[Freedos-user] Target partition for installation and information displayed by the installer.
Hello, Thanks for the years of work on FreeDOS. Suppose you have a machine with two drives, a hard disk and a CF card. The installer recognizes both. FDISK can make a part on the CF card active and the intention is to install FreeDOS there. A photo of the display from the installer is here. http://members.shaw.ca/peasthope/FreeDOSinstaller.jpg The partition information refers to the hard disk, which is not the intended target. Hopefully the instruction Press 1 to start installing ... to drive C: is correct. In other words, hopefully drive C: is the CF card and not the hard drive which is identified as D:. I'm reluctant to continue with the installation at risk of clobbering data on the hard disk. Shouldn't the partition information at the top refer to drive C: rather than D:? Or is the installer aiming to target the hard disk? In any case, there can be only one target part and reference to both C: and D: in this display is a bug, isn't it? Thanks, ... Peter E. -- Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single web console. Get in-depth insight into apps, servers, databases, vmware, SAP, cloud infrastructure, etc. Download 30-day Free Trial. Pricing starts from $795 for 25 servers or applications! http://p.sf.net/sfu/zoho_dev2dev_nov ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Target partition for installation and information displayed by the installer.
Op 22-11-2012 17:04, Peter Easthope schreef: The partition information refers to the hard disk, which is not the intended target. Hopefully the instruction Press 1 to start installing ... to drive C: is correct. In other words, hopefully drive C: is the CF card and not the hard drive which is identified as D:. It's strange that FDISK doesn't list C:. Likely you'll be able to press 'q' as input at the installer screen, which will abort setup. If you definately want to ensure the harddisk isn't listed, temporarily disable your IDE/SATA controller in BIOS or disconnect the connection cables. I'm reluctant to continue with the installation at risk of clobbering data on the hard disk. Shouldn't the partition information at the top refer to drive C: rather than D:? Or is the installer aiming to target the hard disk? I've never seen FDISK not mention C: unless there wasn't a FAT partition yet. You should be able to safely continue, most setup code is written in Batch-script language instead of some compiled program. In any case, there can be only one target part and reference to both C: and D: in this display is a bug, isn't it? Seems like FDISK picked the wrong disk or your machine (or FreeDOS kernel) is happy to assign C: to a drive that's not counted as harddisk but as a huge removable drive. Bernd -- Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single web console. Get in-depth insight into apps, servers, databases, vmware, SAP, cloud infrastructure, etc. Download 30-day Free Trial. Pricing starts from $795 for 25 servers or applications! http://p.sf.net/sfu/zoho_dev2dev_nov ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Target partition for installation and information displayed by the installer.
Hi, On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 10:04 AM, Peter Easthope peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: Suppose you have a machine with two drives, a hard disk and a CF card. The installer recognizes both. FDISK can make a part on the CF card active and the intention is to install FreeDOS there. A photo of the display from the installer is here. http://members.shaw.ca/peasthope/FreeDOSinstaller.jpg The partition information refers to the hard disk, which is not the intended target. Hopefully the instruction Press 1 to start installing ... to drive C: is correct. In other words, hopefully drive C: is the CF card and not the hard drive which is identified as D:. Try using VOL to set a volume label on the default target. Maybe then (from within FDISK) you can tell which is which. -- Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single web console. Get in-depth insight into apps, servers, databases, vmware, SAP, cloud infrastructure, etc. Download 30-day Free Trial. Pricing starts from $795 for 25 servers or applications! http://p.sf.net/sfu/zoho_dev2dev_nov ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Target partition for installation and information displayed by the installer.
Bernd others, From: Bernd Blaauw bbla...@home.nl Sent: Thu, 22 Nov 2012 10:48:51 -0700 (MST) It's strange that FDISK doesn't list C:. I believe the display in the photo comes from the installer and not from FDISK. FDISK has already been applied to the CF card before the photo was made. Likely you'll be able to press 'q' as input at the installer screen, which will abort setup. Correct. I went to the next screen and exited to avoid catastrophe. If you definately want to ensure the harddisk isn't listed, temporarily disable your IDE/SATA controller in BIOS or disconnect the connection cables. Yes, will disconnect cables. I've never seen FDISK not mention C: unless there wasn't a FAT partition yet. You should be able to safely continue, most setup code is written in Batch-script language instead of some compiled program. I used FDISK before this photograph. FDISK was aware of both drives. And FDISK did operate on the CF card with no problems evident. The complaint is strictly with the display photographed where both C: and D: are mentioned and the target is ambiguous. Seems like FDISK picked the wrong disk or your machine (or FreeDOS kernel) is happy to assign C: to a drive that's not counted as harddisk but as a huge removable drive. Possibly. In any case, target ambiguity is a bug. I will unplug the non-targetted drive. Thanks, ... Peter E. -- Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single web console. Get in-depth insight into apps, servers, databases, vmware, SAP, cloud infrastructure, etc. Download 30-day Free Trial. Pricing starts from $795 for 25 servers or applications! http://p.sf.net/sfu/zoho_dev2dev_nov ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
