[syslinux] help Microsoft Windows 98

Prof S W Damle swdamle at sancharnet.in
Tue Feb 9 20:04:12 PST 2010



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Subject: Re: [syslinux] help Microsoft Windows 98

Op 20100208 om 21:41 schreef Prof S W Damle:
> Hello,
> Tried hard to operate "Dos installer" from Win98se as follows, but NO
> success.-
>  
> Microsoft(R) Windows 98
>    (C)Copyright Microsoft Corp 1981-1999.
>  
> C:\WINDOWS>cd C:\unzipped\syslinux-3.84\dos
>  
> C:\Unzipped\syslinux-3.84\DOS>syslinux -sma -d syslinux o:
> syslinux: warning: cannot move ldlinux.sys
> syslinux: partition not found (-a is not implemented for logical
partitions)
>  

What is on / beyond the O: drive?
Was that drive formatted?


Stappers

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Hello Sir,
Repeated the whole procedure and following are the results for your
information:
------------------------------------------------------------------------
----Microsoft(R) Windows 98
   (C)Copyright Microsoft Corp 1981-1999.

C:\WINDOWS>format o: /s

WARNING, ALL DATA ON DISK
DRIVE O: WILL BE LOST!
Proceed with Format (Y/N)?y


Checking existing disk format.
Formatting 483.48M
Format complete.
System transferred

Volume label (11 characters, ENTER for none)?

  506,699,776 bytes total disk space
      409,600 bytes used by system
  506,290,176 bytes available on disk

        8,192 bytes in each allocation unit.
       61,803 allocation units available on disk.

Volume Serial Number is 366D-1007


C:\WINDOWS>C:\WINDOWS>cd c:\unzipped\syslinux-3.84\dos

C:\Unzipped\syslinux-3.84\DOS>syslinux -sma -d syslinux o:
syslinux: warning: cannot move ldlinux.sys
syslinux: partition not found (-a is not implemented for logical
partitions)
------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Thanks in advance.
Prof S W Damle




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