Re: [Freedos-user] Do any of the installation media boot options allow to simply boot and run FORMAT C: /S?

2019-12-22 Thread Felix Miata
Felix Miata composed on 2019-12-15 06:47 (UTC-0500): > 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, >

Re: [Freedos-user] Do any of the installation media boot options allow to simply boot and run FORMAT C: /S?

2019-12-19 Thread Felix Miata
Felix Miata composed on 2019-12-15 06:47 (UTC-0500): > 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, I repartitioned, put the HD into installation target Dell laptop as only HD, th

Re: [Freedos-user] Do any of the installation media boot options allow to simply boot and run FORMAT C: /S?

2019-12-17 Thread Jose Isaias Cabrera
Felix Miata, on Sunday, December 15, 2019 06:47 AM, wrote... > 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

Re: [Freedos-user] Do any of the installation media boot options allow to simply boot and run FORMAT C: /S?

2019-12-15 Thread Felix Miata
Ralf Quint composed on 2019-12-15 12:58 (UTC-0800): > Felix Miata wrote: >> 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 destro

Re: [Freedos-user] Do any of the installation media boot options allow to simply boot and run FORMAT C: /S?

2019-12-15 Thread Ralf Quint
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 disk

Re: [Freedos-user] Do any of the installation media boot options allow to simply boot and run FORMAT C: /S?

2019-12-15 Thread Felix Miata
Jerome Shidel composed on 2019-12-14 22:28 (UTC-0500): >> On Dec 14, 2019, at 9:13 PM, Felix Miata wrote: >> Do any of the installation media boot options allow to simply boot and run >>FORMAT C: /S >> ??? >> I don't need anything more than a bootable HD primary from which to boot >> Fr

Re: [Freedos-user] Do any of the installation media boot options allow to simply boot and run FORMAT C: /S?

2019-12-14 Thread Jerome Shidel
> On Dec 14, 2019, at 9:13 PM, Felix Miata wrote: > > Do any of the installation media boot options allow to simply boot and run > >FORMAT C: /S > > ??? > > I don't need anything more than a bootable HD primary from which to boot > FreeDOS > and run a Dell BIOS upgrade where no floppy,

[Freedos-user] Do any of the installation media boot options allow to simply boot and run FORMAT C: /S?

2019-12-14 Thread Felix Miata
Do any of the installation media boot options allow to simply boot and run FORMAT C: /S ??? I don't need anything more than a bootable HD primary from which to boot FreeDOS and run a Dell BIOS upgrade where no floppy, CD or USB boot is possible. The boot menu on the installation media s