[Freedos-user] Installation Problem -> PANIC: MCB chain corrupted System halted

2006-06-04 Thread cherry chien
Dear I'm trying to install FreeDos on one system.   Firstly,I boot from CDROM as safemode,.  I 'm trying to make a bootable 2G-harddisk.   1. FDISK to create a FAT32 primary partition; 2. make the new partition active; 3. reboot; 4. use FORMAT C: /S to format.   After reboot from 2G-harddi

Re: [Freedos-user] Partition order

2006-06-04 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 3-Июн-2006 11:18 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (chris evans) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: ce> I always still wonder what the best order of partition types to use. ce> and have settled on in order (quadboot): 200mb NXDOS testing partition ce> (E:), DOS 2gb FAT16 (C:), 4-5gb WINXP NTF

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos installation

2006-06-04 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 4-Июн-2006 04:00 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lester Vedrox) wrote to "freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net" : LV> You can have up to three primary partitions and one logical partition. Wrong. To be precise: 4 primary partitions or up to 3 primary partitions and one extended partition with any qua

Re: [Freedos-user] Install has run amok on my hard drives

2006-06-04 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 2-Июн-2006 18:17 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Blair Campbell) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: >> >> I wanted FreeDOS to leave my Recovery Partition alone and to install itself >> >> on my D: drive. Instead, without any instruction from me, it has modified my BC> DOS (including FreeDOS)

Re: [Freedos-user] OpenGEM 5 freezes/hangs/locks on FreeDOS 0.9 SR2

2006-06-04 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 4-Июн-2006 13:46 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hupp) wrote to : JH> hitch I noticed is that a message flashed by at the outset - something about JH> TZ environment variable not found, I believe. This is dumb message from InfoZip. JH> But the installation did not JH> stop and seemed to fini

[Freedos-user] OpenGEM 5 freezes/hangs/locks on FreeDOS 0.9 SR2

2006-06-04 Thread John Hupp
I'll be posting this to the OpenGEM list next, but some recent issue there seemed to implicate the FreeDOS kernel, so I'm starting here. I just loaded OpenGEM 5 (full version) on a pure FreeDOS 0.9 SR2 machine (Pentium 100, 16MB, Mustang socket 7 motherboard). The only installation hitch I not

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos installation

2006-06-04 Thread Lester Vedrox
James, I'm not sure if you really got all your partitions right. The most common configuration is as follows. You can have up to three primary partitions and one logical partition. Each primary partition can be made "active" or "bootable" (which means the same thing). Most operating systems