Hi!
> > Hi, you think that FORMAT C: /U on a 40 GB partition would hang?
> > No, but you selected /U which means wiping the entire 40 GB and
> > doing a surface scan for it!
> That's the desired behavior in this case. We're assuming the user has a
> hosed disk and needs a complete reformat.
Unl
--On Wednesday, May 12, 2004 12:15 AM +0200 Eric Auer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi, you think that FORMAT C: /U on a 40 GB partition would hang?
No, but you selected /U which means wiping the entire 40 GB and
doing a surface scan for it!
That's the desired behavior in this case. We're assuming th
Hi, you think that FORMAT C: /U on a 40 GB partition would hang?
No, but you selected /U which means wiping the entire 40 GB and
doing a surface scan for it! This can take very long, and FORMAT
is not optimized for that. I recommend that you use
FORMAT C: /Q /U
instead, which only writes the files
Booted from the beta9rc5 disk image, trying to format a hard drive using FAT32. fdisk has no problems deleting old linux and NT partitions and creating a new single partition spanning the entire 40 gB drive, but format seems rather broken--it just hangs at zero percent when doing a 'format c: /u'
On Tue, 11 May 2004, marco cavallini wrote:
>well... when i turn on my pc, the green led of the cdrom reader blinks, the
>tray opens and closes regularly but i cannot read any data from there. i
>tried this morning to connect the cdrom to a pc with win98. bios detected
>the device on boot and win9
Aak! Not yet! :-)
I've made many changes to the help files since v1.0.3.
It would be a shame to do the 'reality check' before I
release v1.0.4 later this month.
Don't worry that pre-releases don't quite have
matching documents. Full releases will be of the
desired standard. (Remember the old help
Eric Auer wrote:
Hi, try loading SHARE, for file sharing and locking:
http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~eric/stuff/soft/by-others/freedos-share-04may2004.zip
or use an older version. Try with FAT16 if FAT32 is a problem. Do not forget
to try loading network / ... drivers low, loading them into UMB can gi
Hi, try loading SHARE, for file sharing and locking:
http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~eric/stuff/soft/by-others/freedos-share-04may2004.zip
or use an older version. Try with FAT16 if FAT32 is a problem. Do not forget
to try loading network / ... drivers low, loading them into UMB can give
spurious erro
On Tue, 11 May 2004 15:01:28 +0200, you wrote:
Hi,
>well... when i turn on my pc, the green led of the cdrom reader blinks, the
>tray opens and closes regularly but i cannot read any data from there. i
>tried this morning to connect the cdrom to a pc with win98. bios detected
>the device on boot
hi,
i did a floppy disk based on freedos and mstcp to boot, mount from a
samba and run a clipper program.
samba with kernel oplock disabled.
but it can't lock, it waits for ever.
replacing kernel/command with win95's it works but with freedos
1.0-something it doesn't.
any idea? if i can help yo
hello,
first of all, thank u for yr prompt reply
> > i downloaded freedos Beta 9RC5 and i tried to install on a pc with a
> > creative 52x cd5233e.
> >
> > i used a boot floppy because my pc doesn't boot from cdrom.
>
> which bootfloppy? downloaded/obtained from where?
i used
http://www.ibiblio
marco cavallini schreef:
i downloaded freedos Beta 9RC5 and i tried to install on a pc with a
creative 52x cd5233e.
i used a boot floppy because my pc doesn't boot from cdrom.
which bootfloppy? downloaded/obtained from where?
the result is: error on access to the cdrom, nothing installed and the
hi all,
i'm a new freedos user, if i can say this.
i downloaded freedos Beta 9RC5 and i tried to install on a pc with a
creative 52x cd5233e.
i used a boot floppy because my pc doesn't boot from cdrom.
the result is: error on access to the cdrom, nothing installed and the cdrom
is damaged and d
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