DOS IN WINDOWS XP

ASTROAL · Post by **ASTROAL** » Sun Aug 24, 2003 5:48 pm

Laptop being fixed,tried to install rss floppy disk in command prompt in windows xp but got message your pc has 0 bytes and you need a minimum of 3.0 mb of extended memory to run rss.Where do you install the rss software?

ServerTech · Post by **ServerTech** » Sun Aug 24, 2003 6:22 pm

Installing a DOS based software program on WinXP? You can't. They're two different OS's.

Also, if you're running XP, the machine you're using will be much to fast for programming radios via RSS. It's best that you either wait for your laptop to get fixed, or buy another laptop.

A quick search turned up the following thread among many others which will go into much more detail about this subject:

http://batboard.batlabs.com/viewtopic.p ... ng+windows

Russ

RocketNJ · Post by **RocketNJ** » Sun Aug 24, 2003 6:25 pm

You can browse the floppy drive and right click the install.exe file. You can set the extended memory to 4096.

What dos software are you trying to run in XP? Most will not run correctly as XP does not let the software talk directly to the com port.

Quantar, DIU, and AstroTAC software seems to run fine under XP but most of the DOS portable and mobile software will not.

If your hard drives are formatted FAT 16 or FAT32 then I suggest going to http://www.bootdisk.com and downloading a dos boot disk. Boot from that and then install the rss to the hard drive.

If the drives are NTFS then you will probably have to wait until the laptop comes back from repair.

George

RKG · Post by **RKG** » Sun Aug 24, 2003 7:16 pm

DOS-based RSS should never be installed under Windows, including in a so-called "DOS Window" under Windows, and including under a so-called "DOS Prompt" under Windows.

DOS-based RSS must always be installed on a machine running native DOS (MS-DOS 6.22 or PC-DOS 7.0 are the two that I know are reliable). This is either a dedicated machine, or a machine that uses "System Commander" to run multiple operating systems in separate partitions (under separate partition tables).

The reasons for this rule are many. They include the fact that many newer machines have CPU-clock speeds that are too high, but this is not the primary reason. The primary reason is that the RSS takes direct control of the UART chip, and does some rather fancy stuff with it. Windows, including so-called "DOS Windows" and "DOS Prompts," does not permit direct application access to the UART; Windows will intercept UART service requests and manipulate them in ways that usually end up corrupting the radio you are trying to program.

ASTROMODAT · Post by **ASTROMODAT** » Fri Aug 29, 2003 5:42 pm

Bite the bullet and go with CPS! If you ever send your radio in to The Depot for repair, you'll be forced to switch to CPS anyway. You're fighting a losing battle.

Larry

P.S. The next release of CPS (post 3.0) will no longer ship with the old DOS disks. They are killing it.

Post by **/\/\y 2 cents** » Fri Aug 29, 2003 8:44 pm

get a 286 or 386 for radios and everything else use a MAC W/OS X life will never be the same! Screw windows or dos unless someone has a gat 2 your dome. if you deal w/ motorola comm equip. you obviously have no tolerance for inferioriority, why, take second place ewhen it comes to your computing experience. Remember, Windows is nothing but a overblown DOS shell with some pictures