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I know floppy drives are cheap-- here's my problem, however... I have not
$2.00 to my name. Any money I get, I get from my parents-- which isn't
much, because we live below the poverty line. That's why I have cheapo
Internet access. I can barely afford to take the ACT test let alone buy
more hardware for my computer.
What I'm going to do is start advertising services as a DOS/Windows
techinician, which I'm pretty well qualified (in real experience, not yet
on paper) to do. I have many people who I can use as references.
Maybe I can make an extra buck or two that way.
- Mike
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On Thu, 4 Mar 1999, Raider wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Mar 1999, Michael Trausch wrote:
> > > So it's the time to learn how to make your own boot/root/rescue
> > > disks. At that point you'll be fully independent from m$.
> > I have no problem but one, in doing that. My floppy drive is dying, and
> > it's OK for reading disks, but I can't write a damn thing with it...
> > there's something wrong with the heads. And, as for the other computers,
> > they all have floppy problems of their own. I need money.
>
> Money... I understand you here more than you can believe. But a
> floppy drive is really cheap (a regular one, not some kind of super floppy
> drive which sees regular floppies as well). Else, you can do the disk
> images, even mount them - there is a feature of the kernel to enable this,
> so maybe a kernel recompile will be required. This way you can do some
> tests. Than you archive the images with zip - very common for both dos
> and Linux - and copy the volumes on msdos formatted floppies. Than you go
> to some friend, at work, or somewhere where there is a floppy drive
> available and unzip the images than rawrite/dd them. Back home you test
> the results. If all goes well, than you label them and store in a safe
> place.
>
> > I ran and installed this partition loader. Oops... forgot to install LILO
> > on /dev/hda3... =( ... luckily, I have a DOS version of dd and I saved the
> > first 512 bytes of /dev/hda... Anyway, then I did that, and reinstalled
> > the bootloader... it worked, but it said that the Linux partition was
> > illegally partitioned.... It said that the Linux partition was 17
> > cylinders over the end of the hard disk. OK, I thought, we'll fix that.
> > WRONG.
>
> Actually here you need some extended documentations about
> partitions and boot records. I'm not a wise ass. I need them too.
> Else I stick with fdisk /mbr in dos/win when it comes to restore the MBR.
> And Linux fdisk in a dispreate try to fix partitions. I don't go for
> direct access because that is a senzitive area.
>
> > I found the option to manually change the sectors (I didn't remember the
> > cylinder thing then)... fsck reported a difference of sectors, telling the
> > old value and the new value.... So I changed it to the old value (the
> > "illegal" one in DOS) and it worked after taking a half-hour to fsck the
> > hard disk, and fix the thousands (I kid thee not) of errors that it found
> > towards the end of the drive.
>
> Glad you fixed it finally. The conclusion will be like thy not
> play with dos stuff when it comes to delicate things.
>
> > ::grr:: stupid mistake...
>
> Shit happens :)
>
> Raider
> --
> ``Liberate tu-temet ex inferis''
>
>
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