[arachne] Re: Avira rescuecd (was Re: DOS antivirus)

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On Thu, 28 May 2009 08:15:50 +1000, Ron Clarke wrote:

> Hi Folks,

> On Wed, 27 May 2009 17:05:40 -0500
> "Glenn McCorkle" <glennmcc@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> The most recent F-Prot for DOS with the
>> most recent definitions files (Nov 2008), is in my D/L dir...
>> http://www.glennmcc.org/download/fprotdos.zip

>> fprotdos.zip -- 01/23/09 | 09:57 -- 9,826,269 bytes

> This is all I have, in DOS.

>> Along with the Avira rescueCD ISO image...
>> http://www.glennmcc.org/download/rescuecd.iso

>> rescuecd.iso -- 05/24/09 | 16:15 -- 51,693,568 bytes

> I downloaded that a few days ago and burned it to CD.
> On my AMD K6 600 MHz with 256 MB RAM, it boots to the GUI and then does 
nothing.
> Mouse (serial port) does not work, and keyboard is ignored.
> It required a hard RESET to get out of it.

> I am not impressed !

Yes... unfortunately, the Avira rescueCD does not work 'out of the box'
with serial mice but only with PS/2 & USB mice.

However, there is hope.

At the 'boot: prompt' try this all on one line and then hit <enter>.....

boot: vmlinuz initrd=initrd.gz vga=769 ramdisk_size=99889 root=/dev/ram0
 rw console=/dev/vc/4 mouse=serial0

'boot prompt' already there... do not type 'boot:'

serial0 if your mouse is on com1, serial1 for com2

All of the above is exactly what's in the isolinux.cfg file on the CD
but then we add 'mouse=serial0' (or 1)
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Good luck... hope that fixes it.

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