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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

FreeDOS will not boot at all on one of our computers, a pentium with Intel 
166MHz cpu.  Linux works fine there except that one of my 84-key keyboards 
does not work with linux on there - the computer works with DOS, and the 
keyboard works in linux on another computer made the same year (1997). 
Has anyone else had either of these problems?

You probably cannot switch from DR-DOS to FreeDOS and preserve the files 
on the partition you are re-sysing.  We will probably copy them between 
partitions, delete and remake the partition, reformat with FreeDOS, then 
copy back the files.  Has anyone tried this approach?

You can switch from MS-DOS to FreeDOS and preserve the files.  If you boot 
with MS-DOS floppy boot disk to a DR-DOS-formatted computer, the first 
partition disappears and the others contain gibberish file names.  A 200MB 
drive will have one 3G gibberish file on it.  Why?

I don't recall if FreeDOS acts the same way with DR-DOS.  The computer we 
we set up to check such things won't work with FreeDOS.  Should I report 
this as a bug?


keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org
SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org