old wreck

2000-02-23 Thread Christian Theil Have
Hi. I've got this old IBM wreck (it's actually a 386 sx, PS/1 type thingy) in my closet. It hasn't been of much use the last couple of years, because the harddisk burned out. I't still got a diskdrive, so I thought i't would be fun trying out elks. Problem is, the computer loads some sort of

Re: old wreck

2000-02-23 Thread Dan Olson
Okay...the harddisk burned out, yet it still loads DOS and a graphic shell? Isn't dosshell the one that DOS 5.00 and later included? I suggest starting with at boot disk, and if that works move on to a hard drive install, or a boot loader (I had trouble with a 8086 PS/2, so testing off of