reynaldo@athena.mit.edu (Rey Villarreal) (05/12/91)
Ok here are the bare fats. I have a budget of ~$3200. I am comparing a 386 and and an Amiga3000. I am leaning towards a 386. I would like opinions about: 1) Whether to get a 386 or wait for the price of the 486 to come down. 2) Opinions regarding the best components(i.e. Monitor, video card) 3) Which is the best mail order firm(i.e. cheapest and somewhat reliable) 4) Just general things to watch for ( I am a former amiga 500 owner am incredible confused about the ibm world. Please respond by email. Thanks a few words of advice may help me to avoid blowing a few thousand bucks. ---rey
acs034@gmuvax2.gmu.edu (B. Latterri Sivaraman) (06/14/91)
I have a small problem. I am trying to upgrade my ibm 386 compat to DOS 4.01 from DOS 3.3. I have an 120 meg IDE hard drive with Western Digital controller. I want to create 1 large 120 meg partition. I used fdisk from DOS 3.3 to delete my logical drives and then my extended partition, then my primary partition. Then I booted my system with DOS 4.01 and Created on Primary partition of 120 meg. Then reformat the disk drive and transfer the DOS 4.01 system files to the hard drive. It reveals I have 130 meg free. Nothing unusual. Then I reboot the system and I see I have only 33 meg free on my C: drive instead of 120. The weird part is that the extended partitions that I deleted with DOS 3.3 are STILL THERE. And then sure enough I checked my files and they were all STILL THERE, and all the programs that I had on the extended partition worked. Nothing had changed, except for the fact that drive C was empty except for the system files. All this after formatted the ENTIRE disk Does anyone have any idea what I am doing wrong? I followed all the instructions in the DOS manual perfectly. Replies by email or this newsgroup. Thanks in advance Ken L. Sivaraman acs034@gmuvax2.gmu.edu BSIV@GMUVAX.GMU.EDU BSIV@GMUVAX.BITNET