Tnx fer all the responses. I made a change to the msdos.sys file and now the
machine boots directly to the c:\ prompt and NA appears to run fine. Many
thanks to Jon AA1K who sent the instructions on this. I have copied them and
added them to this thread if anyone else needs them. Now to find places for
the W9XT card and my serial/par port card and reconfigure all this as the
NEW, HIGH powered, internet capable, networkable W8CAR supercomputer--- I
should be ready to contest again in 2004!!
Thanks again guys for the rapid and helpful responses-once again proving
that NA, it's author and it's users are "da best"
73 and Happy TG
Dan W8CAR
----- Original Message -----
From: "David A. Pruett" <k8cc@comcast.net>
To: "Dan Kovatch" <w8car@buckeye-express.com>; <na-user@contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 5:36 PM
Subject: Re: [NA-User] NA and WIn 98 DOS
> At 08:11 AM 11/26/02 -0500, Dan Kovatch wrote:
> >Has anyone run NA on a windows 98 machine under the Dos prompt? Just
> >loaded the new na 1058 on my windows 98 machine and got the dread error 8
> >message?
>
> Two of the K8CC logging computers are used Acers which were taken out of
> service from a school district. The reseller wiped the hard drives and
> appears to have reformatted them from a Win98 boot disk. The computers
> boot to a command line prompt and there is no Windows GUI, but they are
> running under whatever the Win 98 core is. We've used these two computers
> on the 28 MHz station in ARRL DX CW and CQWW CW this year and they have
> worked perfectly.
>
> I know K9TM regularly runs NA under Win98 successfully.
>
> Are you sure it was Error 8? Without boring everyone with the details, I
> don't think that one is possible.(Dave is right here it was not error 8)
>
> One thing you might check is how much free memory you have in the Win 98
> DOS prompt - depending on the machine, you might not have enough DOS
memory
> to run NA.
>
> Dave
>
>
> Dan,
Here's the info on booting directly to DOS .... I did this a year or so ago
on two different computers I have in the ham shack. One thing that was
different was to launch Windows 98 I have to type "WIN98" not just "WIN"
....I think this may be because mine are Win98 upgrades (from win95) and
just typing "Win" launches Win95.
MSDOS.SYS is normally set as a "hidden" file and what the commands below do
are "unhide" it so you can make the changes and then hide it again.
73/Jon AA1K
>
>Hi Guys,
>
>Anthony, KG2MY, kindly walked me through this procedure to make my Win98
>computer boot into DOS directly.
>
>1) Get to the C:\
>2) At the C:\, type ATTRIB -H -R -S MSDOS.SYS
>3) At the C:\ type EDIT MSDOS.SYS
>4) In the MSDOS.SYS file, change the
>BOOTGUI=1
>to
>BOOTGUI=0
>5) After BOOTGUI=0,
> Add the line: Logo=0
>(this prevents the Windows 98 from appearing)
>6) Save the file and exit to the C:\
>7) At the C:\, type ATTRIB +H +R +S MSDOS.SYS
>8) At the C:\ type EXIT
>
>9) Reboot the computer.
>
>This worked for my Win98 computer (which now boots directly into DOS).
When
>I want to go to back into Windows 98, I simply type WIN.
>
>I hope this helps out some of you.
>
>73 & GL!
>
>Bob KQ2M
>
>
>
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