Re: off topic, but just a bit--DOS dictionary

[Mark Garvey dutch_garvey@xxxxxxxx]

Thanks for the ideas, Marc and Robert. I'll report
back with results.

--- Robert Holmgren  wrote:
> ** Reply to message from Mark Garvey
>  on Mon, 22 Mar
> 2004 17:23:27 -0800 (PST)
>
>
> > Anyone have any good ideas for getting around this
> > trouble?
>
> Burn the contents of the floppies to CD, using same
> subdir names (if any) as
> the floppies... Then install normally.
>
> If Setup insists on a Drive A:, disable floppy drive
> in the BIOS, then use
> SUBST command to make a hard drive dir appear to be
> A:
>
> Or: use a crossover CAT5 cable between the two
> machines, or LapLink or
> something, and transfer data from desktop to DOS
> machine
>
> Or: boot the Desktop with a DOS floppy, install on
> the Desktop, reboot into
> Windows, burn the complete installation to CD-ROM,
> move it to HP.
>
> Or: Email the floppies to yourself
>
> Or: buy an external floppy drive for next to
> nothing, connect to parallel port
>
> Or about 100 other ways of doing this... But you
> chose the last thing I'd do,
> which is install it under Windows. When you say
> something like "It does run,
> sort of, in standalone mode", alarms ring. The
> devil is in precisely those
> "sort of" details.
>
> -----------------------------
> Robert Holmgren
> holmgren@xxxxxxxx
> -----------------------------
>


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