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Skriven 2006-08-07 20:30:00 av MARTIN ATKINS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av WAYNE CHIRNSIDE
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-=> WAYNE CHIRNSIDE wrote to MARTIN ATKINS <=-

 -> -=> WAYNE CHIRNSIDE wrote to PAUL ROGERS <=-

 ->  WC> dd'd te drive ( or rather tried to) as though it appeared to comply
 ->  WC> I never head the read - write heads move at all.
 ->  WC> fdisk - l  reports the drive's accepted the new partitioning, however
 ->  WC> on boot to a DOS 5.0 installation disk the system complains about
 ->  WC> a bad command interpreter and missing drivers in config.sys.
 ->  WC> What config.sys???

 ->  WC> Shouldn't be one.

 -> On the installation disk. That's where it is looking.

 WC> Nope, that's not where it's looking.

Yes that _is_ where it is looking.

 WC> It's complainng about not finding CD ROM specific drivers.

Poor thing.

 WC> The drive with that information and config.sys file on it is no longer
 WC> connected at all.

That's why it's looking on the installation disk for them.

 WC> What has to be happening is the hidden partition remains on the drive
 WC> and malicious software still in play.

There is no hidden partition. It is a figment of your and DOS 5.0s
imagination.

 WC> I need to go to Maxtor's site and find out how many blocks
 WC> there are suposed to be on this drive.

Total waste of time.

 -> Are you seriously trying to tell us you are having all this grief
 -> because you are trying to install DOS 5.0 on this machine?

 WC> Nope, not at all.
 WC> DOS is just one of several things that tipped me top a possible BIOS
 WC> virus.

Like what? Because you can't hear the hard disk heads doing a Mexican 
hat dance on the platters? Get a stethoscope. 

 WC> When I google win386.exe not found I found numerous references to
 WC> nasty BIOS viruses.

So now you have a nasty win386 bios virus? Geezas.

WC> The clues something was afoot in Linux were more subtle.

So subtle you can't describe them?

 -> What do you expect? DOS 5.0 was for 286/386 machines. It can't
 -> handle the disk size or the ram. If i had known this i could
 -> have told you from day one.

 WC> But knowing that I kept the first partition small.
 WC> Under 400 Meg.
 WC> Worked fine on my last hard drive.

That was probably because it was already partitioned for some
kind of Win distro. You have now zeroed it.

 -> There is nothing wrong with the disks or the bios. It's like
 -> entering a twenty your old cart horse in the grand national
 -> steeple chase and wondering why it dropped dead at the first
 -> fence.

 -> Forget DOS. Put the machine back together and partition it Linux
 -> ext2.

 WC> Sure, and spread this crud around so everyone can have a copy?

The only crud around that system is between the keybourd and the
chair.

Yea i know i shouldn't have said that but you would test the
patience of a saint.

 WC> Not until you explain away a customized config.sys file
 WC> not even on the hard drive proclaiming itself resident.

It's looking at the floppy.

 WC> Before the last partition attempt I theoretically zero'ed
 WC> and fdisk -l showed *nothing* on the drive.

Did you by any chance forget to plug it back in? If you zeroed
the thing then there wouldn't be anything on it would there?

 -> It may even explain why the system got screwed up in the first
 -> place. You don't build castles on sand.

 WC> As above, partitioned the DOSm for under 400 Meg as /dev/hda1.
 WC> Never posed a problem when I've done it before even on a larger drive.

As above.

 -> If you must have a DOS partition then make it with Linux but
 -> don't expect it to work just yet. Once you have a Linux
 -> partition you can start saving stuff to disk.

 WC> The one and only reason to have a DOS partition was another view
 WC> into this problem and recovery of some old files on a DOS
 WC> partitioned drive.

You have Knoppix you could mount the drive and use that to view 
the files.

 -> If you have a slave drive then so much the better. You can save
 -> stuff on that and not worry about losing it if at a later date
 -> you wish to format /dev/hda.

 WC> Slave's currently disconnected.
 WC> I've pulled the wires twice but will not be connecting it again.

<sigh> I give up.

 
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