Re: [Freedos-user] chkdsk broken?

2009-04-03 Thread Christian Groessler
--- Blair Campbell schrieb am Fr, 3.4.2009: > IIRC chkdsk does not support FAT32 filesystems. This might > be your issue. No, it's a FAT16 filesystem. When I boot MS-DOS 6.22 from CD it can read it fine and its chkdsk doesn't report any problems. chris

[Freedos-user] MSCLIENT problems

2009-04-02 Thread Christian Groessler
Hi, again using FreeDOS 1.0... I cannot copy files to network drives. Making a directory on a network drive works, as well as removing it ("md" and "rd"). But when I try to copy a file onto the network drive I get an error. This is with both Samba and WinXP servers. (The error messages are diff

Re: [Freedos-user] network drive

2009-04-02 Thread Christian Groessler
--- Christian Masloch schrieb am Do, 2.4.2009: > > Umm, yes it does after you modified a drive's CDS to > show that it's a > redirected drive. So get familiar with some of the data > described at > Int21.52 (MS-DOS 4+ CDS and SFT, MS-DOS 5+ List of Lists) > and some of the > Int2F.12 func

[Freedos-user] chkdsk broken?

2009-04-02 Thread Christian Groessler
Hi, I'm using FreeDOS 1.0. When I run "dosfsck c:" it reports everything ok: dosfsck 2.11.DOS, 15 Apr 2006, FAT32, LFN c:: 4191 files, 6623/62597 clusters When I run "chkdsk" it reports many problems: ChkDsk beta 0.9 Copyright 2002, 2003 Imre Leber under the GNU GPL \KERNEL.SYS has an inva

Re: [Freedos-user] network drive

2009-03-30 Thread Christian Groessler
> >> If you want you can setup a FTP server on DOS > running as > >> TSR in background. > >> > http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a0503736/php/drdoswiki/index.php?n=Main.Servers > > > > ?? This is a completely different topic. > > No, since you asked for connecting to file server share in > a modern

Re: [Freedos-user] network drive

2009-03-30 Thread Christian Groessler
Hi, > If you want you can setup a FTP server on DOS running as > TSR in background. > http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a0503736/php/drdoswiki/index.php?n=Main.Servers ?? This is a completely different topic. > msclient is nice to mount a remote server into a DOS device > letter, > unfortunately

[Freedos-user] network drive

2009-03-30 Thread Christian Groessler
Hi all, after having my FreeDOS installation basically up and running, I'd like to ask what the preferred method to connect to a file server share is these days. I'm currently using MSCLIENT to connect to a samba share, but MSCLIENT is a memory hog and I'd prefer a better solution. Back in the

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS silently writes to partition table?

2009-03-28 Thread Christian Groessler
Hi, > actually I would recommend to tell GRUB to not manipulate > the partition table at all. Why should it hide FAT from > Linux or XP? Why should it hide XP and Linux from DOS? > All three operating systems are smart enough to know the > drive letter from which they are booting, although I am >

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS silently writes to partition table?

2009-03-27 Thread Christian Groessler
Hello Christian, > Although it sounds strange if GRUB itself can't use the "hidden > extended" partition, I would also suspect this is done by GRUB, not > FreeDOS. I think there's actually no code in FreeDOS (kernel) to write > to the partition table, and if it was written by accident, it would

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS silently writes to partition table?

2009-03-27 Thread Christian Groessler
Hi Eric, > Note how the first partition changed from HIDDEN FAT16 to > NORMAL FAT16 and the active partition changed from NTFS to > FAT16. The change from 5 to 15 is from CHS extended to > LBA extended, you just used a very old software to display > your partition table. I also think that this hi

[Freedos-user] FreeDOS silently writes to partition table?

2009-03-27 Thread Christian Groessler
Hi, I have a machine with a 160GB drive, and many partitions with different Linux and Windows versions. I'm using grub as main boot loader. After booting FreeDOS (which resides on the first partition) the extended partition is marked as "Unknown". Partition table before: Device Boot Start