Hi!
Eric, I followed the following steps
1.Format CFC on PC as FAT not FAT32
2.Wrote FreeDos bootable image to it with WinImage
3.Booted with CFC
4.FDisk, Delete partition, Create Primary Dos partition, Answer Y to
Fat32 support.
5.Format C:
6.Sys C:
Why did you
MessageFor what it is worth, I use HP's Disk format tool for my CF card. This
utility is no longer supported but you can easily find it on the web (be
cautious).
http://www.bay-wolf.com/usbmemstick.htm
Hi all
Interestlingly, I have been using CFC's to boot my machines for about
6 years or so.(DiskOnChip before that, RomDisks before that, and initially
Floppies(shudder))
I used a floppy once to create a bootable CFC and kept using images from
then on.
Simply bought SanDisk (as they were fast
As long as I remember on MS-DOS format /s is the
same as use FORMAT and later use SYS.
Transfer boot sector, hiden files and command.com
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Just found out that the '/s' in 'format C: /s' formats the drive and leaves
There are expensive benchmarks out there like Bapco Mobilemark that will test
laptop battery characteristics including run-time. There are also free methods
like pop in a DVD and sit in front of the laptop with a timer until the
machine shuts down.
But this seems like a good job for DOS,
ThinkPad laptops have a version of PC Doctor available for download
that includes a battery rundown test. Both the floppy and, strangely
perhaps, the CD version, record the last result run on that machine.
(Perhaps it writes to some non-volatile memory in the machine.)
Perhaps their regular
Just found out that the '/s' in 'format C: /s' formats the drive and leaves
space for the system files from the 'sys'
command; but some say the sys com also transfers a copy of command.com,
while other sources don't! I can
tell you that 'format C:' does not place a copy of command.com, whereas
A quicky:
I noticed several references to: do a format, then a sys c:; is this
exactly the same as format c: /s? I have always
used the latter and never saw a conflict message in terms of
geometries,between the BIOS and fdisk; in fact, my
fdisk is so old that it seems to lack many options(one
Hi All
I have been trying - and trying and trying - to read a large multi-page
Postscript file [[the REXX manual]] using FreeDOS. The pages were too small
to read when sent directly to screen. So I sent pages to the pcxmono driver
[[-NOPAUSE -sDEVICE#pcxmono -sOutputFile#foo.pcx ]].
