On 12/15/2019 3:47 AM, Felix Miata wrote:
From there, you can run fdisk, format and several other commands to manually
partition and/or format ggumsthe a hard drive and transfer system boot files.
Thanks. While I was waiting I did a base install and a sans sources install, two
different disks on the same i915 Dell. Both produced bootable results, but the
first one, to the existing FAT 16 250 MB destroyed all 33 logical partitions on
the drive in the process. Luckily I had documented all of them and successfully
created them.
33 logical partitions? How and why? Any DOS would not be able to handle
more than 24 (C: though Z:, internally, there might the possibility to
handle a couple more IIRC, but it still would leave you short of 33).
In any way, this would be a rather unusual use case and it would be more
helpful if you could provide more detailed info, both to understand your
"setup" and what possibly could have been interpreted by the FreeDOS
tools (in a wrong way)...
When I moved the 60G to its newe laptop home, attempting to boot produces no
prompt, only a dot in the upper corner. I was able to boot the installation CD,
and with that and the bios update file on C: start it, but it refused to run,
cla
Same here. And at least the last message would indicate to me that there
is a more general problem with the laptop, possible due to the process
of removing and reinstalling the hard drive in that laptop...
In general, these kind of hardware related issue are extremely hard
follow and understand on a mailing list (or any online method)...
Ralf
iming there is no battery. :~(
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