[Coco] Recommendations & Assistance

[Steve Bjork]

The Blue screen could be an driver issue (as already pointed out) or 
more likely a Hardware error.  A XP system is a bit on the old side 
(like a decade or more) and the hardware could be dieing.  (hard drives 
start dieing after five years.)

I would check out the hardware before reinstall windows or anything 
else.  But on that old of a system, you would better off dropping XP and 
switching to a new version of Linux.  (Windows XP support end in less 
than a year.)

Be warned, Linux is not the same as Windows and you will need time to 
learn it.   (And get new software too.)

Steve

On 5/29/2013 4:17 PM, Ed Orbea wrote:
> My Wndows XP system suffered the blue-screen-o-death.
>
> I used it for a DW3 / DW4 Server
> I used VCC and the Winimage tool to create .dsk files that we 
> ultimately used on a real CoCo3
> In your opinions, do I (a) re-install WIndows XP (b) an older version 
> of Windows (i.e. 98) or (c) switch or a Linux distro?
> If I switch to Linux, what is the consensus regarding the distro 
> (ubuntu, mint, suse, etc.)?
>
> Also, I just got my SuperIDE drive from Mark and want to backup the CF 
> card before I do anything. For those of you using OS X Lion or Mtn 
> Lion, what aregument to the 'dd' command are needed (like blocksize, 
> byte switching, skipping, etc.)?
>
> Thanks
>
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