Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2010-05-24 Thread Alain Mouette
Bleah ia easy to remove: 1) boot from a freedos floppy 2) FDISK /MBR it is in the MBR, so if you rewrite it, the virus is gone. I had problems with Bleah in the past (sent it to some clients) and I got knowledge of it. BTW, it is a harmless virus... Alain Em 24-05-2010 19:03, Marcos Favero Fl

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2010-05-24 Thread Marcos Favero Florence de Barros
Hi, This is just to report how things evolved with regard to disk partitioning and formatting. I certainly learned how to do it. Thanks again to several list members who helped! However, the story did not end there. Disks would not work as expected, and corrupted files kept appearing. After for

Re: [Freedos-user] parallel port problems

2010-05-24 Thread Liam Proven
On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 3:32 PM, Ray wrote: > At 15:01 24/05/2010 +0100, you wrote: >>On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Ray wrote: >> > am having trouble with a new install of freedos printing to a parallel >> > printer - previously it work ok but after a new computer was installed >> > we have n

Re: [Freedos-user] parallel port problems

2010-05-24 Thread Ray
At 16:21 24/05/2010 +0200, you wrote: >On 05/24/2010 12:04 PM, Ray wrote: > > am having trouble with a new install of freedos printing to a parallel > > printer - previously it work ok but after a new computer was installed > > we have no access to printer - the mainboard is a gigabyte am3 with n

Re: [Freedos-user] parallel port problems

2010-05-24 Thread Ray
At 15:01 24/05/2010 +0100, you wrote: >On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Ray wrote: > > am having trouble with a new install of freedos printing to a parallel > > printer - previously it work ok but after a new computer was installed > > we have no access to printer - the mainboard is a gigabyte a

Re: [Freedos-user] parallel port problems

2010-05-24 Thread bwspos
On 05/24/2010 12:04 PM, Ray wrote: > am having trouble with a new install of freedos printing to a parallel > printer - previously it work ok but after a new computer was installed > we have no access to printer - the mainboard is a gigabyte am3 with no > onboard lpt port - a 3rd party lpt card w

Re: [Freedos-user] parallel port problems

2010-05-24 Thread Liam Proven
On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Ray wrote: > am having trouble with a new install of freedos printing to a parallel > printer - previously it work ok but after a new computer was installed > we have no access to printer - the mainboard is a gigabyte am3 with no > onboard lpt port - a 3rd party l

Re: [Freedos-user] parallel port problems

2010-05-24 Thread bwspos
Just had the same problem with a replacement MSI motherboard & a Sunnix PCI Parallel Port card at a customer site. The hardware installer tried 2 each of both the MB & LPT cards. The Sunnix card was sent to me for testing and it worked fine on our test systems (oldish P4 Gigabyte MBs). On 05

[Freedos-user] parallel port problems

2010-05-24 Thread Ray
am having trouble with a new install of freedos printing to a parallel printer - previously it work ok but after a new computer was installed we have no access to printer - the mainboard is a gigabyte am3 with no onboard lpt port - a 3rd party lpt card was installed prior to installing freedos - t

Re: [Freedos-user] X-comments to: Formatting 6 GB hard disk in FAT16

2010-05-24 Thread dos386
> Perhaps you tried a partition too large, for the FAT16 > exact maximum (from Microsoft documentation) is 65524 > clusters, which means a little under 2 GB with 32 KB > size clusters. I suggest you try four partitions. Some OS'es (EDR-DOS, Windaube NT) reportedly support FAT16 with cluster size o