Sender: root AT delorie DOT com Message-ID: <3C07CB2B.3471F38A@earthlink.net> Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 11:08:43 -0700 From: Thomas A Webb Organization: Wordwonder.com - an E-zine X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.5 i586) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Subject: Fdisk and MBR - a question References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com I am attempting to use drdos boot and fdisk as a utility for installing slamdunk linux, and I've run into a puzzlement that perhaps you folks can help me with. When I attempt to replace the MBR using fdisk, I get an error to the effect that it can't save the old boot record, and the operation fails. Is there an unpublished feature, or do I need to go through the ordeal of writing a program in C to do this? The reason I need this is that my users don't have MS-DOS disks laying around (most are windoze jockies) and I need to be able to get a simple boot record installed. Thanks.. -- Tom Webb http://wordwonder.com