From: Ciaran Mac Lochlainn (ciaran17 at domain eircom.net)
Date: Thu 30 Aug 2001 - 01:25:41 IST
I can do better than that. I believe I have a DOS 5.0 boot disk knocking
around somewhere. Of course, I'll have to take a look around for it...
Ciaran
On Wednesday 29 August 2001 12:40, you wrote:
> As I said, this is absolutely and completely OT but you can regard it as a
> little charity gig, if any of you can help me. A neighbour asked me if I
> had an old hard drive to put in her 86 year old father's PC (the father's
> 86, not the PC, though it's not far short). To cut a long story short, I
> now have the PC. Its own hard drive appears OK in that I can boot from a
> 'doze floppy and have a look around. However, the hard disk won't boot. I'm
> confident that if I had a bootable floppy I'd be able to simply do a SYS C:
> and the old dude would be happily playing Solitaire and Freecell again,
> which is all he does with it.
>
> However, the box has 'doze 3.x on it, and IBM DOS 5.0, and although I've a
> lot of junk hanging around, I don't have IBM DOS 5.0. So, here's the
> begging part - if anyone has an old box hanging around running IBM DOS 5.0
> (I know, I'm pushing it) would they be so kind as to make a bootable floppy
> (FORMAT A: /S, in case it's been a long time), dd the floppy into a file,
> gzip said file and mail it to me. You'll make an old man very happy (two,
> if you count me who'll be quite happy to get this particular monkey off his
> back).
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> Regards,
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>
> Niall
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