Hi: Thanks. I know all of these workarounds. The problem was an apparent bug in an older version of FreeDOS sys.com.
Mark > On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 17:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello, all: > > > > Back to my other laptop and other problem. I am unable to install > > FreeDOS on my 477 MB FAT32 partition. This is a DIFFERENT laptop > > entirely. There is an extended partition, and an NTFS partition. > > The FAT32 partition is a primary partition (the third, I believe). > > > www.bootdisk.com > > try it with a MSDOS 622 or PCDOS disk and use its fdisk. > > There is some disagreement about partition marking between windows and > linux and rumors that MickeyMouse will be changing again for some > version of NTFS. > > So I would advise trying to cheat in this way. > > BTW there is now an Oreilly book on Knoppix and its tricks. Looked like > a good toolkit to have just in case. > > -- > +-----------------<<<<<<<CWSIV>>>>>>>----------------+ > | | > | | \ /|\ || |\ / |~~\ /~~\ /~~| //~~\ | > | | \ / | \ || | X |__/| || |( `--. | > | |__ | | \| \_/ / \ | \ \__/ \__| \\__/ | > | | > +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+ > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies > from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, > informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to > speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477&alloc_id=16492&op=click > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477&alloc_id=16492&op=click _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
