Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2000 00:18:15 PDT
From: "neil barnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ZFLinux's MachZ super low power x86 system on a chip
<snip>
>I don't know *anything* about Linux.... but the times I've recovered a disk
>from Linux and used the Linux fdisk, I've learned to put the whole drive
>under one dos partition with the Linux fdisk.... because even tho dos
>*looks*
>like it agrees with the Linux fdisk, as you have said elsewhere, looks are
>deceiving.
>
>I don't know why it doesn't work.... but I learned to not waste my time
>with
>Linux fdisk in partitioning for dos.... I just do the partitioning with the
>dos
>fdisk and reformat... and that does the trick.
This was a disk with a suspect boot sector virus which was why I wanted to
zap it thoroughly...no way was I putting it in my C drive on the desktop,
but dos is so dumb it won't let you make anything but C bootable :(
>
>The first time I tried this, I didn't use the Linux fdisk at all to put the
>drive
>back to dos... just tried to fdisk with dos only.... BIG mistake! I
>thought the
>drive was forever lost to Linux until I discovered using Linux fdisk to put
>it
>back.
>
Linux and Dos seem to have different ideas about how to handle extended
partitions. Perhaps there isn't a spec for how the boot sector works and
everyone has just reverse engineered it.
> >but I guess that's dos for you.
>
>Or maybe it's 'Linux for you'... Maybe the Linux people who did the fdisk
>program didn't bother with making it a 'true' dos at all, but just made it
>so
>dos can then do its job.
>
>And I enjoyed reading your *long, boring* story! It's interesting to read
>how
>people struggle to conquer machines.... makes one wonder if 'they' are
>really smarter than us after all... and enjoy seeing us struggle to get the
>upper hand, if indeed we ever do :-)
>
>Karen
>gg
>
Neil (will not submit to a lump of sand with impurities)
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