Re: [Freedos-user] More FreeDOS FDISK tests - failure is repeatable
Anyone know if Brian is on fd-user list? or otherwise been notified of these issues? I don't think it will be too difficult to correct (warn/abort at least) so maybe if I get time after work tommorrow I'll make a patch available to make fdisk safer to use. Thanks for reviewing the code, Jeremy (hoping Brian is still around...) Michael Devore wrote: At 04:01 PM 7/21/2005 -0500, I wrote: When you invoke FDISK without arguments, it goes into the Interactive_User_Interface() routine. That, in turn, asks about FAT32 support, via Ask_User_About_FAT32_Support() function. OK so far. After that call -- without any further prompting -- FDISK calls the Create_MBR_If_Not_Present() routine. ... --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477alloc_id=16492op=click ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS won't boot correctly from hard disk
On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 17:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, all: Back to my other laptop and other problem. I am unable to install FreeDOS on my 477 MB FAT32 partition. This is a DIFFERENT laptop entirely. There is an extended partition, and an NTFS partition. The FAT32 partition is a primary partition (the third, I believe). www.bootdisk.com try it with a MSDOS 622 or PCDOS disk and use its fdisk. There is some disagreement about partition marking between windows and linux and rumors that MickeyMouse will be changing again for some version of NTFS. So I would advise trying to cheat in this way. BTW there is now an Oreilly book on Knoppix and its tricks. Looked like a good toolkit to have just in case. -- +-CWSIV+ || || \ /|\ || |\ / |~~\ /~~\ /~~| //~~\| || \ / | \ || | X |__/||| |( `--.| ||__ | | \| \_/ / \ | \ \__/ \__| \\__/| || ++ --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477alloc_id=16492op=click ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Is there a maximum partition size in the FreeDOS kernel?
On Sat, 2005-07-16 at 15:22, Arkady V.Belousov wrote: Hi! 16-Июл-2005 00:07 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: kn What's the size limit on a partition for the FreeDOS kernel? 2 Gb for FAT16 partition, 2 Tb for the FAT32 partition. But all programs, which use only 32-bit arithmetics and use plain old DOS functions (non-FAT32 aware) always will see 2 Gb free, even if there (on FAT32 partition) is more free space. In crashing this machine I found that the extended is limited to 8gig out of which you can carve up your logical partitions which share the 2gig limit. -- +-CWSIV+ || || \ /|\ || |\ / |~~\ /~~\ /~~| //~~\| || \ / | \ || | X |__/||| |( `--.| ||__ | | \| \_/ / \ | \ \__/ \__| \\__/| || ++ --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477alloc_id=16492op=click ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS kicks some serious Ass!
On Mon, 2005-07-18 at 17:02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, some people just don't like WindowsXP. It's hard to buy a new computer without it installed, though! File a microsoft refund form. Then install your favorite dos and your favorite distro and enjoy. -- +-CWSIV+ || || \ /|\ || |\ / |~~\ /~~\ /~~| //~~\| || \ / | \ || | X |__/||| |( `--.| ||__ | | \| \_/ / \ | \ \__/ \__| \\__/| || ++ --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477alloc_id=16492op=click ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS won't boot correctly from hard disk
Hi: Thanks. I know all of these workarounds. The problem was an apparent bug in an older version of FreeDOS sys.com. Mark On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 17:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, all: Back to my other laptop and other problem. I am unable to install FreeDOS on my 477 MB FAT32 partition. This is a DIFFERENT laptop entirely. There is an extended partition, and an NTFS partition. The FAT32 partition is a primary partition (the third, I believe). www.bootdisk.com try it with a MSDOS 622 or PCDOS disk and use its fdisk. There is some disagreement about partition marking between windows and linux and rumors that MickeyMouse will be changing again for some version of NTFS. So I would advise trying to cheat in this way. BTW there is now an Oreilly book on Knoppix and its tricks. Looked like a good toolkit to have just in case. -- +-CWSIV+ || || \ /|\ || |\ / |~~\ /~~\ /~~| //~~\| || \ / | \ || | X |__/||| |( `--.| ||__ | | \| \_/ / \ | \ \__/ \__| \\__/| || ++ --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477alloc_id=16492op=click ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477alloc_id=16492op=click ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] More FreeDOS FDISK tests - failure is repeatable
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By the way, I consider this bug extremely serious. I agree, and Michael's post would appear to confirm that FDISK is far from read-only, but has this bug always been there, or is it only in recent development builds? If it's always been there, why have more people not been affected? -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477alloc_id=16492op=click ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] More FreeDOS FDISK tests - failure is repeatable
At 08:36 PM 7/22/2005 +0100, Gerry Hickman wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By the way, I consider this bug extremely serious. I agree, and Michael's post would appear to confirm that FDISK is far from read-only, but has this bug always been there, or is it only in recent development builds? If it's always been there, why have more people not been affected? Biggest mitigating factors are that if your hard drive behaves without errors, is reasonably standard with expected parameters, and there is no corruption of the program, the MBR write on startup won't occur. Hard drives do tend to be reliable and within common CHS/LBA expectations. And I'm guessing that most of the time there isn't corruption of the FDISK program such that it blows its internal partition or read data, or stack. Thing to remember is that we don't know the actual bug is in FDISK. It may well not be there. We just know that FDISK is unfriendly to anything other than expected behavior to the point of potentially disastrous actions. Unexpected behaviors are likely rare events. --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477alloc_id=16492op=click ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] Announce: EDIT 0.7d preview / doc-and-bug-help needed
Hi, thanks to Bothie helping me out while there are problems with uploading things to my page, you can now enjoy the new EDIT 0.7d PREVIEW version :-). It is a preview version because there are several help text things which are still to be fixed, so if you want to support your FreeDOS developers (uhm, me :-)) please send me (or even better, upload somewhere) an improved version of edit.txt (or a diff). Thanks a lot :-). If you prefer programming: There is one unsolved bug to hunt down. Grab your copy of EDIT 0.7d preview at: http://bothie.sharedaemon.org/temp/edit07d-pre.zip The big list of updates, bugs and wishes follows. Please comment in particular the wish part so that I know which are most wanted. Updates for 0.7d: * UPCASE / DOWNCASE block functions added, which have the effect that you expect from the name, but support no COUNTRY extras yet... * COUNT lines words and bytes in block function added: the results are shown in the status line until you move the cursor again. * You can now also use ESC again to leave single line editboxes in dialogs - to type a literal ESC, use Ctrl-P ESC there now. * Bugfix: Moving the ASCII table is now possible by keyboard. The ASCII table also looks a bit better now, nicer char description line. * Stability: Some sanity checks to skip loading a broken edit.hlp file, although only one of three header words is checked strongly yet. * Security: Refuses invalid directories and drives after lastdrive now. SaveAs should be quite a bit safer now but not really perfect yet. * Reenabled double border for in-focus dialog listboxes(*) and in-focus text windows. (*) is very good as you did not SEE that focus before! Open issues: * HELP should be updated to tell that Alt-Digit can be used to directly jump to open windows, but that this means the digit keys on top of the keyboard, not the numpad digit keys which have other purposes. * HELP should be updated to tell that Ctrl-P letter for literal typing of things like tab or esc is supported in dialogs AND text windows. * HELP should be updated to mention all hotkeys, e.g. Ctrl-F is known to be not yet mentioned in the help text... * I could not find a BUG in the automatic dropdown menu width setup code which makes the Ctrl-F hotkey label of FIND look like Ctrl-! Wishlist: * The WINDOW menu item is not blocked if there are no windows open, no real problem... * Functions to TILE or CASCADE windows would be nice, and at least the CASCADE function should be reasonably easy to implement. * It would be nice to have some mouse support in the ASCII table, e.g. klicking on a char could select it and maybe even paste it to the most recently active editor text window... * Something like a ruler or temporarily showing line and column number around the current editor text window might be nice - but is hard. * A function to insert date and time as string at the cursor location might be useful. But I actually do not think it is worth the hassle. Thanks in advance for testing. I hope you enjoy the update :-). Eric PS: The width bug is assumed to be in popdown.c, something is using SelectionWidth() or MenuWidth() the wrong way or uses one while it should be using the other or similar. Again, I could not find it. --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477alloc_id=16492op=click ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] re: More FreeDOS FDISK tests - failure is repeatable
Hi, while it would be easy to remove the write new empty partition table if reading the partition table failed nonsense from FDISK, would it be against the FreeDOS SPECS to just replace it by, say, XFDISK? I mean, XFDISK is open source. It only does not LOOK like the old MS DOS user interface, but hey, that was crap anyway... http://www.mecronome.de/xfdisk/index.php Eric PS: I am sure there are other, even better, alternatives, but xfdisk was just the first alternative FDISK that came into mind when I thought about replacements. And that xfdisk homepage has some false claims (e.g. only Lilo can boot Linux, and the first track has 17 free sectors which are free for xfdisk fiddling...) does not exactly make it more promising... Still better than FD FDISK? PPS: I know that our FDISK has a big number of command-line driven options, so whatever we use as replacement would also have to be quite scriptable, for those who really liked those features...! --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477alloc_id=16492op=click ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Announce: EDIT 0.7d preview / doc-and-bug-help needed
On Sat, 23 Jul 2005 02:34:27 +0200 (MEST), you wrote: Hi Eric, Sorry for me not being smooth talking ... Hi, thanks to Bothie helping me out while there are problems with uploading things to my page, you can now enjoy the new EDIT 0.7d PREVIEW version :-). It is a preview version because there are several help text things which are still to be fixed, so if you want to support your FreeDOS developers (uhm, me :-)) please send me (or even better, upload somewhere) an improved version of edit.txt (or a diff). Thanks a lot :-). Glad you make new version of EDIT, but since Joe still releasing his own EDIT, better NOT to have too many forked version here. Did you merge Joe's code into your EDIT? Rgds, Johnson. --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477alloc_id=16492op=click ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
