[Freedos-user] Packet drivers/Automatic setup

Hi. I am requesting that everyone with a little spare time and a PCI network card that works with a clearly redistributable packet driver (in the licence, like a crynwr packet driver), to email me their PCIsleep output and either tell me what driver it works with if it is in the crynwr packet driv

Re: [Freedos-user] NTFS4DOS Divide error - FreeDOS but not MS-DOS 7.1

At 01:29 AM 7/26/2005 +, Mark Bailey wrote: I have another FreeDOS problem with NTFS4DOS. This one DOES NOT affect MS-DOS (I think it's called 7.1...version from Windows98SE). The problem is a divide error. Without himem.exe loaded, I get Divide error Happens on all the machines all the

[Freedos-user] NTFS4DOS Divide error - FreeDOS but not MS-DOS 7.1

Good day, all: I have another FreeDOS problem with NTFS4DOS. This one DOES NOT affect MS-DOS (I think it's called 7.1...version from Windows98SE). The problem is a divide error. Without himem.exe loaded, I get Divide error Divide error . (lots of these, very quickly, followed by a repeating

[Freedos-user] re: FDISK MBR and FORMAT questions

Hi again (wow, what a lot of traffic today, sigh...), > > I wanted to make ABSOLUTELY CLEAR that nothing must ever automatically > > do FDISK /MBR with as only exception a CUSTOM install disk for unattended > > install on known-empty / known-not-to-have-any-useful-MBR-program systems. > too bad,

Re: [Freedos-user] FDISK MBR and FORMAT questions

Hi Bernd, My FDISK says that it's version 1.3.0 ?? If I go to this site: check fdisk130.zip at http://www.23cc.com/programs/ Thanks for the link, but can anyone explain how ordinary users like me are supposed to find these updated files when there's no lin

Re: [Freedos-user] re: FDISK MBR and FORMAT questions

Hi Bernd, too bad, people want to have a working system being set up for them. if MS FDISK does alter MBR, then our FDISK should do so also. To be fair, FreeDOS gives options to write MBRs. The only reason I didn't choose this option in my experiments today was because I was testing for the

Re: [Freedos-user] re: FDISK MBR and FORMAT questions

Hi All, Thanks for the excellent help with my questions. I'd just like to clarify things: I'm not saying that FDISK _should_ create anything automatically, I was just surprised that it didn't. The other thread implied that running FDISK without a valid MBR would cause creation of one, but Er

Re: [Freedos-user] re: Control cluster size with Format

Hi Eric, By default it seems to choose the cluster size based on how big the hard drive is. No, it trusts the kernel to select a sane cluster size, and indeed the kernel selects a suitable cluster size for your disk size. Hehe. formatting a 2Gb partition, the FORMAT command told me the clus

Re: [Freedos-user] re: FDISK MBR and FORMAT questions

Eric Auer schreef: I wanted to make ABSOLUTELY CLEAR that nothing must ever automatically do FDISK /MBR with as only exception a CUSTOM install disk for unattended install on known-empty / known-not-to-have-any-useful-MBR-program systems. too bad, people want to have a working system being set

[Freedos-user] re: FDISK MBR and FORMAT questions

Hi... > replace on disk error is dangerous, replace-on-missing AA55 is something > FDISK can ask the user in interactive mode, or batchfile can do FDISK /MBR. I wanted to make ABSOLUTELY CLEAR that nothing must ever automatically do FDISK /MBR with as only exception a CUSTOM install disk for un

Re: [Freedos-user] re: FDISK MBR and FORMAT questions

Eric Auer schreef: It ends with 55 aa, and even then, you know nothing about whether it contains a WORKING boot program. The MBR contains TWO things: The boot program and the partition data. FDISK had the VERY stupid function to delete BOTH and replace them with a fresh copy if the 55 aa was miss

[Freedos-user] re: FDISK MBR and FORMAT questions

>any valid MBR starts with AA55, so if no AA55, FDISK /MBR might be done >automatically. Am I correct, Eric? Heck, no! Not at all! It ends with 55 aa, and even then, you know nothing about whether it contains a WORKING boot program. The MBR contains TWO things: The boot program and the partition

Re: [Freedos-user] Control cluster size with Format

Gerry Hickman schreef: By default it seems to choose the cluster size based on how big the hard drive is. Testing on a 40Gb hard drive today, and creating and formatting a 2Gb partition, the FORMAT command told me the cluster size was 64K (!), and that Win9x and MS-DOS would not be able to use

Re: [Freedos-user] FDISK MBR and FORMAT questions

Gerry Hickman schreef: Hi, My FDISK says that it's version 1.3.0 ?? If I go to this site: check fdisk130.zip at http://www.23cc.com/programs/ 1. What happened to the "automatic" creation of an MBR discussed in the other thread? It didn't seem to happen? a

[Freedos-user] re: FDISK MBR and FORMAT questions

Hi Gerry, > it says FDISK 1.2.1, and if I go to freedos.org and click > "software|base|fdisk" it says 1.2.1 as well, so why does mine say 1.3.0? The 1.3.0-beta version is popular as it is used on UltimateBootCD. It has debug features activated and it has a small fix in LBA BIOS detection, not m

[Freedos-user] re: Control cluster size with Format

Hi Gerry, > Is there any way to control the cluster size with FreeDOS FORMAT? No > By default it seems to choose the cluster size based on how big the hard > drive is. No, it trusts the kernel to select a sane cluster size, and indeed the kernel selects a suitable cluster size for your disk s

[Freedos-user] Control cluster size with Format

Hi, Is there any way to control the cluster size with FreeDOS FORMAT? (Other than the secret /a switch which only seems to offer 4K boundaries). By default it seems to choose the cluster size based on how big the hard drive is. Testing on a 40Gb hard drive today, and creating and formatting

[Freedos-user] FDISK MBR and FORMAT questions

Hi, I have been testing FreeDOS FDISK and FORMAT today. I'm impressed by these programs - they offer more than the MS-DOS versions. FDISK allows command line processing and FORMAT has a secret /z switch to align on 4k boundaries. However, I'm confused by some things: My FDISK says that it's

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

Eric Auer wrote: Hi Jeremy, thanks for the updates but... - Changes from 1.2.1 version (see fdisk.diff at same location): From Eric, it has some changes to carry usage in extended int13 detection. No, I just sent you a minimized (i.e. excluding changes in whitespace and comments) between F

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

Hi Jeremy, thanks for the updates but... > - Changes from 1.2.1 version (see fdisk.diff at same location): > From Eric, it has some changes to carry usage in extended int13 detection. No, I just sent you a minimized (i.e. excluding changes in whitespace and comments) between FDISK 1.2.1 and 1.3

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

Kenneth J. Davis wrote: ... I have a work in progress towards fixing these issues of fdisk, to try my current build - http://www.fdos.org/kernel/test/fdisk.exe I have updated the fdisk executable above. - Changes from 1.2.1 version (see fdisk.diff at same location): From Eric, it has some chan

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

--- Gerry Hickman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's just I have to build 30 PCs in coming weeks, > plus some production > servers, and plan to use FreeDOS FDISK to partition > them. I was a bit > worried reading about this bug, but all my hard > drives are brand new, so > should be OK. I wou