On Sun, 2004-07-11 at 21:01, John D. Tiedeman wrote:
> On looking again, I found the message was "bad diskette boot record." I
> took out the diskette and it booted, and I found how to bring up notepad
> from the command line. But it takes an awfully long time to boot, then
> bring up Windows 3.1, then bring up anything else--the meeting could be
> half over before I'm ready! So I'd still like to know about a stripped
> version of Linux and where to get it. Or can I extract it from Fedora or
> some earlier Red Hat distro I already have? I do have a "business card"
> version of some other distro, but it's on a little CD-ROM and I have no
> means of reading a CD into the old system (my only external drive is
> USB, which wasn't invented when the Ambra was built).
>
Ok, I don't think Linux is your answer here. This is an issue that can
be cleaned up with DOS tools. Use chkdsk from the command line. You
can type chkdsk /? for help. Win 3.1 shipped with DOS 5.0. There are
lists of all the commands on the net.
> ___________________
> Nolug mailing list
> nolug@nolug.org
___________________
Nolug mailing list
nolug@nolug.org
Received on 07/13/04
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.2.0 : 12/19/08 EST