Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2000 19:51:31 -0400 (EDT) From: Paul O Bartlett To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: Advanced DOS for Beginners (was: Re: How to unsubscribe) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: X-PGP-keyid: 0xF383C8F9 X-PGP-fingerprint: E62D2E2C7BCD08CB B742A93726A91532 Organization: SmartNet Private Account MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: opendos AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk 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. -- Paul mailto:bartlett AT smart DOT net .......................................................... Paul O. Bartlett, P.O. Box 857, Vienna, VA 22183-0857, USA Keyserver (0xF383C8F9) or WWW for PGP public key Home Page: http://www.smart.net/~bartlett