As a test, here's the same experiment with a 30MB disk image. Again,
it doesn't work with T2505 USB "Full" but does work with T2505 USB
"Lite":
> $ qemu-img create -f qcow2 small.qcow2 30M
..booting from T2505 USB "Full":
> C:\>fdisk 2 /auto
> C:\>fdisk 2 /info
>
> Current fixed disk drive: 2
Hi Eric
On Sat, May 3, 2025 at 5:47 PM Eric Auer via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
>
> Hi Jim,
>
> can you check which differences can be found in the FORMAT
> log when formatting does succeed? If I understand you
> correctly, things depend on from which drive you boot
> and / or which KERNEL version yo
Just to compare the same thing, I downloaded the T2505 USB "Full"
image and tried that. I re-created a fresh 'small.qcow2' disk image
(see previous email) and booted using the USB "Full" disk image as hda
and the small.qcow2 disk image as hdb.
FDISK worked okay, as before.
Rebooted, then tried to
Hi Jim,
can you check which differences can be found in the FORMAT
log when formatting does succeed? If I understand you
correctly, things depend on from which drive you boot
and / or which KERNEL version you used?
A FAT12 partition with 10k sectors is quite small, do you
get similar problems
I'm trying to set up a small (5MB) hard disk image that I'm going to
use for a coding experiment (so I can wipe it and start over without
damaging my other files).
1. When using the FreeDOS 1.4 USB image, FDISK can create a partition
on the new disk, but FORMAT cannot format it.
2. When booting f
Just an FYI…
I did upload the binary for FDRepo to IBIBLIO to verify the libraries on that
server were up to date.
No problem. It ran, complained about not having a configuration file and shut
down as it should.
I figured it would be. They recently upgraded the OS. But, you never truly know
