On Fri, 03 Feb 2006 18:46:34 +, you wrote:
Hi,
>This hard disk has something like 30 GBytes of data and WindowsXP
>operating system, not less than 800 MBytes. And, it's a laptop with
>a small disk drive! :-)
I assume you "backup" everything except the pre-install partition and
WinXP's sou
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From: Johnson Lam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> On Fri, 3 Feb 2006 12:24:28 +0100 (MET), you wrote:
>
> For example, we may need to GHOST the whole
> hard disk before we start, I believe that's rather small, after
> compression it should be less tha
On Fri, 3 Feb 2006 12:24:28 +0100 (MET), you wrote:
Hi Eric,
>Hi Johnson, I did not intend to insult people, I just
>wanted to say "most people will not want to delete Windows
>if it came preinstalled with their PC" / "Most people do
>not download DOS to 'clean' their PC and remove Windows".
You
Eric Auer wrote:
I noticed that DOS / Win3 boots quite slow from USB (slow
BIOS drivers).
Yes, there seems to be disparity among PC and data-stick vendors. I'd be
interested to know what make/model/BIOS/stick you are seeing this slow
behavior on?
I've been testing Dell client/server GX270/
Hi Johnson, I did not intend to insult people, I just
wanted to say "most people will not want to delete Windows
if it came preinstalled with their PC" / "Most people do
not download DOS to 'clean' their PC and remove Windows".
I noticed that DOS / Win3 boots quite slow from USB (slow
BIOS driver
On Fri, 3 Feb 2006 04:16:39 +0100 (MET), you wrote:
Hi,
>And as Mark said, booting from and writing to non-harddisk
>media is slow and in the case of CD even impossible...
>Yeah well we could support CD-RW with UDF. Maybe ;-).
Not really, quite fast.
What can you expected from USB?
>You are an
Hi...
> Nearly anything you'd ever want to do in FreeDOS can be done without
> going anywhere near a hard drive or it's o/s. It's very easy to create a
> bootable FreeDOS CD or bootable FreeDOS data stick...
Making USB sticks boot FreeDOS is not actually trivial.
And as Mark said, booting from
