Mail Archives: opendos/1999/03/10/11:44:20
<< To be fair, I think the problem you're having isn't
really with DR DOS per se (the DR DOS kernel,) but with
DRI's FDISK (an associated utility program.) >> --raster AT highfiber DOT com
Hi, Charles. I agree (100%) that dr-dos 7.02 beta FDISK,
not the kernel, is the prob--alas [a trashed C: after
booting with MS DOS and making calls to C:].
<< If I find some free time this week, I'll try to recreate
the problem, using the DR DOS FDISK program on both DR DOS
7.02 and MS-DOS 6.22. >>
I'd *love* to know if the prob is local. If your hdd is
dr-dos beta 7.02 FDISK'd, all you really need do is boot with
an MS DOS floppy and get a dir of C:. If my experience is
any guide, if the dir is scrambled and you make no other
calls to C:, when you reboot with dr-dos the partition
will be OK. But even a set command that involves C: will
leave the partition wrecked. A dir of E:, where my win95
cab files are, was *not* scrambled by an MS DOS dir command
(go figure).
I haven't tried FDISK'ing a C:\OLDMBR.BIN for restoration
purposes. If everything else in C: is trashed, why wouldn't
that file be too? All I keep on C: are necessary system
files--not even COMMAND.COM--and a swap subdir, so
rebuilding C: is a yawn (reformat with a rescue-floppy
six-line .bat).
The MS DOS releases at issue in my case are problematic. My
last MS DOS was v3. The ones that have caused the problem
are the undifferentiated MS DOS 6 that powers the Compaq
setup/diags firmware and the win95 install boot floppy
MS DOS that VER's as "Windows 95 [version 4.00.950]."
<< If I can duplicate it, I'll write out a nice detailed bug
report for Caldera. Kinda hate to do that, because I still
haven't *paid* for Caldera's release of DR DOS, but it's a
fairly serious problem. >>
Well, the prob is serious to *me*, and I'll be delighted if
you find time to determine whether it is mine alone. Caldera
seems to invite beta reports without regard to purchase. ...
Ciao. --Fisher
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