[ncolug] Re: DOS 6.0 or higher disks needed
- From: Chuck Stickelman <cstickelman@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: ncolug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2006 18:29:04 -0400
Henry Keultjes wrote:
Chuck Stickelman wrote:
Or you could just take the HD out of the 486 and put it into the
Pentium...
That's worth a try but I don't think it will work because Pick will
believe it is running on 486
That's weird. Does Pick for 486 have different executables than Pick
for Pentium? How else would Pick know (or not know) that it's on a new
platform?
I guess I don't understand Pick well enough... No other operating
environment I know of would be confused by moving a HD from one system
to another...
The media has to be diskette.
Confused again... If Pick of that era only understands diskettes, then
what's all this talk about the HD? Please enlighten me.
Pick of that era doesn't understand anything alse and the key is
that it rewrites the whole disc surface and . . . DOS is what I have
used before so I am familiar with it.
That I understand... knowing the tools you're working with is
important. Though learning Linux at this level shouldn't take too
long... Traditional partitioning of a HD in an IBM environment can't
take on too many flavors... we're constrained by assumptions IBM (and
Microsoft) made 25+ years ago. This is why the newer OSs, like XP Pro,
*BSD, and Linux use a totally new (and incompatible) scheme; we just hit
a wall on functionality that IBM never envisioned...
When I have time to experiment I will try the Linux partitioning tool.
I think it would be worth your while to force yourself to make this
investment of time and energy! The best way to learn is to just jump in
and learn.
Henry
Chuck
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