[Trlog] Fwd: Re: Dual boot computer help

[Mark Bailey]

Good day, Doc:

This is a good idea - you can also load MSDOS onto a bootable CD.  I 
worked out a way to do that a few years back - see 
http://www.k1ea.com/hints/Creating_a_Bootable_DOS_CD_V%201.5.pdf.  I 
think the free software I used is still available.

The problem that CAN come up is where to put the log and setup files.  
The USB sticks/USB floppy drives can be too slow to use for the log in 
real-time.  If the hard disk is NTFS (typical for newer versions of 
Windows), you can't save the logs there either.

Because of the log storage issues, I find the dual-boot easier to work 
with.  YMMV!  :-)

73,

Mark


On 11/8/2011 9:25 PM, Tree wrote:
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> From: D. R. Evans<N7DR at arrl.net>
> Date: Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 8:15 AM
> Subject: Fwd: Re: [Trlog] Dual boot computer help
> To: Tree<tree at kkn.net>
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> I thought this might be a useful post, but as usual it got rejected:
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> Re: [Trlog] Dual boot computer help.eml
> Subject:
> Re: [Trlog] Dual boot computer help
> From:
> "D. R. Evans"<N7DR at arrl.net>
> Date:
> 11/08/2011 07:54 AM
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> Michael Gulbranson said the following at 11/07/2011 08:20 PM :
>
>> Hi All:
>>
>> I plan to upgrade my contesting computer from W98SE to XP yet keep 6.22
>> DOS for TR for cw contests. Does anyone have any dual boot experience
>> and would be willing to mentor me in the process? I use DX4WIN for
>> logging and Writelog for phone and rtty contests. Or is like pushing a
>> rope uphill?
> You don't need to do that. You should be able to run TRLOG under FreeDOS
> booted from a CD. That way you don't have to have any kind of dual-boot
> installed. That's what I do, and it works perfectly here.
>
>   73 -- Doc  N7DR
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> -- Web: http://www.sff.net/people/N7DR
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