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Are all your files in the d:\dir with the unrar.exe and.dll??

Brian
AwPhuch

Brian -

Sorry to be such a pain!!

All the files are in the d: directory. The unrar program had three files. I placed all of them in the d: dir. I can't remember if one was a .dll or not.

When I created the rar files I checked the option you mentioned in the advanced tab. All my files are named DSL.R01. DSL.R02, etc.....

Did I do something wrong? Thanks

Chris

Then change the command from unrar t unrar.rar to unrar t DSL.R01 (unless you have a DSL.rar file then use that)

Did that help

Brian
AwPhuch

Brian -

I can now say that I have DSL on this old laptop! Thank you. I would like to know how you got the resolution to work. I am just getting a screen with lines even after choosing 640x480. My laptop has 16mb like yours. Any help is appreciated. Thanks

Chris

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I got all the files onto the C drive, and everything looks good.
I make the floppy drive and when I go to boot up, I get BOOT FAILED.

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Double check your BIOS settings...
Im sure that machine should be able to run...

There are other threads that say 486 without coprocessor wont run the current kernel since it doesnt have mathcoprocessor support built in

I have the same problem but my situation is different. The laptop is a 486DX/486DX4 100mhz machine with 11 megs ram. It says that the numeric processor is present. I to get the boot failed problem. Is there anyway to boot using loadlin.exe or similar (don't quite remember the name) if i extracted the floppy to the harddrive?

Any help would be nice thanks

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