This concerns a pure FreeDOS machine (Pentium 120, 16MB) having a 4.3GB hard drive with a single FAT32 partition created by the CD Installer's partition and format tools after the drive had been zero-filled.
Except for the few problems I've reported here, things seem to be working fine with a couple dozen games, Arachne, CD players, networking, and more, but I wanted to try the DOSFSCK tool for FAT32. Running DOSFSCK -N C: generates a screen of 5 columns, each "row-field" entry being of a format like ", 504:20/00" and then under that set of columnar data: Not automatically fixing this malloc: general problems Aborting Running DOSFSCK -R C: generates the same screen of data followed by: 1) Copy original to backup 2) Copy backup to original 3) No action ? _ Entering 3 results in: malloc: general problems Aborting I booted with a Win 98 startup disk and ran Scandisk, and it found no problems. So it seems both that DOSFSCK is finding problems and is also having a hard time running, though I don't know what the program output is supposed to look like. Where do I start here? --John Hupp ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
