At 08.09.2000 05:25:00, you wrote:
>>from Joerg Bartels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
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>I respond:
>
>Your dd command differed from the dd command in the readme by putting cdrom
>before /Corel
Yes, because without ...cdrom... it does not work -may be there was the point
to leave it alone :)
>Were you supposed to cd /cdrom?
No
>What directory were you in when you typed the ill-fated dd command? Was there a
>file system on the floppy before you mounted it?
>Maybe factory-formatted for DOS?
/, the floppy was DOS-formated with DR-DOS
>Maybe such a command
>would be valid if you were in / directory (root)? Otherwise cdrom and dev would
>have to be preceded by /. Without this leading /, paths and file names ought to
>be invalid. You are not supposed to mount a diskette when preparing to write to
>the raw device, as opposed to a file system.
Now I know :)
>I once crashed my CMOS by an errant program, running in (Borland) Turbo
>Debugger. When I rebooted, I noticed beeping, and the hard drive was not
>readable. I rebooted from drive A, ran CHKDSK /f (a disastrous error), which
>trashed everything because the hard drive geometry was being read wrong. I then
>found the correct hard drive type in the CMOS after trial and error, no more
>beeping, had to reformat and reinstall everything: 40 MB hard drive with
>MS-DOS 5. That CMOS crash happened again later, but this time I remembered to
>reset the hard drive type correctly in CMOS, and I was able to reboot with
>nothing damaged. Nowadays I believe the BIOS can autodetect hard drive
>geometry?
Yes, but you see the danger coming from CMOS-crashing.
regards, Joerg
