Re: [Freedos-user] Laptop resurrection

2004-10-07 Thread 16 BIT
No CD-ROM? I don't know if the product(s) I'm about to describe are still marketed. Having qualified this much, I'd like to say that a few years ago there were: 1) CD-ROM drives that attached to and ran off the parallel port. 2) Kits to allow a person to use a standard IDE CD-ROM drive to run of

[Freedos-user] Re: Laptop resurrection

2004-10-07 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! [You want to install dual-boot FreeDOS/Debian on a laptop without CD] My suggestion is to copy FreeDOS CD-ROM contents with help of Debian. Then boot FreeDOS from floppy and start TEXTINST to unzip the packages. You will have to make the C: drive bootable manually (SYS C:) and you will have

[Freedos-user] Laptop resurrection

2004-10-07 Thread Ian McCall
I've come into posession of an old laptop, spec currently unknown but is likely to be either a 486 or early Pentium. It has only a floppdy drive, no CD, but it does have a serial and parallel port which makes it of use to me. I'm going to wipe it and turn it into a dual-boot FreeDOS/Debian stab

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