Re: [Freedos-user] More FreeDOS FDISK tests - failure is repeatable

2005-07-22 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
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,

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS won't boot correctly from hard disk

2005-07-22 Thread Carl William Spitzer IV
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

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

2005-07-22 Thread Carl William Spitzer IV
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.

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS kicks some serious Ass!

2005-07-22 Thread Carl William Spitzer IV
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. --

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS won't boot correctly from hard disk

2005-07-22 Thread kd4d
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

Re: [Freedos-user] More FreeDOS FDISK tests - failure is repeatable

2005-07-22 Thread Gerry Hickman
[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

Re: [Freedos-user] More FreeDOS FDISK tests - failure is repeatable

2005-07-22 Thread Michael Devore
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

[Freedos-user] Announce: EDIT 0.7d preview / doc-and-bug-help needed

2005-07-22 Thread Eric Auer
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

[Freedos-user] re: More FreeDOS FDISK tests - failure is repeatable

2005-07-22 Thread Eric Auer
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,

Re: [Freedos-user] Announce: EDIT 0.7d preview / doc-and-bug-help needed

2005-07-22 Thread Johnson Lam
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