Re: sys Was: Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS FDISK issue with Windows Build

2005-09-11 Thread Gerry Hickman
Kenneth J. Davis wrote: its all already written, I just need to add the glue logic to sys for a user supplied boot sector instead of using compiled in one (something I've been planning anyway). :-) Jeremy Hi, I replied to the rest of this post in detail some weeks back (specifically deali

Re: sys Was: Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS FDISK issue with Windows Build

2005-08-21 Thread Gerry Hickman
Kenneth J. Davis wrote: I haven't examined MS sys to see if it does anything special, but basically you need to install MS to a partition on a hard drive (any hd, any size more-or-less); once for FAT16 and once for FAT32; and extract that boot sector. OK, that's not too difficult. Are you th

Re: sys Was: Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS FDISK issue with Windows Build

2005-08-19 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Gerry Hickman wrote: Hi, Regarding the MS install issue, one could do something like format with FreeDOS format, then use FreeDOS sys to install MS-DOS files/bootsector via its /UPDATEBS (and obtained by its /DUMPBS, winimage, any other bootsector extracting program, or even from a disk ima

Re: sys Was: Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS FDISK issue with Windows Build

2005-08-19 Thread Gerry Hickman
Hi, Regarding the MS install issue, one could do something like format with FreeDOS format, then use FreeDOS sys to install MS-DOS files/bootsector via its /UPDATEBS (and obtained by its /DUMPBS, winimage, any other bootsector extracting program, or even from a disk image), etc. Yes, that's

Re: sys Was: Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS FDISK issue with Windows Build

2005-08-19 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Bernd Blaauw wrote: Kenneth J. Davis schreef: It is documented, within kernel source doc directory and at http://freedos.sourceforge.net/kernel/docs/sys.htm Strange that it says WinME is unsupported, and doesn't mention if Win9x FAT16/32 bootsector works or is (still) broken. somewhere 's

Re: sys Was: Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS FDISK issue with Windows Build

2005-08-19 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Gerry Hickman wrote: Kenneth J. Davis wrote: It is documented, within kernel source doc directory and at http://freedos.sourceforge.net/kernel/docs/sys.htm This is very nice, but how do people find it from either FreeDOS.org or fdos.org (the sites we were given). I know, bunches of stuff

Re: sys Was: Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS FDISK issue with Windows Build

2005-08-19 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Kenneth J. Davis schreef: It is documented, within kernel source doc directory and at http://freedos.sourceforge.net/kernel/docs/sys.htm Strange that it says WinME is unsupported, and doesn't mention if Win9x FAT16/32 bootsector works or is (still) broken. somewhere 'segent' --> 'segment' l

Re: sys Was: Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS FDISK issue with Windows Build

2005-08-19 Thread Gerry Hickman
Kenneth J. Davis wrote: It is documented, within kernel source doc directory and at http://freedos.sourceforge.net/kernel/docs/sys.htm This is very nice, but how do people find it from either FreeDOS.org or fdos.org (the sites we were given). If I go to http://freedos.sourceforge.net/ and

sys Was: Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS FDISK issue with Windows Build

2005-08-19 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Johnson Lam wrote: On Thu, 18 Aug 2005 21:59:00 +0200, you wrote: Hi Bernd, In sourcecode, SYS v3.6 is still under development :) If you didn't write here, I don't even know there're hidden switch, how can I test? It is documented, within kernel source doc directory and at http://freedo