wrote:
>Mike, that's for the info on multiple subscriptions. Was too blantantly
>obvious for me to see.
;o)
>I briefly looked over drdos (will test later), but it seemed that I
>needed a DOS/windows installation to unpack the tools and run them
>(DISKCOPY, SYS, etc) to actually create the DRDOS boot disk. Granted,
>once you do that the first time, you are pretty much MS free. I do have
>access to a windows box here at work that I can try DRDOS from, so i
>guess it's a moot point in the end. I'm just surprised that there isn't
>a reliable (non-beta) way to create a bootable MSDOS floppy from
>unix/linux; something like mkdosbootdsk....
>
>Or am I woefully misinformed?
You could use FreeDOS to create a boot disk and then install
DRDOS. ;o)
>Also, Mike, I looked at Tyan, but the only non-VIA motherboard I saw ws
>the dual CPU Thunder? Still debating whether or not I dislike VIA enough
>to purchase two new CPU's and a new motherboard.
The Tyan Thunder S2567 with 2 1Ghz CPU's and 1G of RAM smokes.
Only catch is there is no public agpgart _yet_ for it. I am
working on getting this to happen though.
The new dual Tbird board I hear smokes also. Of course these
boards cost more than a small country's GNP though so... ;o)
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