NathanAllan
Veteran Member
I have found another reason to go with linux on the laptop.
I needed to use Linux to do my homework and all I have that works well is a boot floppy for a certain distro (can't remember which distro). I had to make the img file go to the fdd and then boot from it. When I tried to use winimage with the 166mhz win2k machine to make the floppy it kept giving me errors.
I went and did the SAME THING in the 75mhz dos laptop with the SAME floppy drive from the other computer (the two will swap) and it ran fine! I used rawrite2.exe in the dos box-- only difference.
So win2k didn't like the floppy drive of it's old computer. It doesn't liek that computer AT ALL. I'm definitely going with Linux on that damn laptop. win2k gives me too much crap about it.
Nathan
on topic cause they're both old computers[/i]
I needed to use Linux to do my homework and all I have that works well is a boot floppy for a certain distro (can't remember which distro). I had to make the img file go to the fdd and then boot from it. When I tried to use winimage with the 166mhz win2k machine to make the floppy it kept giving me errors.
I went and did the SAME THING in the 75mhz dos laptop with the SAME floppy drive from the other computer (the two will swap) and it ran fine! I used rawrite2.exe in the dos box-- only difference.
So win2k didn't like the floppy drive of it's old computer. It doesn't liek that computer AT ALL. I'm definitely going with Linux on that damn laptop. win2k gives me too much crap about it.
Nathan
on topic cause they're both old computers[/i]