Booted from the beta9rc5 disk image, trying to format a hard drive using FAT32. fdisk has no problems deleting old linux and NT partitions and creating a new single partition spanning the entire 40 gB drive, but format seems rather broken--it just hangs at zero percent when doing a 'format c: /u'
Hi, you think that FORMAT C: /U on a 40 GB partition would hang?
No, but you selected /U which means wiping the entire 40 GB and
doing a surface scan for it! This can take very long, and FORMAT
is not optimized for that. I recommend that you use
FORMAT C: /Q /U
instead, which only writes the
hi all,
i'm a new freedos user, if i can say this.
i downloaded freedos Beta 9RC5 and i tried to install on a pc with a
creative 52x cd5233e.
i used a boot floppy because my pc doesn't boot from cdrom.
the result is: error on access to the cdrom, nothing installed and the cdrom
is damaged and
marco cavallini schreef:
i downloaded freedos Beta 9RC5 and i tried to install on a pc with a
creative 52x cd5233e.
i used a boot floppy because my pc doesn't boot from cdrom.
which bootfloppy? downloaded/obtained from where?
the result is: error on access to the cdrom, nothing installed and the
hello,
first of all, thank u for yr prompt reply
i downloaded freedos Beta 9RC5 and i tried to install on a pc with a
creative 52x cd5233e.
i used a boot floppy because my pc doesn't boot from cdrom.
which bootfloppy? downloaded/obtained from where?
i used
Hi, try loading SHARE, for file sharing and locking:
http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~eric/stuff/soft/by-others/freedos-share-04may2004.zip
or use an older version. Try with FAT16 if FAT32 is a problem. Do not forget
to try loading network / ... drivers low, loading them into UMB can give
spurious
Eric Auer wrote:
Hi, try loading SHARE, for file sharing and locking:
http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~eric/stuff/soft/by-others/freedos-share-04may2004.zip
or use an older version. Try with FAT16 if FAT32 is a problem. Do not forget
to try loading network / ... drivers low, loading them into UMB can
