Thanks for your prompt and helpful reply, Ron.
I have been looking at DSL this evening and it may be a good option, but
not if it, too, hangs up in the middle of loading without any error
messages. I've downloaded the relevant versiona nd plan to try it later
this week.
The Floppy Disks fail
On 02/17/2009 02:03 AM, Martin Willcocks wrote:
[snip]
Error message? None, the installation simply hung. In the bottom right
of the screen is a spinning disk graphic that stopped spinning about
30 seconds into the third part of the installation, Detecting Hardware.
Then maybe a h/w
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 07:06:28AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 02/17/2009 02:03 AM, Martin Willcocks wrote:
[snip]
Error message? None, the installation simply hung. In the bottom right
of the screen is a spinning disk graphic that stopped spinning about
30 seconds into the third part
On Monday 16 February 2009, Martin Willcocks wrote:
I have an older Debian Linux version that came with Corel WordPerfect
8, and it had been working satisfactorily on my somewhat ancient 170MHz
Pentium computer system with 128Mb RAM, but Lilo stopped working about
a year ago. Despite several
Hi Greg and Douglas:
Many thanks for the additional information about diagnostics and the
older Debian Linux. There is probably a hardware issue with one of the
floppy drives that is somehow corrected once Windows 98 has fully
booted, but which still affects booting from a floppy disk. I
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 09:23:29PM -0700, Martin Willcocks wrote:
Hi Greg and Douglas:
Martin, don't cc me; I subscribe to the list.
floppy drives that is somehow corrected once Windows 98 has fully
booted, but which still affects booting from a floppy disk. I did try
You can probably
On 02/16/2009 08:03 PM, Martin Willcocks wrote:
I have an older Debian Linux version that came with Corel WordPerfect 8,
and it had been working satisfactorily on my somewhat ancient 170MHz
Pentium computer system with 128Mb RAM, but Lilo stopped working about a
year ago.
Error message?
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