On 27 Mar 2002 at 3:40, Jerry J. Haumberger wrote: >On 2002-03-26 [EMAIL PROTECTED] <Anthony J. Albert> said: > >Another thought occurs to me. If perhaps the monitor doesn't work > >"right" in 25-line mode, it could be changed to 43 line or 50 line > >modes, to see if that does the trick. You need to load the ANSI.SYS > >driver in CONFIG.SYS with: > >DEVICE=C:\DOS\ANSI.SYS (change the path as appropriate) > >And then you can experiment at the command line with: > >MODE CON:lines=43 > >MODE CON:lines=50 > >Since I've got PC DOS 3.3 installed on this system, it only allows me >to change the width and not the number of lines with ANSI.SYS installed >and the MODE command. > >My problem is that this system has 5.25" and 3.5" floppy drives, but the >5.25" drive is the default boot drive. The CMOS doesn't allow me to >alter the boot sequence to cause the 3.5" drive to be the default -- and >my 3.5" PC DOS 5 disks don't allow installation from the B drive -- unless >I'm mistaken. Perhaps I can try to figure that problem out later... it's >getting late, and I'll think better on a good night's rest. :-) > >Jerry... on his COMPAQ PORTABLE II -- #4 | My laptop computer's a >***** 14.4kbps/42MB HD/640k RAM/8 MHz | Tandy TRS-80 Model 100
Does the system BIOS allow you to change the drives? I.e., substitute a 3.5" floppy for the 5.25" floppy? If so, you could temporarily put in a 3.5" drive as A:, and install from that, then put the 5.25" drive back. Also, if you have an HD 5.25" drive, it may be possible to create a set of disks to use as install disks from your 3.5" floppies, using an HD 5.25" drive in another system. Hope this helps, Anthony J. Albert =========================================================== Anthony J. Albert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems and Software Support Specialist Postmaster Computer Services - University of Maine, Presque Isle "Ta'Lon, is that you?" "It's me most days, except for those days when I don't feel quite like myself and I suppose that I am someone else, but for now, yes, it is me." -G'Kar and Ta'Lon, Babylon 5 episode: _The_Ragged_Edge_ To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
