On Wed, 27 Jul 2005 19:35:38 +0100, you wrote: Hi Gerry,
>Yes, I've been testing it on XEONs and no problems as yet. Did you >notice any other glitches other than the this? No, I try some tricky DOS applications, got the same old result. Stable. >Out of interest, I think you said it would not boot? Can you explain the >exact steps you used to tell it you wanted to be able to boot? I assume >you were trying to actually boot the whole RAID5 array using the FreeDOS >boot sector, the MBR from FreeDOS and the FreeDOS system files, is this >correct? Again, should be FDISK problem, seems it can't write the MBR correctly (happen again today in other PII system!) Just a normal setup procedure after setting up the RAID-5: 1) FDISK, select maximize the partition and active 2) Reboot 3) format c: /s After reboot, only see the line cursor jumping around the screen in a certain pattern, delete the partition and try again, get the same result. Finally boot the Win98, FDISK and FreeDOS format, OK! >> The server will install 2003Server soon, just want to try FreeDOS. >Hmm, it might run faster on FreeDOS:) FreeDOS still don't have "killer application". Iif the server can be like Novell, provide connection by TCP/IP and run some heavy calculation job, FreeDOS surely will better than any Windows server, since DOS have no (or very little) overhead. >Yes, I think that's where a lot of people go wrong. Even the MCSE did this, amazing. >This could well be a limitation with MS-DOS. There were certainly >differences between MS-DOS 6.22 FDISK and the FDISK that ships with >Win95/98/ME (FAT32 and "large" drives), but none of them are as nice as >FreeDOS. So just lack a bit bugfix, FreeDOS can be use everywhere. I've tried PTS-DOS32, the UI is very nice, next step maybe it's time for FreeDOS to improve the UI. Rgds, Johnson. ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
