Phil McKerracher wrote:
I'm a little skeptical about this... the dd is known to blow away the
formatting and partitioning of your disk...
What I found was that DD appeared to complete, but with the symptoms I
described before - the 4801 would boot but not all the way. When I tried
On Dec 24, 2008, at 7:08 AM, Darrick Hartman wrote:
Phil McKerracher wrote:
I never did get physdiskwrite to work properly in Vista, even after
disabling UAC, setting win2k compatibility mode, running as
administrator,
using the -u option etc. It sometimes produced a card that appeared
Got it running - not sure what the problem was, but it's holding its
config now. The new interface is awesome!
Thanks to everyone who helped (including all the contributors, of course).
I'll make another donation when it's in service.
By the way, the company I work for (Symbian) is opening up
Hmmm... There are a few different versions of physdiskwrite.exe floating
around out there... Make sure you get the right one...
I got it recently from the m0n0wall site - I'll see if I can find some
others to try, but just using Ubuntu is probably the answer. I'm intending
to write all this up
Phil McKerracher wrote:
Yay! I got it to boot! I have my Christmas present. :-)
I had to jump through all sorts of hoops, which I will document later -
basically, clean and reformat the CF card in windows, THEN clean and
reformat it in Ubuntu, run DD, create and format the secondary partition
Many thanks for your suggestions, Philip.
Try right-clicking on physdiskwrite.exe and setting the compatibility
mode to XP+SP3 (or just plain XP)...
That didn't help (nor did Win2000 mode etc). In fact, I can find no way at
all of formatting the blank partition in Vista, even using diskpart -
Phil McKerracher wrote:
Many thanks for your suggestions, Philip.
Try right-clicking on physdiskwrite.exe and setting the compatibility
mode to XP+SP3 (or just plain XP)...
That didn't help (nor did Win2000 mode etc). In fact, I can find no way at
all of formatting the blank
Phil McKerracher wrote:
Hi, I'm back - some of you with long memories may recall that I tried
to get started with astlinux two years ago and gave up. (I couldn't
get the configuration to stick and had problems writing to my CF
card and ran out of time.)
Now I've lost the use of my ISDN
Hi, I'm back - some of you with long memories may recall that I tried to get
started with astlinux two years ago and gave up. (I couldn't get the
configuration to stick and had problems writing to my CF card and ran out
of time.)
Now I've lost the use of my ISDN PBX (due to termination of the
