Linux without sighted help

[Mike Gorse]

My io.sys and /msdos.sys are empty on my laptop (running XP).

I'm almost positive that those instructions only apply to 95/98/ME. 
NT/2k/XP/Vista are fully 32-bit and don't run on top of DOS.

-- Mike Gorse / AIM:linvortex / http://mgorse.freeshell.org --

On Sat, 26 Jan 2008, Jude DaShiell wrote:

> If the windows xp msdos.sys file is about 2k in size then yes you can.
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> On Sat, 26 Jan 2008, Kristoffer Gustafsson wrote:
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>>  Can you do that even with win xp?
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>>  I didn't believe that.
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>>  /Kristoffer
>>  ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jude DaShiell"
>>  <jdashiel at shellworld.net>
>>  To: "Linux for blind general discussion" <blinux-list at redhat.com>
>>  Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2008 7:30 PM
>>  Subject: Re: Linux without sighted help
>> 
>> 
>> >   If it's a dell machine push down and hold the delete key right after 
>> >   you
>> >   turn the machine on.  You won't get windows coming up but will get into
>> >   cmos.  Other things to do.  Change msdos.sys file on that box so you 
>> >   stop
>> >   off in dos first.  There are dos screen readers free for download that
>> >   will work with hardware synthesizers and that way you get more control
>> >   over your equipment.  I did this a long time ago, maybe get sighted 
>> >   help
>> >   to do this too it's not hard.  Run in dos and type cmd attrib +w 
>> >   msdos.sys
>> >   and hit return.  Then use notepad to edit msdos.sys and change 
>> >   BootGui=1
>> >   to BootGui=0 then save the file as a text file and in another dos 
>> >   command
>> >   session cmd move c:\msdos.sys.txt c:\msdos.sys and then reboot the
>> >   machine.  Dos comes up and everything goes quiet so type win and hit 
>> >   enter
>> >   to go into windows until you can get a hardware screen reader and a 
>> >   screen
>> >   reader program for it.