The tower has booted! Thank you for all of the replies. I read (but did not understand) all of them. It seemed to make sense to me to focus on trying to boot with a floppy because the DBAN floppy would boot every time. It took a long time to find and then a couple of attempts to get hal91 to write to a floppy correctly. If this would be helpful to anyone else, hal91 is available here: http://jspiro.tripod.com/linux/hal91.htm.
I'm almost (skip the almost, I am) afraid to do anything next. Now that hal91 is up and running there is a fdisk command available. I have looked this up on the internet and I do not understand all that I am reading. I have partitioned hard drives for Windows based CNC control systems with instructions from the manufacturer. This was successful because of the specific instructions. I did not interpret generic commands and decide how to partition the drive. Right now I am not even sure if fdisk is the next thing to do. Is there a command to check the hard drive? Are there commands for checking the other parts of the system? CD drive, motherboard, RAM, etc.? If there are commands for making these checks and all of the checks pass would fdisk be the next thing to do? Thanks again for all the replies. I look forward to the next instructions and hopefully the next step of progress to be up and running again. Have a good day, Jim Fleig ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Stay on top of everything new and different, both inside and around Java (TM) technology - register by April 22, and save $200 on the JavaOne (SM) conference, June 2-5, 2009, San Francisco. 300 plus technical and hands-on sessions. Register today. Use priority code J9JMT32. http://p.sf.net/sfu/p _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
