On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 19:39, Tom Emerson wrote:
On Tuesday 20 January 2004 1:43 am, John Andersen wrote:
And 98 can not boot to a dos prompt.
guess again, junior -- try this:
go to the root directory of your boot disk attrib -r -h -s msdos.sys edit msdos.sys
Microsoft tries REALLY hard to hide the fact that "windows" is nothing more than KDE, gnome, or even Presentation Manager -- even though these are the programs that "manage the user's interaction via a graphical environment", we don't call them "linux" or "OS/2", now do we? [ok, maybe a few OS/2 zealots refer to PM as OS/2, but only those that are "still recent converts" from the windows world ;) ]
Tom
p.s. -- totally off the beaten track here, but for real fun and giggles, try this: [note: needs a computer where you can totally wipe out C:]
boot a system using a win98 boot floppy -- note that there is no "splash" screen [note also that you are at a "true dos prompt"] format a hard drive with the "/s" parameter to make it a bootable system disk boot from the hard disk -- explain where the "splash" screen came from since it wasn't on the boot floppy... It was on there but the folks at MS decided not to make you wait for it to load from floppy (from a hard disk thats another story)
-- Yet another Blog: http://osnut.homelinux.net -- Ken Schneider unix user since 1989
The OT in the subject says it all, take this to the OT mail list please. On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 07:17, David Alan Blomberg wrote: linux user since 1994 SuSE user since 1998 (5.2)