Fdisk
Hi I dont know whether this is thet case for evey one but for the last couple of versions of elks I have not been able to get fdisk to work. It gives me error opening /dev/hda1 or somhing like that. I have tried fdisk with both the distribution images and I have tryed to compile it and then use it. but no luck. I have tryed this on 3 pc's and it still does not work. The last time I got elks fdisk to work was with an old distribution 0.7something. Anyway does this happen to anyone else, and if so how did you solve it? Or is it just a plan old bug? The reson for this is that I want to install elks to a hd and not have to use the boot disk. tom __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
RE: Anybody using this list?
hi >That program (named test.com) I actually have a T1800 NOT a T1200 anyway here is the test3.exe that it uses to change the settings. If anyone wants to disasemble it they can, I am NOT going to. tom __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com Test3.exe
Re: herc & vga (was: Re: your mail)
hi >I would offer to test it, but I'm not sure if I will have the time... >Anyway, >if you write something that "likely works", send me the diffs I'll try >to find the time to put a herc into a vga machine and test it. I will test it seen as though I wanted it done and I have a machine with a herc and vga card in. tom __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
herc & vga (was: Re: your mail)
On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 04:17:00PM +0100, Alistair Riddoch wrote: > > writes a '0' to the herc and a '1' to the vga. > > Is it as simple as having a VGA card and a herc, and just writing to them > both separatly? I would have thought there would be problems with > initialising the hardware, and detecting which was present. I swear it is that simple. I've even used this method in main boot record code. > If it is this simple, then adding dual monitor as an option to the dircon.c > driver should be quite easy. The only sticking point is that I don't have a > herc card, or a mono monitor. I would offer to test it, but I'm not sure if I will have the time... Anyway, if you write something that "likely works", send me the diffs I'll try to find the time to put a herc into a vga machine and test it. k. -- Kovacs Kristof Systems Programmer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kkovacs.monortel.hu
RE: Anybody using this list?
On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Greg Haerr wrote: > On Wednesday, September 29, 1999 3:25 PM, Thomas Stewart >[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > : hi > : > : I've got one of those T1200's, prity old, now if I remember right, when I > : got it it had a, (deep breath) ms-dos programm that changed the settings > : that one would usually change in the bois. God knows where the prog came > : from, but if anyone is interested, give me a shout. > : > I tried it. That program (named test.com) allowed the bios > setting to change, but it was only active when MSDOS was running, so > it didn't work. > Maybe the settings are reset at a reboot. (When rebooting into elks.) Then maybe one could get it to work anyway, if someone disassembles the program to find out what it is doing, and then incorporate that into ELKS. (Or do you mean there must be something in a particular vendorshipped version of DOS that makes use of these BIOS settings?) Jakob
