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Boisy Pitre boisy at tee-boy.com
Tue Mar 24 21:34:34 EDT 2009


On Mar 24, 2009, at 2:34 PM, Roger Taylor wrote:

> At 02:00 PM 3/24/2009, you wrote:
>> Tell you what. I'm not even going to waste time asking any more  
>> questions.
>> This is the fourth time someone has had a snide comment, and since  
>> I don't
>> seem to know how to ask an intelligent question, I won't bother the  
>> list
>> with my babbling.
>>
>> Thank you.
>
> Bill, don't run off.  I think you hit the all-time most unpopular  
> statement and it rattled a few cranky people, that's all.  No biggie  
> around here and nothing personal.
>
> Just saying " It doesn't work " doesn't leave any starting point for  
> someone to help you get it working.
>
> HOWEVER, if anybody agrees with you about the NitrOS-9 disks being a  
> pain in the butt, it's me.  Wow.  Only 10+ different versions/ 
> formats/builds, and if that isn't enough to scare you, putting in a  
> 35-track SS copy of one of the .dsks and getting the OK prompt after  
> typing DOS is just too much for me.
>
> But that's not it!  Let's say you actually found a .dsk that starts  
> to boot.  You see a long string of "......"'s following by the  
> Crashola message.  Have you got to that point yet?  :)

Hey Roger, when you get stuck on these seemingly insurmountable and  
intractable NitrOS-9 problems, feel free to ask questions to the list;  
many people here have successfully gotten NitrOS-9 to run on their  
systems, and can help you get past these issues that you're having  
with booting.

Boisy




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