ummmm...you can have my wife's olds pc. Pentium 2 and rock solid. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Jay Salzman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2004 8:43 AM Subject: Re: [vox-tech] floppy madness
> On Wed 28 Apr 04, 8:23 AM, Ken Bloom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 07:05:52AM -0700, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I made a bootable CD using the "DOS" that comes with Windows 95. It's > > > the kind of DOS that says "Starting Windows 95" at boot time. > > > > > > I tried to run the executable that should upgrade the BIOS, but got the > > > message: > > > > > > A:\> bios_6bx.exe > > > This program must be run under Win32. > > > > > > Can someone tell me precisely what Windows 95 is? I was under the > > > impression that the DOS that comes with Win95 *is* actually win32. It's > > > the win32 kernel without graphics support. At least that was my > > > understanding. Can someone explain what the relation is between Windows > > > 95 and the "DOS" that comes with it? > > > > I know that Windows 95 is an evolution of the DOS product line, but I > > don't know the exact details of how it works. My totally uneducated > > guess would be that DOS starts, then at some point it starts Windows. > > > > At any rate, the Win32 apis are implemented in kernel32.dll and > > user32.dll (I think those were the names), but your floppy disk has > > only three (four?) files on it: > > msdos.sys > > io.sys > > command.com > > bios_6bx.exe (?) > > (The first two are the MS-DOS kernel, the third is the shell) > > > > This is MS-DOS of olde, without the Win32 APIs. > > > > > > > > It looks like I'll have to use Ryan's idea of finding a Windows hard > > > drive to swap into this computer. > > > > My name isn't Ryan. ;) > > Heh. I was actually thinking about my "Great Spam Adventure" post. He > had replied, and I've been meaning to get back to him, but fixing my > wife's computer takes precedence over that. > > In any event, I think I now understand why it wouldn't run. It wasn't > the flash utility itself --- the it was a self-extracting zip file, > which requires the ability to put a window on the screen and draw a > picture of a file uncompressing. Jeez. Talk about non-functionality. > > Well, I have my wife's old win95 running on this computer. I just > extracted the BIOS flash utility but it won't run. But now that it's > extracted, I'll try booting into non-graphicalk win95 and see if it > works there. > > For the record, win95 will work on an SMP machine. It probably just > ignores the second CPU. I've been too busy to investigate that further. > > Holy cow. I feel like I've been walking miles, in a strong wind, > uphill, in wet mud. Every little thing I want to try becomes a huge > task only to find it doesn't work. This is exhausting! > > Pete > > -- > Make everything as simple as possible, but no simpler. -- Albert Einstein > GPG Instructions: http://www.dirac.org/linux/gpg > GPG Fingerprint: B9F1 6CF3 47C4 7CD8 D33E 70A9 A3B9 1945 67EA 951D > _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech > _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
