To:	opendos AT delorie DOT com
Date:	Mon, 18 Sep 2000 14:55:28 -0700
Subject:	Re: DRDOS FDISK
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From:	Robert W Moss <domanspc AT juno DOT com>
Reply-To:	opendos AT delorie DOT com

Thanks guys.  We have not had this much traffic for months.  I thought
everyone had 
gone into hibernation. 

I have not used the newest versions of DRDOS but I have used 3.1 & 5.0 &
6.0 & NDOS7. 
I only had troubles with 5.0 when upgrading from MSDOS2.11 /3.3. 

I also had a couple of notes on FDISK below. 

Thanks again, 
BOB 'DOMAN' MOSS "Eat chocolate every day!!!"

On Sun, 17 Sep 2000 11:15:41 -0600 "Patrick Moran" <pmoran22 AT yahoo DOT com>
writes:
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Charles Dye" <raster AT highfiber DOT com>
> To: <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
> Sent: Saturday, September 16, 2000 5:01 PM
> Subject: Re: DRDOS FDISK
> 

> snip <

> 1. FDISK, remove all unwanted partitions and logical drives.
> 2. Exit FDISK and COLD BOOT the computer. i.e. turn
>     off  the computer and turn back on.
> 3. FDISK and create the partitions you want.
> 4. Exit FDISK and COLD BOOT the computer.
> 5. Format using the /X /U parameters. (There is no /X for MS as far 
> as I
>     know. that is a safety feature for DRDOS to format a fixed 
> drive.

/n is used to designate a hard disk format.  I don't recall when it
started.

> 6. If it is to be the boot drive for an MS OS then also include the 
> /S
> switch.
> 
> I have either heard of or ran across something about using SYS.COM 
> to
> install the system files. I cannot recall what it was now, nor what 
> DOS or
> version of DOS may have had some problem with it. 
 Pat
> 

/s is an FDISK call for sys.com to add  the (3) three boot and system
files 
to the newly formatted drive.

Another funny thing was that when installing DRDOS5.0 it formatted your  
hard disk and you lost everything on the drive.  If you were upgrading 
you had to backup all your application data files and reinstall all your
apps, 
then restore your data files.




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