[Freedos-user] re: Announce: EDIT 0.7d preview...

2005-07-22 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Johnson, > Glad you make new version of EDIT, but since Joe still releasing his > "own" EDIT, better NOT to have too many "forked" version here. The problem is that Joe is very often away. For example you can KNOW that there is EDIT 0.82, but his homepage still only mentions the 4/2004 versio

Re: [Freedos-user] Announce: EDIT 0.7d preview / doc-and-bug-help needed

2005-07-22 Thread Johnson Lam
On Sat, 23 Jul 2005 02:34:27 +0200 (MEST), you wrote: Hi Eric, Sorry for me not being "smooth" talking ... >Hi, thanks to Bothie helping me out while there are problems >with uploading things to my page, you can now enjoy the new >EDIT 0.7d PREVIEW version :-). It is a preview version because >t

[Freedos-user] re: More FreeDOS FDISK tests - failure is repeatable

2005-07-22 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, while it would be easy to remove the "write new empty partition table if reading the partition table failed" nonsense from FDISK, would it be against the FreeDOS SPECS to just replace it by, say, XFDISK? I mean, XFDISK is open source. It only does not LOOK like the old MS DOS user interface, b

[Freedos-user] Announce: EDIT 0.7d preview / doc-and-bug-help needed

2005-07-22 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, thanks to Bothie helping me out while there are problems with uploading things to my page, you can now enjoy the new EDIT 0.7d PREVIEW version :-). It is a preview version because there are several help text things which are still to be fixed, so if you want to support your FreeDOS developers

Re: [Freedos-user] Is there a maximum partition size in the FreeDOS kernel?

2005-07-22 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 22-Июл-2005 10:18 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carl William Spitzer IV) wrote to FreeDOS : >> kn> What's the size limit on a partition for the FreeDOS kernel? >> 2 Gb for FAT16 partition, 2 Tb for the FAT32 partition. But all >> programs, which use only 32-bit arithmetics and use plain old DOS fun

Re: [Freedos-user] More FreeDOS FDISK tests - failure is repeatable

2005-07-22 Thread Michael Devore
At 08:36 PM 7/22/2005 +0100, Gerry Hickman wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By the way, I consider this bug extremely serious. I agree, and Michael's post would appear to confirm that FDISK is far from read-only, but has this bug always been there, or is it only in recent development builds

Re: [Freedos-user] More FreeDOS FDISK tests - failure is repeatable

2005-07-22 Thread Gerry Hickman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By the way, I consider this bug extremely serious. I agree, and Michael's post would appear to confirm that FDISK is far from read-only, but has this bug always been there, or is it only in recent development builds? If it's always been there, why have more people

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS won't boot correctly from hard disk

2005-07-22 Thread kd4d
Hi: Thanks. I know all of these workarounds. The problem was an apparent bug in an older version of FreeDOS sys.com. Mark > On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 17:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello, all: > > > > Back to my other laptop and other problem. I am unable to install > > FreeDOS on my 477 M

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS kicks some serious Ass!

2005-07-22 Thread Carl William Spitzer IV
On Mon, 2005-07-18 at 17:02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Yeah, some people just don't like WindowsXP. It's hard to > buy a new computer without it installed, though! > File a microsoft refund form. Then install your favorite dos and your favorite distro and enjoy. -- +-

Re: [Freedos-user] Is there a maximum partition size in the FreeDOS kernel?

2005-07-22 Thread Carl William Spitzer IV
On Sat, 2005-07-16 at 15:22, Arkady V.Belousov wrote: > Hi! > > 16-Июл-2005 00:07 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote to > freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: > > > kn> What's the size limit on a partition for the FreeDOS kernel? > > 2 Gb for FAT16 partition, 2 Tb for the FAT32 par

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS won't boot correctly from hard disk

2005-07-22 Thread Carl William Spitzer IV
On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 17:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, all: > > Back to my other laptop and other problem. I am unable to install > FreeDOS on my 477 MB FAT32 partition. This is a DIFFERENT laptop > entirely. There is an extended partition, and an NTFS partition. > The FAT32 partition i

Re: [Freedos-user] Can FDISK destroy partitions using the examine partitions option?

2005-07-22 Thread Carl William Spitzer IV
On Sun, 2005-07-17 at 16:36, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, all: > > I just suggested that someone who was having trouble with > NTFS4DOS not recognizing an NTFS partition run fdisk with the > development kernel. When was your last virus check? When you did a clean install did you make a boot

Re: [Freedos-user] More FreeDOS FDISK tests - failure is repeatable

2005-07-22 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Anyone know if Brian is on fd-user list? or otherwise been notified of these issues? I don't think it will be too difficult to correct (warn/abort at least) so maybe if I get time after work tommorrow I'll make a patch available to make fdisk safer to use. Thanks for reviewing the code, Jere