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> I don't see how MS-DOS 6.22 made it out the door with FDISK in such
> sad shape, it doesn't run on my system at all. And MS-DOS can't
> read the FAT16 partition on my second hard disk ("Invalid media");
I think you may be barking up the wrong tree here. Did you FDISK
your system with DR-DOS 7.03 or Dr/Open-DOS 7.02? If so - your
problem might be related to a bug in Dr-Dos fdisk.
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Neither! I used OS/2 Warp FDISK on first hard drive and Linux fdisk to tag the
Linux partitions native (83) and swap (82), and OS/2 Warp FORMAT command. On
the second hard disk, I used Linux fdisk, making three logical drives,
formatted by OS/2 Warp FORMAT:
format e: /fs:fat
format f: /fs:hpfs
Other partition was/is Linux native.
By the time of installing DR-DOS 7.03, partitions were already there. I never
got to use DR-DOS 7.03 FDISK. Only way I used MS-DOS 6.22 FDISK was
fdisk /status
and that swooned with blinking underline cursor in lower left corner of
otherwise black screen, and I had to Ctrl-Alt-Del.
With the bugs you report, too much to quote reasonably, MS-DOS and DR-DOS FDISKs
are both screwy? MS-DOS is really MS-DOG and DR-DOS is not the Rx? Since it
looks like Caldera/Lineo is going no further with DR-DOS, maybe there will be no
more fixes for FDISK or anything else? Time to follow Caldrea/Lineo's and MS's
lead and switch to a more advanced OS? Better get going with Linux Arachne!
