[arachne] Re: INFO NEEDED FOR POSSIBLE FUTURE DOS/ARACHNESUPPORT
- From: "Greg Mayman" <gmone@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: arachne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2008 08:58:35 +0930
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On Mon, 8 Dec 2008 09:59:48 -0500 (EST), Sam Ewalt wrote:
> I routinely use three different computers--two at my house and another
> elsewhere. I can transfer everything I need via email and the internet.
> Mostly I use an IMAP web interface provided by my ISP to do email on
> the two Windows computers and I send myself email from the Arachne
> computer if something needs to go in that direction.
> So, my computers are networked by the internet. And my email is
> available from any computer that can access the web.
I have four boxes of floppies containing master installation files of my
DOS software and a lot of my personal data files.
Last year when my hard disk refused to rotate, everything on it was
effectively lost and I had to start loading a new, blank, 10Gb HDD from
scratch, as follows:
1. boot the comp from the DOS boot floppy
2. FDISK the new HDD to partitions small enough for DOS to use
3. format each partition
4. install DOS on the primary partition
5. reboot from the HDD
6. start installing software and data files from the copies on my
backup floppies.
As far as I can see there is no way I could have performed the first
three steps without using the floppy drive.
The others could have been done via the internet, if my backup files
were on another computer, although with considerable difficulty.
Go placidly amid the noise and haste,
and remember what peace there may be in silence.
"Desiderata", Max Ehrmann, copyright 1952.
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