Hi again,
so far I do not know which problem you have with the Agilent device and how you plan to resolve that. Doing network analysis with a Windows 2000 PC with special added signal processing and other hardware is something which you can NOT easily switch over to a different operating system. However you CAN run either DOS or Linux on the simple PC inside your Agilent when you connect PC style keyboard, mouse and VGA screens to it. You may have to change BIOS settings for that, but your handbook contains the BIOS password anyway. So in short: You can run other operating systems on the device, even from external harddisks, but you must avoid any modifications to the network analysis software on the Windows 2000 installation, as well as to any of the involved Agilent Windows drivers. In that context, please explain what you plan to do with DOS. If the device came with a PC DOS floppy with Norton Ghost, then there also must be a way to use that to backup and restore disk images. Of course you can also use FreeDOS, Linux or simply the installed Windows 2000 to run any suitable disk image tool manually. In the DOS case, you may need USB drivers, but you may be able to avoid that using a bootable FreeDOS USB disk: Often, the BIOS supports USB disks as long as you boot from them. Then you do not need USB drivers for DOS. The computer inside your Agilent is old and 256 MB RAM may be too little for modern Windows or Linux, but the graphics will work with DOS and Linux as long as you use the VGA connector at the back. The display built into your Agilent itself needs special drivers and you can assume that it ONLY works with Windows unless you install the exact right drivers before: To work on the driver configuration, you will still need a VGA screen. As said, please be more specific about what you want to do and which problems you have encountered until now. So far, I only know that you want to do something with DOS to copy files (why files and why not disk images? only the latter can boot) between (which direction and why?) your Agilent and some external disk. The Agilent supports floppy drive and USB and LAN, so you have quite many possible channels to copy measurement data to any external storage for further processing in your company. I know that Win 2000 is no longer supported, but as long as you do not connect your Agilent to the internet, nor open files from the outside on it, there is little attack surface for viruses to reach your outdated Windows 2000. Regards, Eric PS: I am not sure if the PANEL EXE driver supports only the touchscreen as mouse or if it also supports output of the DOS screen contents on the touch screen graphics, you have not been very specific about that detail yet. _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
