Similar to Tom's comment elsewhere, your email is longer than my free time to read it. So I'll pick only a few things to reply to, and let others comment on the rest. :-)
On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 7:04 PM Eric Auer <e.a...@jpberlin.de> wrote: > Hi! > > > (Eric replied to me off-list about the "Installing FreeDOS 1.3 RC4" > > video, but this is probably interesting to other FreeDOS users, so I'm > > replying to the list) > > Okay for me. Instead of making small remarks off-list, I can > do a more verbose review here. I hope nobody gets bored :-) I get too much email as it is. And it takes away from my day job if I try to reply to everything. I have an autoreply on my jh...@freedos.org email to let people know I am slow to reply to email. That's why I mentioned to you a few weeks ago that if you email me off-list about something that should be on the email lists, I'll probably just reply to the email lists instead. > > The error you're referring to at time index 0:58 in the video is > > because the disk image is entirely blank. The disk has not been > > partitioned yet, so there's no partition table. The error is: > > > >> - InitDiskillegal partition table - drive 00 sector 0 > >> illegal partition table - drive 00 sector 0 > >> illegal partition table - drive 00 sector 0 > >> illegal partition table - drive 00 sector 0 > > That does NOT seem correct as a warning about a MBR full of > 0 bytes, as filesystem type 0 stands for empty partitions. > > But maybe your MBR was not full of 0 bytes? Or maybe I > have misunderstood something here? I just used this to create a new 2MB image file: $ qemu-img create f.img 2M And yes, it's full of zeroes. > >> hopefully the bugs in the default config > >> and autoexec will be fixed, too. > > > Can you be more specific? > > See my 2021-05-03 mail on freedos-devel, > "Distro autoexec/config wishes for 1.3rc4" > [..] Ah, I did not remember that one email from six weeks ago, and make the connection to what you had said in your reply. :-) Jim _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
