iachetta@ec.ecn.purdue.edu (Richard N Iachetta) (04/07/91)
I'm not sure if this has been mentioned before since I've only been reading since February but I'll say it anyway in case not and for newcomers who get DesTerm 2.00. The autoboot maker program trashes the file desdocs3.doc. The file is fine until autoboot is run, but after, it only loads to line 410. After recopying the file, the disk no longer autoboots. Has anyone figured out how to have desdocs3.doc and the autoboot at the same time? Rich Iahcetta iachetta@ecn.purdue.edu
rknop@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Robert Andrew Knop) (04/07/91)
iachetta@ec.ecn.purdue.edu (Richard N Iachetta) writes: >I'm not sure if this has been mentioned before since I've only been reading >since February but I'll say it anyway in case not and for newcomers who >get DesTerm 2.00. The autoboot maker program trashes the file desdocs3.doc. >The file is fine until autoboot is run, but after, it only loads to line 410. >After recopying the file, the disk no longer autoboots. Has anyone figured >out how to have desdocs3.doc and the autoboot at the same time? I noticed this too... or, at least, I noticed that desdocs3.doc got trashed. I didn't connect it with the autoboot maker, although that is consistent with what I observed. My solution: download the archive with all the docs in it again. Probably a better solution: run the autoboot maker on a blank disk, then copy all the DesTerm files over to it. -Rob Knop rknop@tybalt.caltech.edu
cs4344af@evax.arl.utexas.edu (Fuzzy Fox) (04/07/91)
In article <1991Apr7.012125.11379@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> iachetta@ec.ecn.purdue.edu (Richard N Iachetta) writes: >I'm not sure if this has been mentioned before since I've only been reading >since February but I'll say it anyway in case not and for newcomers who >get DesTerm 2.00. The autoboot maker program trashes the file desdocs3.doc. This is a danger when running any autoboot creator program. The autoboot sector is track 1, sector 0, and a good boot maker will check to see if that sector is in use by another file before using it. You're lucky that only a doc file was trashed. The best way to create an autoboot sector is to format a blank disk, then run autoboot on it. Then, check the directory, and it SHOULD show one less block free than it did before, ie, 663 for a single-sided 1541 disk, or 1327 for a double-sided 1571 disk. If it does not, that means that the boot sector has not been allocated by DOS, and when you copy files to the disk, it will destroy the boot sector when files reach track 1 (which is when the disk is about 600 blocks full). To correct this, try these commands: OPEN 15, 8, 15 PRINT# 15, "B-A:0,1,0" CLOSE 15 That should allocate the boot sector against being overwritten. Beware, if you validate the disk, this block will be freed up again, and can then be erased if you write more files to the disk. After you have a disk with the boot sector on it, filecopoy all the files to the new disk. -- David DeSimone, aka "Fuzzy Fox" on some networks. /!/! INET: an207@cleveland.freenet.edu / .. Q-Link: Fuzzy Fox / --* Quote: "Foxes are people too! And vice versa." / ---
root@zswamp.fidonet.org (Geoffrey Welsh) (04/09/91)
Richard N Iachetta (iachetta@ec.ecn.purdue.edu ) wrote: >I'm not sure if this has been mentioned before since I've >only been reading >since February but I'll say it anyway in case not and for >newcomers who >get DesTerm 2.00. The autoboot maker program trashes the >file desdocs3.doc. >The file is fine until autoboot is run, but after, it only >loads to line 410. >After recopying the file, the disk no longer autoboots. Has >anyone figured >out how to have desdocs3.doc and the autoboot at the same >time? Matt's a little out of touch at the moment, but I'll make sure that he finds out about this. I suspect that the disk has just filled to the outer tracks and that there's not much that can be done (aside of perhaps aborting the autoboot install if the block has already been allocated). -- UUCP: watmath!xenitec!zswamp!root | 602-66 Mooregate Crescent Internet: root@zswamp.fidonet.org | Kitchener, Ontario FidoNet: SYSOP, 1:221/171 | N2M 5E6 CANADA Data: (519) 742-8939 | (519) 741-9553 The mile is traversed not by a single leap, but by a procession of coherent steps; those who insist on making the trip in a single element will be failing long after you and I have discovered new worlds. -- me