Q: What partitions are on it? Did you set the HD jumper appropriately for the NexStar before putting it in?
A: The Seagate drive in the NexStar enclosure has a bootable FAT16 (0x06) partition and is located at /dev/sdb1. As for the jumpers, I don't recall exactly which ones are set. However, I am able to boot up as I can with the 500GB hard drive where the Linux I use (Ubuntu 11.04) is installed. All I had to do was switch the booting sequence through the BIOS, as it recognizes my USB-converted drive. Q: Option from where? What "installation process"? A: I am referring to the options presented to me when I used the FreeDOS CD I made with the fbasecd.iso file I downloaded from the FreeDOS web site. I tried to install FreeDOS on my USB drive, but I did so without using the 'UNetbootin' software application ... with unpleasant consequences. Instead of installing FreeDOS on to my USB drive, I accidentally installed it onto the hard drive where Ubuntu is installed, making it necessary for me to reformat the whole thing and reinstall Linux. Q: What does FDISK tell you about available partitions? A: I haven't tried it yet. I was leery about doing so for fear of repeating those unpleasant consequences I described. I will try it after making sure all my data has been backed up. S: Just because you put a HD in a USB enclosure doesn't mean the OS found the device or any partitions it may have on it. A: Ubuntu 11.04 recognized my drive when I simply plugged it into one of my USB ports, but thanks for the information just the same. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy1 _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
