[Freedos-user] Another IT person passed away...

2011-10-12 Thread Ralf A. Quint
Was made aware that this last weekend, Dennis Ritchie, the co-inventor of the C programming language and the Unix operating system has passed away... :-( http://boingboing.net/2011/10/12/dennis-ritchie-1941-2011-computer-scientist-unix-co-creator-c-co-inventor.html Ralf --

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing on USB key: Warning: using suspect partition

2011-10-12 Thread Michelle Dupuis
Hey fellow canuck! I have 8 partitions...partition 3 is FREEDOS From: Karen Lewellen [klewel...@shellworld.net] Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2011 7:18 PM To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Installing on USB key: Warning: usi

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing on USB key: Warning: using suspect partition

2011-10-12 Thread Karen Lewellen
hi, Nice to note another list member in Canada. Is that the full capacitor, or do you have other partitions on the key? Karen On Wed, 12 Oct 2011, Michelle Dupuis wrote: > Oh yeah - and I'm using FAT32 (I created a 4GB partition). > > > From: Rugxulo [ru

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing on USB key: Warning: using suspect partition

2011-10-12 Thread Michelle Dupuis
Oh yeah - and I'm using FAT32 (I created a 4GB partition). From: Rugxulo [rugx...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2011 5:06 PM To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Installing on USB key: Warning: using suspect pa

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing on USB key: Warning: using suspect partition

2011-10-12 Thread Michelle Dupuis
Yes - I created the partitions in CentOS' fdisk. So it's ok to get a pagefull of initdisk warnings? After I reformatted (using FD's format command) I somehow screwed up another one of my partitions (or this is just a hell of a coincidence)... ?? From

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing on USB key: Warning: using suspect partition

2011-10-12 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 12-10-2011 23:06, Rugxulo schreef: > Hi, > Which FDISK version were you using? Are you trying to use FAT32 or what? > If all those other operating systems worked flawlessly then there should be no issue, and I'd assume the disk was partitioned and formatted by either some Linux program (P

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing on USB key: Warning: using suspect partition

2011-10-12 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, Which FDISK version were you using? Are you trying to use FAT32 or what? On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 12:30 PM, Michelle Dupuis wrote: > > I have a USB key with lots of OS versions on it for repair.  I decided to > tree FREEDOS on a parition, and although I got it booting, on bootup I get a > s

[Freedos-user] Installing on USB key: Warning: using suspect partition

2011-10-12 Thread Michelle Dupuis
Hi all - I'm new to freedos, but pretty good at DOS & linux. Hopefully someone can help... I have a USB key with lots of OS versions on it for repair. I decided to tree FREEDOS on a parition, and although I got it booting, on bootup I get a screenfull of Warning: using suspect partition error

Re: [Freedos-user] Heat problems of FreeDOS running in VirtualBox

2011-10-12 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 12-10-2011 2:53, Ulrich Hansen schreef: > I have written a description of the heat problems you get if you run > DOS or FreeDOS in VirtualBox. > > It can be found at: http://lazybrowndog.net/freedos/virtualbox/heat Nice guide, and nice description as well. I think FDAPM could help a lot, both