[Freedos-user] Packet drivers/Automatic setup

2005-07-26 Thread Blair Campbell
Hi. I am requesting that everyone with a little spare time and a PCI network card that works with a clearly redistributable packet driver (in the licence, like a crynwr packet driver), to email me their PCIsleep output and either tell me what driver it works with if it is in the crynwr packet

[Freedos-user] OpenGEM Core, Complete and Experimental have been updated

2005-07-26 Thread Shane M. Coughlan
OpenGEM Core, Complete and Experimental have been updated. Release 4 Update 2 of these software packages is now online at http://gem.shaneland.co.uk/downloads.html. If you are an existing user of Release 4 Update 1 you can download an update package from http://gem.shaneland.co.uk/updates.html

[Freedos-user] To Jeremy: FreeDOS FDISK another partition problem

2005-07-26 Thread Johnson Lam
Dear All, Yesterday I'm lucky that I got a IBM eServer to play with, and suddenly a flash on my mind ... why don't I try FreeDOS on it? So I got the dual SCSI RAID-5 ready and install FreeDOS, and I found that Free FDISK failed, it can create the partition, FORMAT and SYS, but failed to boot,

Re: [Freedos-user] re: FDISK MBR and FORMAT questions

2005-07-26 Thread Gerry Hickman
Hi, No idea whether MS FDISK zaps the MBR from time to time, but it better not. I learned a couple of things about FreeDOS FDISK today: 1. You can issue FDISK /CLEARALL and it clears everything! This is excellent, and much faster than MS-DOS with all it's silly warnings. It even clears the

[Freedos-user] re: To Jeremy: FreeDOS FDISK another partition problem

2005-07-26 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Gerry, Could be a number of things, but in general you'd never put FreeDOS on a RAID 5 partition of 140Gb. Well, why not? Modern home PC mainboards already support RAID (not sure if they do RAID 5, though) and the CHEAPEST (if you check the per-GB price) harddisks today are IDE 160 GB

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS FDISK another partition problem

2005-07-26 Thread Johnson Lam
On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 19:37:34 +0100, you wrote: Hi Gerry, Could be a number of things, but in general you'd never put FreeDOS on a RAID 5 partition of 140Gb. You're right. I'm just want to TEST, to see if FreeDOS can work on Xeon server grade machine. It's works despite of few glitches. If you

Re: [Freedos-user] re: To Jeremy: FreeDOS FDISK another partition problem

2005-07-26 Thread Johnson Lam
On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 20:54:12 +0200 (MEST), you wrote: Hi Eric, Well, why not? Modern home PC mainboards already support RAID (not sure if they do RAID 5, though) and the CHEAPEST (if you check the per-GB price) harddisks today are IDE 160 GB ones. No. Most of them is RAID 0/1 or 0 + 1 only.