Re: DOS MBR

1999-07-07 Thread G. Crimp
On Tue, Jul 06, 1999 at 10:55:01PM -0400, William T Wilson wrote: > On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Felipe Alvarez Harnecker wrote: > > > Can someone send me a DOS Master Boot record so a can dd it to > > /dev/hda? > > No, but if you boot a DOS floppy then you can reconstitute it by running > (DOS) "fdisk /m

Re: DOS MBR

1999-07-07 Thread William T Wilson
On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Felipe Alvarez Harnecker wrote: > Can someone send me a DOS Master Boot record so a can dd it to > /dev/hda? No, but if you boot a DOS floppy then you can reconstitute it by running (DOS) "fdisk /mbr". Linux fdisk will not do this. This procedure will not alter your partitio

Re: DOS MBR

1999-07-06 Thread Konstantin Machow
try:dd man dd is interesting, but dangerous!! something like: dd if=/dev/hda /of=bootsec.bla bs=512 count=1 Ciao, Kotya > > Can someone send me a DOS Master Boot record so a can dd it to > /dev/hda? > > Please answer only if you realy know what i mean because i dont want > to alt

Re: DOS MBR

1999-07-06 Thread Jens Ritter
Felipe Alvarez Harnecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can someone send me a DOS Master Boot record so a can dd it to > /dev/hda? > > Please answer only if you realy know what i mean because i dont want > to alter the partition table. > > Send me version info as well. Unless it is a freedos mbr

Re: DOS MBR

1999-07-06 Thread Jonathan Hall
The DOS MBR will only be valid for you from a hard drive with the exact same paramaters and exact same partition table. (i.e. no one has one you can use). What you can do (I have done this before with success) is: (But beware, this is not guaranteed to work--I have also done this and failed) 1

Re: DOS MBR

1999-07-06 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
iOn Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Felipe Alvarez Harnecker wrote: > > > Can someone send me a DOS Master Boot record so a can dd it to > /dev/hda? > > Please answer only if you realy know what i mean because i dont want > to alter the partition table. I'm also interested in this, since I have a HD with the

Re: DOS MBR

1999-07-06 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 6 Jul, Felipe Alvarez Harnecker wrote about "DOS MBR" > > Can someone send me a DOS Master Boot record so a can dd it to > /dev/hda? > > Please answer only if you realy know what i mean because i dont want > to alter the partition table. > > Send me

DOS MBR

1999-07-06 Thread Felipe Alvarez Harnecker
Can someone send me a DOS Master Boot record so a can dd it to /dev/hda? Please answer only if you realy know what i mean because i dont want to alter the partition table. Send me version info as well. Thanks. -- __ Felipe Alvarez Harnecker