Zipslack problem
Gregory Nowak
greg at romuald.net.eu.org
Sat Apr 17 00:51:24 EDT 2004
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Are you doing this from a dos box, or from ms-dos mode? You need to
start zipslack from ms-dos mode, not from a dos box under windows.
Greg
On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 12:51:05AM -0400, Jes and guide dog Harley wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'm trying to test zipslack on a system I have running that is a pentium 3, 450 mhz, with a 20 gb hard drive and 128 mb of ram. I
> unzipped the zipslack directory in the root level directory of my windows drive, and edited linux.bat to point to my partition. I
> copied the appropriate speakup kernel bz image from the speakup.s file and renamed it to vmlinuz, however, when I type linux.bat
> at a dos prompt the computer locks up and I get no speakup output. I did notice one of my start up messages saying the cpu was in
> v86 mode and I thought you had to disable this for zipslack to work. Also, himem.sys and emm386.exe seem to be okay, unless I
> missed something somewhere.
> I'd appreciate any help, I am using a double talk lt synthesizer. Thanks a lot.
> Jes
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