From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dan Olson Subject: Elks testing Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 13:43:40 -0800 (PST) Sender: linux-8086-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20021205133648.J51701-100000@agora.rdrop.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Id: Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Linux 8086 Hi, I really have no idea why this has taken me so long, but I finally downloaded the latest ELKS disk images and made a floppy and booted up my XT. First off, I found something interesting. I have a high density controller with it's own BIOS, as well as a SCSI controller, which seemed to give me trouble when I left off last time. Well, I was able to boot without the SCSI card installed, no problem. Then I install the controller, and ELKS still finds my hard drive and my floppy drive type, but it can no longer autoprobe the floppy type. Of course booting from floppy, I know that it still functions. Maybe a BIOS conflict of some sort? Anyway, with ELKS running, I had to pause for a minute and ask myself why I hadn't been using it before now! Everything looks great, the only problem...I don't have any ELKS software! I remember mention of a terminal emulator, is that still around somewhere? I'll dig around and see what I can find, but if someone knows, that would be great. I guess I still need a serial card anyway, but ideally I'll use the system for e-mail reading if nothing else! Dan