Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS FDISK another partition problem

2005-07-27 Thread Gerry Hickman
Johnson Lam wrote: You're right. I'm just want to TEST, to see if FreeDOS can work on Xeon server grade machine. It's works despite of few glitches. Yes, I've been testing it on XEONs and no problems as yet. Did you notice any other glitches other than the this? Out of interest, I think

Re: [Freedos-user] FDISK MBR and FORMAT questions

2005-07-27 Thread Carl William Spitzer IV
On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 13:01, Bernd Blaauw any valid MBR starts with AA55, so if no AA55, FDISK /MBR might be done automatically. Am I correct, Eric? Any 'dump MBR to file' programs available so we could verify what the contents of MBR is on an empty (unpartitioned probably?) harddisk? You

Re: [Freedos-user] Is there a maximum partition size in the FreeDOS kernel?

2005-07-27 Thread Carl William Spitzer IV
On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 12:38, Arkady V.Belousov wrote: Hi! 22-Июл-2005 10:18 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carl William Spitzer IV) wrote to FreeDOS 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

[Freedos-user] VOL Command hangs HP Pavilion with EMM386

2005-07-27 Thread kd4d
Hello all: OK, now that I've at least identified the FDISK problem, and solved the DIR divide by zero problem, I need to work on why FreeDOS doesn't boot and/or run stably on many computers. Fortunately, I have the Haunted HP Pavilion. I have a repeateable problem with the VOL command built

Re: [Freedos-user] VOL Command hangs HP Pavilion with EMM386

2005-07-27 Thread Michael Devore
At 12:22 AM 7/28/2005 +, Mark Bailey wrote: Help! How do I start to debug this?!?! This is the same machine which has FDISK overwriting the partition table whenever it is run with EMM386. Exclude all high memory via X=A000-EFFF and add NOEMS option. Those two options only, unless your

[Freedos-user] screen reader

2005-07-27 Thread mike coulombe
Hi I am a blind computer user. Does anyone know of a freeware software package for dos. This way speech could be obtained threw the sound card and a external speech unit wouldn't be needed. Thanks Mike. PS incase you don't know what a screen reader is, it makes the computer speak the