Mail Archives: opendos/2000/07/09/19:51:43
This afternoon I downloaded DR-DOS 7.02 from Lineo to start to
take a look at it. Unless I overlooked something, I noticed that the
documentation was somewhere between skimpy and nonexistent, on that
site at least. However, I saved some old posts which have some URLs
for some other sites which may have docs (I prefer to read the
instructions before assembly), so I will take a look at them before
pestering people with a lot of questions.
But I do have a couple of items up front. It has been expressed
on this list that DR-DOS 7.02 is preferable to 7.03 due to some bugs
in the latter, which is why I downloaded 7.02. But that directory
on Lineo also has a subdirectory with a group of updates, I presume
bug fixes. (I downloaded them, too.) Does anyone have any comments
on the update files?
At the moment I have a fairly large C: drive. If a disk has only a
single partition on it, the old MS-DOS FDISK would in effect wipe out
existing files when partitioning it. Does DR-DOS's FDISK do the same?
I would suppose so. But I do want to keep Win98 around, and it would
be a major pain to try to back up and then restore hundreds of MB of
files. Any ideas? (My machine does have a 100MB-size Iomega Zipdrive,
but even so it would be a tedious operation, especially with the need
to make a new partition bootable if I want to be able to bring Win98
back up.)
Thanks in advance.
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