AstroM RIB blinks communications fails

[Anderegg]

I am trying to get an old AstroM RSS to work. Took a while but it runs on my old PII laptop with XP. The issue I have comes when trying to read the radio. The RIB led blinks showing activity, but then it says communications failed. I am using the stupid DOS "box" on XP which I believe is the problem. How do I exit Windows and open DOS to run this program correctly?

Paul

[Anderegg]

I did some research and found I need a DOS bootable CDROM. I have spent several hours downloading garbage, and trying to simply find a DOS bootable CDROM image to burn and boot from.......why is it impossible to find a simple DOS bootable CDROM image? The last one I tried boots into DOS, but it wont let me use anything thats not A drive...cant even access MRSS.

Where can I get a bootable image without having to "build" or "create" one, which seems 99% of the links have.

Paul

[Jim202]

I am trying to get an old AstroM RSS to work. Took a while but it runs on my old PII laptop with XP. The issue I have comes when trying to read the radio. The RIB led blinks showing activity, but then it says communications failed. I am using the stupid DOS "box" on XP which I believe is the problem. How do I exit Windows and open DOS to run this program correctly?

Paul

Set you computer's BIOS to look for a floppy boot first, then the hard drive. Put a boot floppy into the A' drive and restart the system.

If you don't have a floppy drive, add one. It is so much easier that trying to screw around with a dual boot on the hard drive.

Jim

[tvsjr]

Bootdisk.com - grab a DOS image and load to CD or USB. I have a Win98 DOS stick that stays in my backpack for flashing old BIOS, etc.

[Anderegg]

"1. Most of the files above are disk images. Download the file to your C: drive, put a fresh disk in your A: drive, then click on the file to create the bootdisk."

The laptop is a 1999 model, "Designed for Windows 98", cannot add a floppy drive. The only DOS boot image I could find for emulating a floppy, wont recognize the C:\ where MRSS is located. Anyone know a link where I can simply download an ISO, then burn to CDROM, then boot and type cd c:\mrss\astro\astrom to launch the Motorola software?

Paul

[Anderegg]

I would like to add I have NO PROBLEM turning this laptop into dedicated MRSS DOS machine......

Paul

[tvsjr]

It won't recognize C:\? Is that the same drive you have Windows on? It's likely formatted NTFS, which DOS doesn't grok. Put MRSS on the boot disk, or create a FAT32 partition on the hard drive.

[jmr061]

If that radio has been touched with anything past CPS 2 it won't work with dos anyway.

Is there a purpose to wanting to use DOS rss?

Jason