At 02:38 PM 1/31/02, you wrote: > > Installation: > > 1. make a DOS boot diskette with SYS.COM and FDISK.EXE (probably > > with some editor or Volkov Commander too) > > 2. install this package > > 3. login as root > > 4. check /etc/dosemu.conf (only if your diskette drive A: is not > > an 3.5') > > 5. put system diskette to floppy drive and type: dos -A > > 6. after DOS up type (this NOT affect your HDD, only > > /lib/dosemu/hdimage) > > FDISK /MBR > > SYS C: > > C: >Hi Christof; >I'm NOT going to try the above even tho it SAYS it will NOT affect HDD. >With my luck it will turn out that the author means it will not affect >HIS Hard Disk. :(((
fdisk /mbr is a common trick for rewriting the master boot record. It does not affect data, people do it all the time. You can reasonably try it. Naturally, whenever you do anything, even download your mail, you SHOULD have backups made. IOW, you should never be without backups of your important data. You knever know, for instance, if the power will suddenly go out during defrag or such. That being said, I'm never quite properly backed up and I know plenty of others who aren't. :-) Still, go ahead and do the fdisk routine. Sys c: is even more benign, it'll just rewrite the basic DOS boot files. command.com and such, no problem. I wish I were a glow worm, 'Cause a glow worm's never glum. How can you be unhappy When the sun shines out your bum? http://anarkissed.myip.org end transmission [o^o]
