DOMS

Look here.

Sure, he could just reinstall 98 and it would keep all of the programs. He just needs the disk.

BoneCrusher

I don't use google as much for the torrents I need. Like you cfs I am a torrent freak ...

Anyway here is an index with a couple of good 98 torrents. You can d'load them and reinstall your OS from disc. My advice is to re-format you primary HDD ... probably your C: drive ... and start clean. 98 is not so good of a choice if you do that ... W2k is way better and will work fine on almost any PC that was running W98. Here is an index with several windows torrents. Some windows boot help stuff, WXP, W2K with SP4 ... and so on.

Here is a Bit Torrent FAQ plus another FAQ here for wahtever you missed with every piece of info from the basics of bit torrents to all the advanced stuff you need. From those two sources you can go from WTF is a torrent to compressing DVD's for seeding or installing what you download in half a day. After that small amount of time invested you will have access to most any program you will ever want. You can always pay for what you down load if you are so inclined so don't view this as an underhanded way of stealing copyrighted stuff.

Last but not least here is Burst!. I like burst because it is not a resource hog AND is very easy to set up and configure to your staisfaction. Read the instructions if you need to here.

Enjoy bit torrents Spit. I don't go to Hollywood or Block Buster at all anymore. Fuck MPAA and RIAA ...

maniclion

Do you have a bootable dos floppy? If not make one from another machine and then boot from the floppy, type FDISK/MBR and enter wait till you get the prompt again then hit ctrl-alt-del take out the floppy and see if it boots into windows.

maniclion

I have Windows 3.11 on a floppy I'll sell it to ya for a dollar

BoneCrusher

I was wondering when you were gonna show up Manic ...

Where's Red at ... he's tardy.

maniclion

spent money on a degree, may as well keep my skills honed.

DOMS

I'll do you one better, I have a copy of DOS version 1.

maniclion

Oh yeah! CP/M 1.0 source code

2900H: DECLARE BDOS LITERALLY '3206H', TRAN LITERALLY '100H';
/* C O N S O L E C O M M A N D P R O C E S S O R (C C P)

COPYRIGHT (C) GARY A. KILDALL
JUNE, 1975
*/

/* **************** LIBRARY PROCEDURES FOR DISKIO ************* */

MON1: PROCEDURE(F,A);
DECLARE F BYTE,
A ADDRESS;
GO TO BDOS;
END MON1;

MON2: PROCEDURE(F,A) BYTE;
DECLARE F BYTE,
A ADDRESS;
GO TO BDOS;
END MON2;

READRDR: PROCEDURE BYTE;
/* READ FROM CURRENTLY ASSIGNED READER DEVICE */
RETURN MON2(3,0);
END READRDR;

READCHAR: PROCEDURE BYTE;
RETURN MON2(1,0);
END READCHAR;

DECLARE
TRUE LITERALLY '1',
FALSE LITERALLY '0',
FOREVER LITERALLY 'WHILE TRUE',
CR LITERALLY '13',
LF LITERALLY '10',
WHAT LITERALLY '63';

PRINTCHAR: PROCEDURE(CHAR);
DECLARE CHAR BYTE;
CALL MON1(2,CHAR);
END PRINTCHAR;

CRLF: PROCEDURE;
CALL PRINTCHAR(CR);
CALL PRINTCHAR(LF);
END CRLF;

PRINT: PROCEDURE(A);
DECLARE A ADDRESS;
/* PRINT THE STRING STARTING AT ADDRESS A UNTIL THE
NEXT DOLLAR SIGN IS ENCOUNTERED */
CALL CRLF;
CALL MON1(9,A);
END PRINT;

READ: PROCEDURE(A);
DECLARE A ADDRESS;
/* READ INTO BUFFER AT A+2 */
CALL MON1(10,A);
END READ;


DECLARE DCNT BYTE;

INITIALIZE: PROCEDURE;
CALL MON1(13,0);
END INITIALIZE;

SELECT: PROCEDURE(D);
DECLARE D BYTE;
CALL MON1(14,D);
END SELECT;

OPEN: PROCEDURE(FCB);
DECLARE FCB ADDRESS;
DCNT = MON2(15,FCB);
END OPEN;

CLOSE: PROCEDURE(FCB);
DECLARE FCB ADDRESS;
DCNT = MON2(16,FCB);
END CLOSE;

SEARCH: PROCEDURE(FCB);
DECLARE FCB ADDRESS;
DCNT = MON2(17,FCB);
END SEARCH;

SEARCHN: PROCEDURE;
DCNT = MON2(18,0);
END SEARCHN;

DELETE: PROCEDURE(FCB);
DECLARE FCB ADDRESS;
CALL MON1(19,FCB);
END DELETE;

DISKREAD: PROCEDURE(FCB) BYTE;
DECLARE FCB ADDRESS;
RETURN MON2(20,FCB);
END DISKREAD;

DISKWRITE: PROCEDURE(FCB) BYTE;
DECLARE FCB ADDRESS;
RETURN MON2(21,FCB);
END DISKWRITE;

MAKE: PROCEDURE(FCB);
DECLARE FCB ADDRESS;
DCNT = MON2(22,FCB);
END MAKE;

RENAME: PROCEDURE(FCB);
DECLARE FCB ADDRESS;
CALL MON1(23,FCB);
END RENAME;

DECLARE (MAXLEN,COMLEN) BYTE, /* MAXIMUM AND CURRENT LENGTH */
COMBUFF(128) BYTE, /* COMMAND BUFFER */
(TCBP,CBP) BYTE; /* BUFFER POINTERS */

READCOM: PROCEDURE;
/* READ INTO COMMAND BUFFER */
MAXLEN = 128;
CALL READ(.MAXLEN);
END READCOM;



/* **************** END OF LIBRARY PROCEDURES ***************** */


BREAK$KEY: PROCEDURE BYTE;
RETURN MON2(11,0);
END BREAK$KEY;

LIFTHEAD: PROCEDURE;
/* EXPLICIT LIFT IF SHUGART 3900 DRIVE */
CALL MON1(12,0);
END LIFTHEAD;

CSELECT: PROCEDURE BYTE;
/* GET CURRENTLY SELECTED DRIVE NUMBER */
RETURN MON2(25,0);
END CSELECT;

MOVE: PROCEDURE(A,B,L);
etc.
etc.

Spitfire

OK, Im a little confused. If I download Linux to a disk, put it into the comp, start it up I can us the linux startup, and use linux. Can I then delete Windows completely?

Prohibition goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation, and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes. Abraham Lincoln

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
Hunter S. Thompson RIP

Spitfire

Oh and Its not my main comp. I was really gonna use it like an external drive.

Prohibition goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation, and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes. Abraham Lincoln

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
Hunter S. Thompson RIP

maniclion

You don't have any Windows disks?

Spitfire

No, I have none, why is it such a problem to be able to download one. At least a start up or something.
Thanks for you help anyway.

Prohibition goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation, and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes. Abraham Lincoln

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
Hunter S. Thompson RIP

Lucifer

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Lucifer

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Lucifer

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Stu

its not exactly easy you can download linux on to cds, itl require 3 or 4 then you have two options; you can either make the first cd bootable or you can use the easy option and make a linux boot disk

once your into linux setup i think you'l have to delete the windows partition completely then you have to create linux swap partition etc you might want to read up on it first

Stu

http://www.bootdisk.com/

Spitfire

True, I will give that a try.
Thanks

Prohibition goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation, and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes. Abraham Lincoln

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
Hunter S. Thompson RIP