subject:"Re\: SSDT \- Any More Ideas"


Dear List -

I am having problems writing and performing bunzip on the image of FreeDOS

{If this is not a "Good Question", please tell me how to improve it.}

Here is what I did:

1] Plugged and unplugged the USB stick /var/log/messages told me it was 
/dev/sdf


2] Downloaded the image:
ethan@rosenberg:~$ ls -lt Downloads|more
total 1434800
-rw-r--r--  1 ethan ethan  32505856 Mar 20 14:02 FreeDOS-1.1-USB-Boot.img

3] Attempted a dd
 history |grep of

 dd if=/home/ethan/Downloads/FreeDOS-1.1-USB-Boot.img.bz2of=/dev/sdf1
 dd if=/home/ethan/Downloads/FreeDOS-1.1-USB-Boot.img.bz2 of=/dev/sdf1/
 dd if=/home/ethan/Downloads/FreeDOS-1.1-USB-Boot.img.bz2 of=/dev/sdf/
 dd if=/home/ethan/Downloads/FreeDOS-1.1-USB-Boot.img.bz2 of=/dev/sdf

mount: according to mtab, /dev/sdf1 is mounted on /media/usb1
rosenberg:/media# ls /media/usb1
rosenberg:/media# ls -l /media/usb1
total 0

I can't find the file. What have I done wrong?

Ethan


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Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??


See Below...

Dear List -

I am having problems writing and performing bunzip on the image of FreeDOS

{If this is not a "Good Question", please tell me how to improve it.}

Here is what I did:

1] Plugged and unplugged the USB stick /var/log/messages told me it was 
/dev/sdf


2] Downloaded the image:
ethan@rosenberg:~$ ls -lt Downloads|more
total 1434800
-rw-r--r--  1 ethan ethan  32505856 Mar 20 14:02 FreeDOS-1.1-USB-Boot.img

3] Attempted a dd
 history |grep of

 dd if=/home/ethan/Downloads/FreeDOS-1.1-USB-Boot.img.bz2of=/dev/sdf1
 dd if=/home/ethan/Downloads/FreeDOS-1.1-USB-Boot.img.bz2 of=/dev/sdf1/
 dd if=/home/ethan/Downloads/FreeDOS-1.1-USB-Boot.img.bz2 of=/dev/sdf/
 dd if=/home/ethan/Downloads/FreeDOS-1.1-USB-Boot.img.bz2 of=/dev/sdf

mount: according to mtab, /dev/sdf1 is mounted on /media/usb1
rosenberg:/media# ls /media/usb1
rosenberg:/media# ls -l /media/usb1
total 0

I can't find the file. What have I done wrong?

Ethan
==
Dear List

Should I format the stkick FAT16?

rosenberg:/media# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sdf: 4051 MB, 4051697664 bytes
125 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1021 cylinders, total 7913472 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xf8d6f7dd

Disk /dev/sdf doesn't contain a valid partition table

Ethan
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Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-03-20 Thread Gary Dale


On 20/03/13 05:17 PM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote:

See Below...

Dear List -

I am having problems writing and performing bunzip on the image of 
FreeDOS


{If this is not a "Good Question", please tell me how to improve it.}

Here is what I did:

1] Plugged and unplugged the USB stick /var/log/messages told me it 
was /dev/sdf


2] Downloaded the image:
ethan@rosenberg:~$ ls -lt Downloads|more
total 1434800
-rw-r--r--  1 ethan ethan  32505856 Mar 20 14:02 FreeDOS-1.1-USB-Boot.img

3] Attempted a dd
 history |grep of

 dd if=/home/ethan/Downloads/FreeDOS-1.1-USB-Boot.img.bz2of=/dev/sdf1
 dd if=/home/ethan/Downloads/FreeDOS-1.1-USB-Boot.img.bz2 of=/dev/sdf1/
 dd if=/home/ethan/Downloads/FreeDOS-1.1-USB-Boot.img.bz2 of=/dev/sdf/
 dd if=/home/ethan/Downloads/FreeDOS-1.1-USB-Boot.img.bz2 of=/dev/sdf

mount: according to mtab, /dev/sdf1 is mounted on /media/usb1
rosenberg:/media# ls /media/usb1
rosenberg:/media# ls -l /media/usb1
total 0

I can't find the file. What have I done wrong?

Ethan
==
Dear List

Should I format the stkick FAT16?

rosenberg:/media# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sdf: 4051 MB, 4051697664 bytes
125 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1021 cylinders, total 7913472 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xf8d6f7dd

Disk /dev/sdf doesn't contain a valid partition table

Ethan
First off, the boot image is a .bz2 file. That is a bzip2 compressed 
file. You need to unzip it to make it into an image file.


From reading the comments on the page for the USB download, it appears 
that you should dd the image to /dev/sdf. Apparently it contains the MBR 
and a partition table. Next you can mount the USB key partition 1 
(/dev/sdf1) somewhere and copy the bios update program and the updated 
bios file to it. Finally, reboot to the USB key and run the bios update 
program.



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Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??


  
  
On 03/20/2013 11:34 PM, Gary Dale wrote:
On 20/03/13
  05:17 PM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote:
  
  See Below...


Dear List -


I am having problems writing and performing bunzip on the image
of FreeDOS


{If this is not a "Good Question", please tell me how to improve
it.}


Here is what I did:


1] Plugged and unplugged the USB stick /var/log/messages told me
it was /dev/sdf


2] Downloaded the image:

ethan@rosenberg:~$ ls -lt Downloads|more

total 1434800

-rw-r--r--  1 ethan ethan  32505856 Mar 20 14:02
FreeDOS-1.1-USB-Boot.img


3] Attempted a dd

 history |grep of


 dd
if=/home/ethan/Downloads/FreeDOS-1.1-USB-Boot.img.bz2of=/dev/sdf1

 dd if=/home/ethan/Downloads/FreeDOS-1.1-USB-Boot.img.bz2
of=/dev/sdf1/

 dd if=/home/ethan/Downloads/FreeDOS-1.1-USB-Boot.img.bz2
of=/dev/sdf/

 dd if=/home/ethan/Downloads/FreeDOS-1.1-USB-Boot.img.bz2
of=/dev/sdf


mount: according to mtab, /dev/sdf1 is mounted on /media/usb1

rosenberg:/media# ls /media/usb1

rosenberg:/media# ls -l /media/usb1

total 0


I can't find the file. What have I done wrong?


Ethan

==

Dear List


Should I format the stkick FAT16?


rosenberg:/media# fdisk -l


Disk /dev/sdf: 4051 MB, 4051697664 bytes

125 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1021 cylinders, total 7913472
sectors

Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes

Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Disk identifier: 0xf8d6f7dd


Disk /dev/sdf doesn't contain a valid partition table


Ethan

  
  First off, the boot image is a .bz2 file. That is a bzip2
  compressed file. You need to unzip it to make it into an image
  file.
  
  
  From reading the comments on the page for the USB download, it
  appears that you should dd the image to /dev/sdf. Apparently it
  contains the MBR and a partition table. Next you can mount the USB
  key partition 1 (/dev/sdf1) somewhere and copy the bios update
  program and the updated bios file to it. Finally, reboot to the
  USB key and run the bios update program.
  
  


Gary -

Thanks.

I'm doing something wrong and can’t figure it out.


Downloaded and unzipped -
rosenberg:/home/ethan/DOSutil# ls -lh
total 32M
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  31M Mar 21 00:02 FreeDOS-1.1-USB-Boot.img
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 115K Mar 21 00:02
FreeDOS-1.1-USB-Boot.img.bz2

Attempt dd -
rosenberg:/home/ethan/DOSutil# dd if=FreeDOS-1.1-USB-Boot.img
of=/media/usbstick/FreeDOS-1.1-USB-Boot.img
dd: opening `/media/usbstick/FreeDOS-1.1-USB-Boot.img': Input/output
error

Where is my error?

Ethan

  



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Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-03-21 Thread Brian

I don't really know where you are coming from and what you want to
achieve because I tend to delete list mails in HTML only on sight.
Nothing personal, you understand - just pure laziness on my part :)

However, believe it or not, you are nearly there!

On Thu 21 Mar 2013 at 00:20:39 -0400, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote:

> 
> I'm doing something wrong and can’t figure it out.
> 
> 
> Downloaded and unzipped -
> rosenberg:/home/ethan/DOSutil# ls -lh
> total 32M
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  31M Mar 21 00:02 FreeDOS-1.1-USB-Boot.img
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 115K Mar 21 00:02

Agreed.

> FreeDOS-1.1-USB-Boot.img.bz2
> 
> Attempt dd -
> rosenberg:/home/ethan/DOSutil# dd if=FreeDOS-1.1-USB-Boot.img
> of=/media/usbstick/FreeDOS-1.1-USB-Boot.img
  ^^^
  ^
  ^
  This is your error. The image should be written to the device,
  which is /dev/sdf in your case.

dd if=FreeDOS-1.1-USB-Boot.img of=/dev/sdf

  Or

cat if=FreeDOS-1.1-USB-Boot.img > /dev/sdf

I usually check the image is an isohybrid one which can be written to a
USB stick with dd or cat.

   brian@desktop:~$ /sbin/fdisk -l FreeDOS-1.1-USB-Boot.img

   Disk FreeDOS-1.1-USB-Boot.img: 32 MB, 32505856 bytes
   64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 31 cylinders, total 63488 sectors
   Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
   Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
   I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
   Disk identifier: 0x00077d8f

  Device Boot  Start End  Blocks   Id   
System
   FreeDOS-1.1-USB-Boot.img1   *  32   63487   31728e  W95 
FAT16 (LBA

That's ok. The image contains a filesystem.


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Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-03-21 Thread Cybe R. Wizard

On Thu, 21 Mar 2013 13:17:14 +0100
Ralf Mardorf  wrote:

> Others and I asked Ethan several times not to post HTML and send mails
> to the list only.

Sending email after being requested not to is spamming.  Report it to
his ISP.

That /might/ work.

Cybe R. Wizard
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Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??


  
  


Ethan
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On 03/21/2013 07:19 AM, Brian wrote:

  I don't really know where you are coming from and what you want to
achieve because I tend to delete list mails in HTML only on sight.
Nothing personal, you understand - just pure laziness on my part :)

However, believe it or not, you are nearly there!

On Thu 21 Mar 2013 at 00:20:39 -0400, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote:


  

I'm doing something wrong and can’t figure it out.


Downloaded and unzipped -
rosenberg:/home/ethan/DOSutil# ls -lh
total 32M
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  31M Mar 21 00:02 FreeDOS-1.1-USB-Boot.img
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 115K Mar 21 00:02

  
  Agreed.


  
FreeDOS-1.1-USB-Boot.img.bz2

Attempt dd -
rosenberg:/home/ethan/DOSutil# dd if=FreeDOS-1.1-USB-Boot.img
of=/media/usbstick/FreeDOS-1.1-USB-Boot.img

  
^^^
  ^
  ^
  This is your error. The image should be written to the device,
  which is /dev/sdf in your case.

dd if=FreeDOS-1.1-USB-Boot.img of=/dev/sdf

  Or

	cat if=FreeDOS-1.1-USB-Boot.img > /dev/sdf

I usually check the image is an isohybrid one which can be written to a
USB stick with dd or cat.

   brian@desktop:~$ /sbin/fdisk -l FreeDOS-1.1-USB-Boot.img

   Disk FreeDOS-1.1-USB-Boot.img: 32 MB, 32505856 bytes
   64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 31 cylinders, total 63488 sectors
   Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
   Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
   I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
   Disk identifier: 0x00077d8f

  Device Boot  Start End  Blocks   Id   System
   FreeDOS-1.1-USB-Boot.img1   *  32   63487   31728e  W95 FAT16 (LBA

That's ok. The image contains a filesystem.



Brian -

Thanks.

Here is what I tried.

rosenberg:/home/ethan/DOSutil# ls -la /dev/sdf
brw-rw---T 1 root floppy 8, 80 Mar 21 01:15 /dev/sdf
rosenberg:/home/ethan/DOSutil# dd if=/home/ethan/DOSutil/FreeDOS-1.1-USB-Boot.img of=/dev/sdf
63488+0 records in
63488+0 records out
32505856 bytes (33 MB) copied, 10.2578 s, 3.2 MB/s

rosenberg:/home/ethan/DOSutil# ls /dev/sdf
/dev/sdf

rosenberg:/home/ethan/DOSutil# ls -la /dev/sdf
brw-rw---T 1 root floppy 8, 80 Mar 21 01:16 /dev/sdf

I am still TOTALLY CONFUSED.

Ethan

PS Again, my apologies for the HTML posts. It was not intentional.

  



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Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

On Thu, 2013-03-21 at 08:34 -0500, Cybe R. Wizard wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Mar 2013 13:17:14 +0100
> Ralf Mardorf  wrote:
> 
> > Others and I asked Ethan several times not to post HTML and send mails
> > to the list only.
> 
> Sending email after being requested not to is spamming.  Report it to
> his ISP.
> 
> That /might/ work.

No, I guess Ethan does it still "unknowingly" and I said, that he needs
not to care too much about it right now, so I share of the blame
regarding to the Cc'ing.

HTML is another issue, Ethan first didn't understand how to write plain
text, but until he was aware how to disable HTML, continuing should have
stopped, but even here I suspect a lack of knowledge. Perhaps Ethan
replied to HTML and then the MUA automatically switched from plain text
to HTML.

I _was_ pissed off, but calmed down. If Ethan writes around 10 mails in
HTML or by Cc'ing it's ok. If it should be more than 10 additional
mails, I'll filter mails from Ethan by my MUA.

Spamming is something different. Spamming is done with a bad intension,
Ethan seems to be unexperienced with computers or at least with MUAs.

So for me it's ok, no hard feelings. But I expect that Ethan and others
understand that I was a little bit annoyed.

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Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??


  
  
On 03/21/2013 07:19 AM, Brian wrote:

  I don't really know where you are coming from and what you want to
achieve because I tend to delete list mails in HTML only on sight.
Nothing personal, you understand - just pure laziness on my part :)

However, believe it or not, you are nearly there!

On Thu 21 Mar 2013 at 00:20:39 -0400, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote:


  

I'm doing something wrong and can’t figure it out.


Downloaded and unzipped -
rosenberg:/home/ethan/DOSutil# ls -lh
total 32M
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  31M Mar 21 00:02 FreeDOS-1.1-USB-Boot.img
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 115K Mar 21 00:02

  
  Agreed.


  
FreeDOS-1.1-USB-Boot.img.bz2

Attempt dd -
rosenberg:/home/ethan/DOSutil# dd if=FreeDOS-1.1-USB-Boot.img
of=/media/usbstick/FreeDOS-1.1-USB-Boot.img

  
^^^
  ^
  ^
  This is your error. The image should be written to the device,
  which is /dev/sdf in your case.

dd if=FreeDOS-1.1-USB-Boot.img of=/dev/sdf

  Or

	cat if=FreeDOS-1.1-USB-Boot.img > /dev/sdf

I usually check the image is an isohybrid one which can be written to a
USB stick with dd or cat.

   brian@desktop:~$ /sbin/fdisk -l FreeDOS-1.1-USB-Boot.img

   Disk FreeDOS-1.1-USB-Boot.img: 32 MB, 32505856 bytes
   64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 31 cylinders, total 63488 sectors
   Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
   Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
   I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
   Disk identifier: 0x00077d8f

  Device Boot  Start End  Blocks   Id   System
   FreeDOS-1.1-USB-Boot.img1   *  32   63487   31728e  W95 FAT16 (LBA

That's ok. The image contains a filesystem.



Brian -

Thanks.

Here is what I tried.

rosenberg:/home/ethan/DOSutil# ls -la /dev/sdf
brw-rw---T 1 root floppy 8, 80 Mar 21 01:15 /dev/sdf
rosenberg:/home/ethan/DOSutil# dd if=/home/ethan/DOSutil/FreeDOS-1.1-USB-Boot.img of=/dev/sdf
63488+0 records in
63488+0 records out
32505856 bytes (33 MB) copied, 10.2578 s, 3.2 MB/s

rosenberg:/home/ethan/DOSutil# ls /dev/sdf
/dev/sdf

rosenberg:/home/ethan/DOSutil# ls -la /dev/sdf
brw-rw---T 1 root floppy 8, 80 Mar 21 01:16 /dev/sdf

I am still TOTALLY CONFUSED.

Ethan

PS Again, my apologies for the HTML posts. It was not intentional.
===

OK found the file.  

rosenberg:/home/ethan/DOSutil# fdisk -l FreeDOS-1.1-USB-Boot.img

Disk FreeDOS-1.1-USB-Boot.img: 32 MB, 32505856 bytes
64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 31 cylinders, total 63488 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00077d8f

   Device Boot  Start End  Blocks   Id  System
FreeDOS-1.1-USB-Boot.img1   *  32   63487   31728e  W95 FAT16 (LBA)

I did not realize that fdisk -l  would find a file.

Now I copy the Bios executable to the usb stick and boot the laptop??

Ethan



  



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Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

On 03/21/2013 09:54 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:

On Thu, 2013-03-21 at 08:34 -0500, Cybe R. Wizard wrote:

On Thu, 21 Mar 2013 13:17:14 +0100
Ralf Mardorf wrote:

Others and I asked Ethan several times not to post HTML and send mails
to the list only.

Sending email after being requested not to is spamming. Report it to
his ISP.

That /might/ work.

No, I guess Ethan does it still "unknowingly" and I said, that he needs
not to care too much about it right now, so I share of the blame
regarding to the Cc'ing.

HTML is another issue, Ethan first didn't understand how to write plain
text, but until he was aware how to disable HTML, continuing should have
stopped, but even here I suspect a lack of knowledge. Perhaps Ethan
replied to HTML and then the MUA automatically switched from plain text
to HTML.

I _was_ pissed off, but calmed down. If Ethan writes around 10 mails in
HTML or by Cc'ing it's ok. If it should be more than 10 additional
mails, I'll filter mails from Ethan by my MUA.

Spamming is something different. Spamming is done with a bad intension,
Ethan seems to be unexperienced with computers or at least with MUAs.

So for me it's ok, no hard feelings. But I expect that Ethan and others
understand that I was a little bit annoyed.

Brian -

Thanks.

I understand that you were very angry. It is understandable. No hard feelings at this end.

Two questions.

1] What is a MUA?

2] Other than the HTML, am I posting "good questions"?

Ethan

Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

On Thu, 2013-03-21 at 09:51 -0400, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote:
> PS Again, my apologies for the HTML posts. It was not intentional.

But you still continue ;).

Unexperienced people are allowed to continue for a while and
intellectually disabled users should be allowed to do it always.

"PhD" IMO indicates that you are unexperienced, but able to learn. So
after a while there's no excuse to continue doing it.


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Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

On Thu, 2013-03-21 at 15:15 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> lmgtfy.com/?q=wiki+mua

http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=wiki+mua



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Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

On Thu, 2013-03-21 at 10:05 -0400, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote:
> 1] What is a MUA?
> 
> 2] Other than the HTML, am I posting "good questions"?
> 
> Ethan

Oops, I don't get duplicates, but the mails are sorted to a wrong folder
here. Please only reply to the list.

MUA is for Mail User Agent, in other words it's your mail client, aka
mailer.

lmgtfy.com/?q=wiki+mua

You're questions are ok, but stop replying in HTML and trim your posts.
If somebody needs to read the whole thread, there still is the mailing
list archive.

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Re: SSDT - Any More Ideas


Dear List -

Copied the executable to the usb stick and can't find it -

rosenberg:/home/ethan/DOSutil# cp ../Downloads/D630_A18.exe /dev/sdf1
rosenberg:/home/ethan/DOSutil# ls -la /dev/sdf1
rosenberg:/home/ethan/DOSutil# ls -la /dev/sdf1
brw-rw---T 1 root floppy 8, 81 Mar 21 10:29 /dev/sdf1
rosenberg:/home/ethan/DOSutil# fdisk -l  D630_A18.exe
rosenberg:/home/ethan/DOSutil#

Where is my mistake?

Ethan


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Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-03-21 Thread Gary Dale


On 21/03/13 10:00 AM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote:

On 03/21/2013 07:19 AM, Brian wrote:

I don't really know where you are coming from and what you want to
achieve because I tend to delete list mails in HTML only on sight.
Nothing personal, you understand - just pure laziness on my part :)

However, believe it or not, you are nearly there!

On Thu 21 Mar 2013 at 00:20:39 -0400, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote:


 
 I'm doing something wrong and can’t figure it out.
 
 
 Downloaded and unzipped -
 rosenberg:/home/ethan/DOSutil# ls -lh
 total 32M
 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  31M Mar 21 00:02 FreeDOS-1.1-USB-Boot.img
 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 115K Mar 21 00:02

Agreed.


 FreeDOS-1.1-USB-Boot.img.bz2
 
 Attempt dd -
 rosenberg:/home/ethan/DOSutil# dd if=FreeDOS-1.1-USB-Boot.img
 of=/media/usbstick/FreeDOS-1.1-USB-Boot.img

   ^^^
   ^
   ^
   This is your error. The image should be written to the device,
   which is /dev/sdf in your case.

 dd if=FreeDOS-1.1-USB-Boot.img of=/dev/sdf

   Or

cat if=FreeDOS-1.1-USB-Boot.img>  /dev/sdf

I usually check the image is an isohybrid one which can be written to a
USB stick with dd or cat.

brian@desktop:~$ /sbin/fdisk -l FreeDOS-1.1-USB-Boot.img

Disk FreeDOS-1.1-USB-Boot.img: 32 MB, 32505856 bytes
64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 31 cylinders, total 63488 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00077d8f

   Device Boot  Start End  Blocks   Id   
System
FreeDOS-1.1-USB-Boot.img1   *  32   63487   31728e  W95 
FAT16 (LBA

That's ok. The image contains a filesystem.


Brian -

Thanks.

Here is what I tried.

rosenberg:/home/ethan/DOSutil# ls -la /dev/sdf
brw-rw---T 1 root floppy 8, 80 Mar 21 01:15 /dev/sdf
rosenberg:/home/ethan/DOSutil# dd 
if=/home/ethan/DOSutil/FreeDOS-1.1-USB-Boot.img of=/dev/sdf
63488+0 records in
63488+0 records out
32505856 bytes (33 MB) copied, 10.2578 s, 3.2 MB/s

rosenberg:/home/ethan/DOSutil# ls /dev/sdf
/dev/sdf

rosenberg:/home/ethan/DOSutil# ls -la /dev/sdf
brw-rw---T 1 root floppy 8, 80 Mar 21 01:16 /dev/sdf

I am still TOTALLY CONFUSED.

Ethan

PS Again, my apologies for the HTML posts. It was not intentional.
===

OK found the file.

rosenberg:/home/ethan/DOSutil# fdisk -l FreeDOS-1.1-USB-Boot.img

Disk FreeDOS-1.1-USB-Boot.img: 32 MB, 32505856 bytes
64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 31 cylinders, total 63488 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00077d8f

Device Boot  Start End  Blocks   Id  System
FreeDOS-1.1-USB-Boot.img1   *  32   63487   31728e  W95 
FAT16 (LBA)

I did not realize that fdisk -l  would find a file.

Now I copy the Bios executable to the usb stick and boot the laptop??

Ethan


You previous problem was that /dev/sdf is a file representing a device. 
You need to mount the device in order to see what files it contains. You 
also need to do this to copy the files to it.


try:
 mount -t vfat /dev/sdf1 /media/usbstick
 cp  /media/usbstick
 cp  /media/usbstick

Note that /media/usbstick needs to exist. Also you should be root to do 
this (try su or sudo bash).

Re: SSDT - Any More Ideas

2013-03-21 Thread Gary Dale


On 21/03/13 10:44 AM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote:

Dear List -

Copied the executable to the usb stick and can't find it -

rosenberg:/home/ethan/DOSutil# cp ../Downloads/D630_A18.exe /dev/sdf1
rosenberg:/home/ethan/DOSutil# ls -la /dev/sdf1
rosenberg:/home/ethan/DOSutil# ls -la /dev/sdf1
brw-rw---T 1 root floppy 8, 81 Mar 21 10:29 /dev/sdf1
rosenberg:/home/ethan/DOSutil# fdisk -l  D630_A18.exe
rosenberg:/home/ethan/DOSutil#

Where is my mistake?

Ethan

You have probably wiped out the boot programs on /dev/sdf1. Go back to 
the start and follow the advice I gave you on my previous e-mail re. 
mounting.



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Re: SSDT - Any More Ideas

On Thu, 2013-03-21 at 10:44 -0400, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote:
> Dear List -
> 
> Copied the executable to the usb stick and can't find it -
> 
> rosenberg:/home/ethan/DOSutil# cp ../Downloads/D630_A18.exe /dev/sdf1
> rosenberg:/home/ethan/DOSutil# ls -la /dev/sdf1
> rosenberg:/home/ethan/DOSutil# ls -la /dev/sdf1
> brw-rw---T 1 root floppy 8, 81 Mar 21 10:29 /dev/sdf1
> rosenberg:/home/ethan/DOSutil# fdisk -l  D630_A18.exe
> rosenberg:/home/ethan/DOSutil#
> 
> Where is my mistake?

ls -lA /montpoint_of_the_stick

[root@archlinux rocketmouse]# mount /dev/sdc1 /mnt
[root@archlinux rocketmouse]# ls /dev/sdc1
/dev/sdc1
[root@archlinux rocketmouse]# ls /mnt
[root@archlinux rocketmouse]# touch /mnt/test.txt
[root@archlinux rocketmouse]# ls /dev/sdc1
/dev/sdc1
[root@archlinux rocketmouse]# ls /mnt
test.txt


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Re: SSDT - Any More Ideas


Dear List -

I am going to be on vacation until 3 April.

We'll continue this thread then.

Ethan


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Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-03-22 Thread Chris Bannister

On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 10:05:35AM -0400, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote:
> 1] What is a MUA?

You are using:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:10.0.12) Gecko/20130116
Icedove/10.0.12

That is your Mail User Agent.
Icedove is just a repackaged thunderbird.

> 2] Other than the HTML, 
Use plain text instead:

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Plain_text_e-mail_(Thunderbird)
http://forum.notebookreview.com/linux-compatibility-software/251394-how-do-i-set-thunderbird-work-plain-text-default.html
http://askubuntu.com/questions/100797/how-do-i-configure-thunderbird-to-send-plain-text-emails-by-default
http://email.about.com/od/mozillatips/qt/et100403.htm

am I posting "good questions"?

Don't be afraid to search google *BEFORE* posting your question, have a
read of:

http://catb.org/jargon/html/T/top-post.html


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Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-03-22 Thread Chris Bannister

On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 01:53:11AM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote:
> Don't be afraid to search google *BEFORE* posting your question, have a
> read of:
> 
> http://catb.org/jargon/html/T/top-post.html

G! Sorry. That should be:

http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

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Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??


Dear List -


Back from vacation.

HEADACHES!!

I formatted the usb stick as FAT16 loaded the DOS OS and the Bios update.

The laptop would not boot from the stick.  Set the boot parameters to 
boot from the usb stick.  Computer freezes.  Noticed that the laptop 
recognizes the usb stick at FAT32.


Formatted the usb stick and loaded the DOS OS.


fdisk -l



   Device Boot  Start End  Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1   *  32   63487   31728e  W95 FAT16 (LBA)


The directory /media/usbstick exists.

Can not create the directory for the bios.

rosenberg:/# mount /dev/sdb1 /media/usbstick
mount: you must specify the filesystem type
rosenberg:/# mount -t e  /dev/sdb1 /media/usbstick
mount: unknown filesystem type 'e'
rosenberg:/# mount -t vfat /dev/sdb1 /media/usbstick
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb1,
   missing codepage or helper program, or other error
   In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
   dmesg | tail  or so


If you need more information, please tell me.

Thanks.

Ethan



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Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-04-03 Thread Gary Dale


On 03/04/13 01:00 PM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote:

Dear List -


Back from vacation.

HEADACHES!!

I formatted the usb stick as FAT16 loaded the DOS OS and the Bios update.

The laptop would not boot from the stick.  Set the boot parameters to 
boot from the usb stick.  Computer freezes.  Noticed that the laptop 
recognizes the usb stick at FAT32.


Formatted the usb stick and loaded the DOS OS.


fdisk -l



   Device Boot  Start End  Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1   *  32   63487   31728e  W95 FAT16 (LBA)


The directory /media/usbstick exists.

Can not create the directory for the bios.

rosenberg:/# mount /dev/sdb1 /media/usbstick
mount: you must specify the filesystem type
rosenberg:/# mount -t e  /dev/sdb1 /media/usbstick
mount: unknown filesystem type 'e'
rosenberg:/# mount -t vfat /dev/sdb1 /media/usbstick
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb1,
   missing codepage or helper program, or other error
   In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
   dmesg | tail  or so


If you need more information, please tell me.

Thanks.

Ethan


I'm confused about why the usb stick isn't mounted automatically. Most 
are. However the partition type and the file system are two different 
things.


I'm not sure that the file system is actually correct. Did you format it 
using mkdosfs -F 16 /dev/sdb1 or did you use some other command?


Once is it correctly formatted, you should have no trouble mounting it.



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Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??


On 03/04/13 01:00 PM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote:

Dear List -


Back from vacation.

HEADACHES!!

I formatted the usb stick as FAT16 loaded the DOS OS and the Bios update.

The laptop would not boot from the stick.  Set the boot parameters to
boot from the usb stick.  Computer freezes.  Noticed that the laptop
recognizes the usb stick at FAT32.

Formatted the usb stick and loaded the DOS OS.


fdisk -l



   Device Boot  Start End  Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1   *  32   63487   31728e  W95 FAT16 (LBA)


The directory /media/usbstick exists.

Can not create the directory for the bios.

rosenberg:/# mount /dev/sdb1 /media/usbstick
mount: you must specify the filesystem type
rosenberg:/# mount -t e  /dev/sdb1 /media/usbstick
mount: unknown filesystem type 'e'
rosenberg:/# mount -t vfat /dev/sdb1 /media/usbstick
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb1,
   missing codepage or helper program, or other error
   In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
   dmesg | tail  or so


If you need more information, please tell me.

Thanks.

Ethan


I'm confused about why the usb stick isn't mounted automatically. Most 
are. However the partition type and the file system are two different 
things.


I'm not sure that the file system is actually correct. Did you format it 
using mkdosfs -F 16 /dev/sdb1 or did you use some other command?


Once is it correctly formatted, you should have no trouble mounting it.

===

Gary -

BEAUTIFUL!!

Corrected file system, installed bios update program, booted other 
laptop from usb stick, updated bioos..


Crying!!!

Problem still persists!!!

Still crying.

Ethan




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Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-04-03 Thread Brian

On Wed 03 Apr 2013 at 13:00:05 -0400, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote:

> HEADACHES!!
> 
> I formatted the usb stick as FAT16 loaded the DOS OS and the Bios update.

At this stage we are left to guess.

1. What do you mean by formatting the usb stick? If you used dd
afterwards, any formatting was a waste of time?

2. What do you mean by ***loading*** the DOS OS?

In the two cases you should give the commands you used.

> 

You are seeking help but you omit part of the output of the command. Is
this another guessing game? Please do not do that; you give evryihing
you get and we decide.

>Device Boot  Start End  Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sdb1   *  32   63487   31728e  W95 FAT16 (LBA)

In isolation, and without knowing exactly how you got here. this looks
ok.

> rosenberg:/# mount /dev/sdb1 /media/usbstick
> mount you must specify the filesystem type

There is a possible reason for this, but I 'd rather see your response
to what is above before advancing it.

> rosenberg:/# mount -t e  /dev/sdb1 /media/usbstick
> mount: unknown filesystem type 'e'

A rubbish command. "e" is not a filesystem. Forget about it.

> rosenberg:/# mount -t vfat /dev/sdb1 /media/usbstick
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb1,
>missing codepage or helper program, or other error
>In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
>dmesg | tail  or so

Please see above.

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Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-04-03 Thread Lisi Reisz

On Wednesday 03 April 2013 21:54:27 Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote:
> On 03/04/13 01:00 PM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote:
> > Dear List -
> >
> >
> > Back from vacation.
> >
> > HEADACHES!!
> >
> > I formatted the usb stick as FAT16 loaded the DOS OS and the Bios update.
> >
> > The laptop would not boot from the stick.  Set the boot parameters to
> > boot from the usb stick.  Computer freezes.  Noticed that the laptop
> > recognizes the usb stick at FAT32.
> >
> > Formatted the usb stick and loaded the DOS OS.
> >
> >
> > fdisk -l
> >
> > 
> >
> >Device Boot  Start End  Blocks   Id  System
> > /dev/sdb1   *  32   63487   31728e  W95 FAT16 (LBA)
> >
> >
> > The directory /media/usbstick exists.
> >
> > Can not create the directory for the bios.
> >
> > rosenberg:/# mount /dev/sdb1 /media/usbstick
> > mount: you must specify the filesystem type
> > rosenberg:/# mount -t e  /dev/sdb1 /media/usbstick
> > mount: unknown filesystem type 'e'
> > rosenberg:/# mount -t vfat /dev/sdb1 /media/usbstick
> > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb1,
> >missing codepage or helper program, or other error
> >In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
> >dmesg | tail  or so
> >
> >
> > If you need more information, please tell me.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Ethan
>
> I'm confused about why the usb stick isn't mounted automatically. Most
> are. However the partition type and the file system are two different
> things.
>
> I'm not sure that the file system is actually correct. Did you format it
> using mkdosfs -F 16 /dev/sdb1 or did you use some other command?
>
On Wednesday 03 April 2013 21:54:27 Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote:
> On 03/04/13 01:00 PM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote:
> > Dear List -
> >
> >
> > Back from vacation.
> >
> > HEADACHES!!
> >
> > I formatted the usb stick as FAT16 loaded the DOS OS and the Bios update.
> >
> > The laptop would not boot from the stick.  Set the boot parameters to
> > boot from the usb stick.  Computer freezes.  Noticed that the laptop
> > recognizes the usb stick at FAT32.
> >
> > Formatted the usb stick and loaded the DOS OS.
> >
> >
> > fdisk -l
> >
> > 
> >
> >Device Boot  Start End  Blocks   Id  System
> > /dev/sdb1   *  32   63487   31728e  W95 FAT16 (LBA)
> >
> >
> > The directory /media/usbstick exists.
> >
> > Can not create the directory for the bios.
> >
> > rosenberg:/# mount /dev/sdb1 /media/usbstick
> > mount: you must specify the filesystem type
> > rosenberg:/# mount -t e  /dev/sdb1 /media/usbstick
> > mount: unknown filesystem type 'e'
> > rosenberg:/# mount -t vfat /dev/sdb1 /media/usbstick
> > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb1,
> >missing codepage or helper program, or other error
> >In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
> >dmesg | tail  or so
> >
> >
> > If you need more information, please tell me.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Ethan
>
> I'm confused about why the usb stick isn't mounted automatically. Most
> are. However the partition type and the file system are two different
> things.
>
> I'm not sure that the file system is actually correct. Did you format it
> using mkdosfs -F 16 /dev/sdb1 or did you use some other command?
>
> Once is it correctly formatted, you should have no trouble mounting it.
>
> ===
>
> Gary -
>
> BEAUTIFUL!!
>
> Corrected file system, installed bios update program, booted other
> laptop from usb stick, updated bioos..
>
> Crying!!!
>
> Problem still persists!!!
>
> Still crying.

Are you sure that the USB stick is not faulty?   Have you tried with a 
different USB stick or tried a flavour of Linux on this one?

Lisi


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Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

On Wednesday 03 April 2013 21:54:27 Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote:

On 03/04/13 01:00 PM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote:
> Dear List -
>
>
> Back from vacation.
>
> HEADACHES!!
>
> I formatted the usb stick as FAT16 loaded the DOS OS and the Bios update.
>
> The laptop would not boot from the stick.  Set the boot parameters to
> boot from the usb stick.  Computer freezes.  Noticed that the laptop
> recognizes the usb stick at FAT32.
>
> Formatted the usb stick and loaded the DOS OS.
>
>
> fdisk -l
>
> 
>
>Device Boot  Start End  Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sdb1   *  32   63487   31728e  W95 FAT16 (LBA)
>
>
> The directory /media/usbstick exists.
>
> Can not create the directory for the bios.
>
> rosenberg:/# mount /dev/sdb1 /media/usbstick
> mount: you must specify the filesystem type
> rosenberg:/# mount -t e  /dev/sdb1 /media/usbstick
> mount: unknown filesystem type 'e'
> rosenberg:/# mount -t vfat /dev/sdb1 /media/usbstick
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb1,
>missing codepage or helper program, or other error
>In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
>dmesg | tail  or so
>
>
> If you need more information, please tell me.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Ethan

I'm confused about why the usb stick isn't mounted automatically. Most
are. However the partition type and the file system are two different
things.

I'm not sure that the file system is actually correct. Did you format it
using mkdosfs -F 16 /dev/sdb1 or did you use some other command?

On Wednesday 03 April 2013 21:54:27 Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote:

On 03/04/13 01:00 PM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote:
> Dear List -
>
>
> Back from vacation.
>
> HEADACHES!!
>
> I formatted the usb stick as FAT16 loaded the DOS OS and the Bios update.
>
> The laptop would not boot from the stick.  Set the boot parameters to
> boot from the usb stick.  Computer freezes.  Noticed that the laptop
> recognizes the usb stick at FAT32.
>
> Formatted the usb stick and loaded the DOS OS.
>
>
> fdisk -l
>
> 
>
>Device Boot  Start End  Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sdb1   *  32   63487   31728e  W95 FAT16 (LBA)
>
>
> The directory /media/usbstick exists.
>
> Can not create the directory for the bios.
>
> rosenberg:/# mount /dev/sdb1 /media/usbstick
> mount: you must specify the filesystem type
> rosenberg:/# mount -t e  /dev/sdb1 /media/usbstick
> mount: unknown filesystem type 'e'
> rosenberg:/# mount -t vfat /dev/sdb1 /media/usbstick
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb1,
>missing codepage or helper program, or other error
>In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
>dmesg | tail  or so
>
>
> If you need more information, please tell me.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Ethan

I'm confused about why the usb stick isn't mounted automatically. Most
are. However the partition type and the file system are two different
things.

I'm not sure that the file system is actually correct. Did you format it
using mkdosfs -F 16 /dev/sdb1 or did you use some other command?

Once is it correctly formatted, you should have no trouble mounting it.

===

Gary -

BEAUTIFUL!!

Corrected file system, installed bios update program, booted other
laptop from usb stick, updated bioos..

Crying!!!

Problem still persists!!!

Still crying.

Are you sure that the USB stick is not faulty?   Have you tried with a 
different USB stick or tried a flavor of Linux on this one?

Lisi

=
Lisi -

Thanks.

The usb stick is OK.  The laptop I was trying to fix recognized it.  I 
used it to upgrade the bios.

The problem is that the problem w/ power management still persists.

Ethan

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Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??


On Wed 03 Apr 2013 at 13:00:05 -0400, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote:


HEADACHES!!

I formatted the usb stick as FAT16 loaded the DOS OS and the Bios update.


At this stage we are left to guess.

1. What do you mean by formatting the usb stick? If you used dd
afterwards, any formatting was a waste of time?

2. What do you mean by ***loading*** the DOS OS?

In the two cases you should give the commands you used.





You are seeking help but you omit part of the output of the command. Is
this another guessing game? Please do not do that; you give evryihing
you get and we decide.


   Device Boot  Start End  Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1   *  32   63487   31728e  W95 FAT16 (LBA)


In isolation, and without knowing exactly how you got here. this looks
ok.


rosenberg:/# mount /dev/sdb1 /media/usbstick
mount you must specify the filesystem type


There is a possible reason for this, but I 'd rather see your response
to what is above before advancing it.


rosenberg:/# mount -t e  /dev/sdb1 /media/usbstick
mount: unknown filesystem type 'e'


A rubbish command. "e" is not a filesystem. Forget about it.


rosenberg:/# mount -t vfat /dev/sdb1 /media/usbstick
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb1,
   missing codepage or helper program, or other error
   In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
   dmesg | tail  or so


Please see above.

=

Brian -

Sorry for all the confusion.

Disregard the above.

There is a subsequent email.

The above problem resuilted from errors in setting up the usb stick. 
That problem was solved.


Then 

Subsequent email...
===

BEAUTIFUL!!

Corrected file system, installed bios update program, booted other 
laptop from usb stick, updated bios..


Crying!!!

Problem [with SSDT] still persists!!!

Still crying.

Ethan
=

Hope this clarifies the issue.

Ethan






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Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-04-03 Thread Gary Dale


On 03/04/13 04:54 PM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote:

On 03/04/13 01:00 PM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote:

Dear List -


Back from vacation.

HEADACHES!!

I formatted the usb stick as FAT16 loaded the DOS OS and the Bios 
update.


The laptop would not boot from the stick.  Set the boot parameters to
boot from the usb stick.  Computer freezes.  Noticed that the laptop
recognizes the usb stick at FAT32.

Formatted the usb stick and loaded the DOS OS.


fdisk -l



   Device Boot  Start End  Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1   *  32   63487   31728e  W95 FAT16 (LBA)


The directory /media/usbstick exists.

Can not create the directory for the bios.

rosenberg:/# mount /dev/sdb1 /media/usbstick
mount: you must specify the filesystem type
rosenberg:/# mount -t e  /dev/sdb1 /media/usbstick
mount: unknown filesystem type 'e'
rosenberg:/# mount -t vfat /dev/sdb1 /media/usbstick
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb1,
   missing codepage or helper program, or other error
   In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
   dmesg | tail  or so


If you need more information, please tell me.

Thanks.

Ethan


I'm confused about why the usb stick isn't mounted automatically. Most 
are. However the partition type and the file system are two different 
things.


I'm not sure that the file system is actually correct. Did you format 
it using mkdosfs -F 16 /dev/sdb1 or did you use some other command?


Once is it correctly formatted, you should have no trouble mounting it.

===

Gary -

BEAUTIFUL!!

Corrected file system, installed bios update program, booted other 
laptop from usb stick, updated bioos..


Crying!!!

Problem still persists!!!

Still crying.

Ethan


At this point I'm at a loss. It's not a Linux problem but something 
related to your laptop. Have you tried the manufacturer's technical support?



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Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??


On 03/04/13 04:54 PM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote:

On 03/04/13 01:00 PM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote:

Dear List -


Back from vacation.

HEADACHES!!

I formatted the usb stick as FAT16 loaded the DOS OS and the Bios
update.

The laptop would not boot from the stick.  Set the boot parameters to
boot from the usb stick.  Computer freezes.  Noticed that the laptop
recognizes the usb stick at FAT32.

Formatted the usb stick and loaded the DOS OS.


fdisk -l



   Device Boot  Start End  Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1   *  32   63487   31728e  W95 FAT16 (LBA)


The directory /media/usbstick exists.

Can not create the directory for the bios.

rosenberg:/# mount /dev/sdb1 /media/usbstick
mount: you must specify the filesystem type
rosenberg:/# mount -t e  /dev/sdb1 /media/usbstick
mount: unknown filesystem type 'e'
rosenberg:/# mount -t vfat /dev/sdb1 /media/usbstick
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb1,
   missing codepage or helper program, or other error
   In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
   dmesg | tail  or so


If you need more information, please tell me.

Thanks.

Ethan


I'm confused about why the usb stick isn't mounted automatically. Most
are. However the partition type and the file system are two different
things.

I'm not sure that the file system is actually correct. Did you format
it using mkdosfs -F 16 /dev/sdb1 or did you use some other command?

Once is it correctly formatted, you should have no trouble mounting it.

===

Gary -

BEAUTIFUL!!

Corrected file system, installed bios update program, booted other
laptop from usb stick, updated bioos..

Crying!!!

Problem still persists!!!

Still crying.

Ethan


At this point I'm at a loss. It's not a Linux problem but something 
related to your laptop. Have you tried the manufacturer's technical support?



Gary -

Thanks.

Have you tried the manufacturer's technical support?  Now I will.

My gut feeling is that a software patch is missing.

Ethan

PS Anyone out there have expertise in Dell Laptops?



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Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-04-04 Thread Gary Dale


On 04/04/13 12:11 AM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote:

On 03/04/13 04:54 PM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote:

On 03/04/13 01:00 PM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote:

Dear List -


Back from vacation.

HEADACHES!!

I formatted the usb stick as FAT16 loaded the DOS OS and the Bios
update.

The laptop would not boot from the stick.  Set the boot parameters to
boot from the usb stick.  Computer freezes.  Noticed that the laptop
recognizes the usb stick at FAT32.

Formatted the usb stick and loaded the DOS OS.


fdisk -l



   Device Boot  Start End  Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1   *  32   63487   31728e  W95 FAT16 (LBA)


The directory /media/usbstick exists.

Can not create the directory for the bios.

rosenberg:/# mount /dev/sdb1 /media/usbstick
mount: you must specify the filesystem type
rosenberg:/# mount -t e  /dev/sdb1 /media/usbstick
mount: unknown filesystem type 'e'
rosenberg:/# mount -t vfat /dev/sdb1 /media/usbstick
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb1,
   missing codepage or helper program, or other error
   In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
   dmesg | tail  or so


If you need more information, please tell me.

Thanks.

Ethan


I'm confused about why the usb stick isn't mounted automatically. Most
are. However the partition type and the file system are two different
things.

I'm not sure that the file system is actually correct. Did you format
it using mkdosfs -F 16 /dev/sdb1 or did you use some other command?

Once is it correctly formatted, you should have no trouble mounting it.

===

Gary -

BEAUTIFUL!!

Corrected file system, installed bios update program, booted other
laptop from usb stick, updated bioos..

Crying!!!

Problem still persists!!!

Still crying.

Ethan


At this point I'm at a loss. It's not a Linux problem but something 
related to your laptop. Have you tried the manufacturer's technical 
support?



Gary -

Thanks.

Have you tried the manufacturer's technical support?  Now I will.

My gut feeling is that a software patch is missing.

Ethan

PS Anyone out there have expertise in Dell Laptops?


A missing software patch is unlikely since the error messages are 
occurring before the operating system loads.



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Re: SSDT - Any more ideas - Problems


Dear List -

I am not trying to spam the list. I am afraid that this message was not 
noticed/read since you might have thought it was a restatement of 
previous messages.


It outlines the problems that I am having with the USB stick.

Thanks.

Ethan
==

See Below...

Dear List -

I am having problems writing and performing bunzip on the image of FreeDOS

{If this is not a "Good Question", please tell me how to improve it.}

Here is what I did:

1] Plugged and unplugged the USB stick /var/log/messages told me it was 
/dev/sdf


2] Downloaded the image:
ethan@rosenberg:~$ ls -lt Downloads|more
total 1434800
-rw-r--r--  1 ethan ethan  32505856 Mar 20 14:02 FreeDOS-1.1-USB-Boot.img

3] Attempted a dd
 history |grep of

 dd if=/home/ethan/Downloads/FreeDOS-1.1-USB-Boot.img.bz2of=/dev/sdf1
 dd if=/home/ethan/Downloads/FreeDOS-1.1-USB-Boot.img.bz2 of=/dev/sdf1/
 dd if=/home/ethan/Downloads/FreeDOS-1.1-USB-Boot.img.bz2 of=/dev/sdf/
 dd if=/home/ethan/Downloads/FreeDOS-1.1-USB-Boot.img.bz2 of=/dev/sdf

mount: according to mtab, /dev/sdf1 is mounted on /media/usb1
rosenberg:/media# ls /media/usb1
rosenberg:/media# ls -l /media/usb1
total 0

I can't find the file. What have I done wrong?

Ethan
==
Dear List

Should I format the stkick FAT16?

rosenberg:/media# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sdf: 4051 MB, 4051697664 bytes
125 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1021 cylinders, total 7913472 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xf8d6f7dd

Disk /dev/sdf doesn't contain a valid partition table

Ethan
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Fwd: Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-03-20 Thread Marc Shapiro

Ooops!  This should have gone to the list.

 Original Message 
Subject:Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??
Date:   Wed, 20 Mar 2013 21:30:04 -0700
From:   Marc Shapiro 
To: erosenb...@hygeiabiomedical.com

On 03/20/2013 09:20 PM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote:

On 03/20/2013 11:34 PM, Gary Dale wrote:

On 20/03/13 05:17 PM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote:

See Below...

Dear List -

I am having problems writing and performing bunzip on the image of 
FreeDOS

{If this is not a "Good Question", please tell me how to improve it.}

Here is what I did:

1] Plugged and unplugged the USB stick /var/log/messages told me it 
was /dev/sdf

2] Downloaded the image:
ethan@rosenberg:~$ ls -lt Downloads|more
total 1434800
-rw-r--r--  1 ethan ethan  32505856 Mar 20 14:02 
FreeDOS-1.1-USB-Boot.img

3] Attempted a dd
 history |grep of

 dd if=/home/ethan/Downloads/FreeDOS-1.1-USB-Boot.img.bz2of=/dev/sdf1
 dd if=/home/ethan/Downloads/FreeDOS-1.1-USB-Boot.img.bz2 of=/dev/sdf1/
 dd if=/home/ethan/Downloads/FreeDOS-1.1-USB-Boot.img.bz2 of=/dev/sdf/
 dd if=/home/ethan/Downloads/FreeDOS-1.1-USB-Boot.img.bz2 of=/dev/sdf

mount: according to mtab, /dev/sdf1 is mounted on /media/usb1
rosenberg:/media# ls /media/usb1
rosenberg:/media# ls -l /media/usb1
total 0

I can't find the file. What have I done wrong?

Ethan
==
Dear List

Should I format the stkick FAT16?

rosenberg:/media# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sdf: 4051 MB, 4051697664 bytes
125 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1021 cylinders, total 7913472 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xf8d6f7dd

Disk /dev/sdf doesn't contain a valid partition table

Ethan
First off, the boot image is a .bz2 file. That is a bzip2 compressed 
file. You need to unzip it to make it into an image file.

From reading the comments on the page for the USB download, it 
appears that you should dd the image to /dev/sdf. Apparently it 
contains the MBR and a partition table. Next you can mount the USB 
key partition 1 (/dev/sdf1) somewhere and copy the bios update 
program and the updated bios file to it. Finally, reboot to the USB 
key and run the bios update program.

Gary -

Thanks.

I'm doing something wrong and can't figure it out.

Downloaded and unzipped -
rosenberg:/home/ethan/DOSutil# ls -lh
total 32M
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  31M Mar 21 00:02 FreeDOS-1.1-USB-Boot.img
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 115K Mar 21 00:02 FreeDOS-1.1-USB-Boot.img.bz2

Attempt dd -
rosenberg:/home/ethan/DOSutil# dd if=FreeDOS-1.1-USB-Boot.img 
of=/media/usbstick/FreeDOS-1.1-USB-Boot.img

dd: opening `/media/usbstick/FreeDOS-1.1-USB-Boot.img': Input/output error

Where is my error?

Ethan

If I am understanding what you are trying to do then...

If the usbstick is /dev/sdf then the output file of the dd command 
should be /dev/sdf (the unmounted device)  NOT 
/media/usbstick/FreeDOS-1.1-USB-Boot.img (a file in the filesystem on 
the mounted device).  The image IS a filesystem, which should be written 
to the device not to a file IN a filesystem ON the device

Marc Shapiro

Re: SSDT - Any more ideas -- SOLVED

2013-04-08 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD


Dear List -

Finally solved!!

I had removed the Bios battery [so I thought] {incorrect pictures and 
information on the internet #$%@}.


I then removed the real BIOS battery and the problem was solved.

My apologies for "running you around a tree". I learned a great amount 
from all of you.


Ethan


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Re: Fwd: Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-03-20 Thread Ralf Mardorf


Hi Ethan,

I'm a little bit pissed off, since I got mails in my private and in my
Debian folders and I'm not willing to puzzle the strange formatted HTML
mails. However, as already pointed out, but anyway with mistakes
regarding to input and output, ...

- compressed files first need to be extracted
- but then it's correct, that the input file is has got a path
- it might be that you have overwritten the MBR of your USB stick, if
  so, the partition table now is destroyed and you first might need to
  format it before you can continue ...

... I don't know, since I don't know how to make a bootable DOS stick

Sure, I can do your homework.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=free+dos+usb+stick+linux

then you will find among other hints, this one

http://tuxtweaks.com/2009/09/create-a-bootable-freedos-usb-drive-on-linux-with-unetbootin/

available by Debian, see

http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=unetbootin

I don't know if the howto is good, I don't know if it's working, because
I have to do my own homework. I'm willing to help you with your homework
if ...

- you stop sending me privately
- you stop continuing to send odd formatted HTML mails
- I even reply to HTML mails if they are sane formatted

Regards,
Ralf









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Re: Fwd: Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-03-21 Thread Brian

On Thu 21 Mar 2013 at 07:36:09 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:

> - it might be that you have overwritten the MBR of your USB stick, if
>   so, the partition table now is destroyed and you first might need to
>   format it before you can continue ...

Overwriting the MBR is the whole point of getting a bootable USB device
when dd'ing or cat'ing an isohybrid to a USB stick. Any formatting which
is done beforehand will be completely undone by the writing process.

> ... I don't know, since I don't know how to make a bootable DOS stick

You have the opportunity to learn how to from posts in this thread. :)

> http://tuxtweaks.com/2009/09/create-a-bootable-freedos-usb-drive-on-linux-with-unetbootin/

UNetbootin might be a fine progam but using it to write an isohybrid to
a USB device is using yesterday's technology.

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Re: Fwd: Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

On Thu, 2013-03-21 at 11:28 +, Brian wrote:
> You have the opportunity to learn how to from posts in this thread. :)

What's wrong with my posting style?



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Re: Fwd: Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

On Thu, 2013-03-21 at 13:03 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-03-21 at 11:28 +, Brian wrote:
> > You have the opportunity to learn how to from posts in this thread. :)
> 
> What's wrong with my posting style?

PS:

On Sun, 2013-03-17 at 21:53 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> I can't help you with this, perhaps somebody else does know how to
> continue
> 
Others and I asked Ethan several times not to post HTML and send mails
to the list only. When I received again duplicated mails in my private
mail and Debian list mail folders, formatted in HTML, after mentioning
that I can't help and I anyway try to help, by googling for Ethan, than
I don't understand what's bad with my mail.


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Re: Fwd: Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-03-21 Thread Brian

On Thu 21 Mar 2013 at 13:03:30 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:

> On Thu, 2013-03-21 at 11:28 +, Brian wrote:
> > You have the opportunity to learn how to from posts in this thread. :)
> 
> What's wrong with my posting style?

You are misunderstanding me. Style is not something I'm generally given
to commenting on.

You said you didn't know how to make a bootable DOS stick. I was hinting
that there are posts in this thread which would help you gain that
expertise.

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Re: Fwd: Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

On Thu, 2013-03-21 at 12:28 +, Brian wrote:
> On Thu 21 Mar 2013 at 13:03:30 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 2013-03-21 at 11:28 +, Brian wrote:
> > > You have the opportunity to learn how to from posts in this thread. :)
> > 
> > What's wrong with my posting style?
> 
> You are misunderstanding me. Style is not something I'm generally given
> to commenting on.
> 
> You said you didn't know how to make a bootable DOS stick. I was hinting
> that there are posts in this thread which would help you gain that
> expertise.

My apologies, I read "how to form posts" instead of "how to from posts".
Dyslexia and because I was still a little bit annoyed by Ethan's mails I
didn't read carefully enough.



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Re: Fwd: Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??