Linux without sighted help

[Jude DaShiell]

If you could do something with that file, it oughtn't be empty after a 
windows installation.



On Sat, 26 Jan 2008, Mike Gorse wrote:

> 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.
>> 
>> 
>>
>>  On Sat, 26 Jan 2008, Kristoffer Gustafsson wrote:
>> 
>> >   Can you do that even with win xp?
>> > 
>> >   I didn't believe that.
>> > 
>> >   /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.
>
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