On 5/6/2013 8:09 AM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > But wait, it's worse than that, Jim.... I did, in fact, boot freedos from > the USB key this morning... and when I tried to run it, it announced that > it*can't* be run in DOS mode. > > No, there's no way anyone's going to spring for a Windows license, install > it, do the update, and redo the system as CentOS. run it from hirens usb ? that can boot to a winPE style environment. -- john r pierce 37N 122W somewhere on the middle of the left coast