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roelandjansen / pcmos386v501

PC-MOS/386 v5.01 and up, including cdrom driver sources.
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creating a harddisk under vmware #1

Closed roelandjansen closed 5 years ago

roelandjansen commented 7 years ago

if vmware is used to build a harddisk based setup, you can use the image file as supplied.

Depending on the size of the disk you create, you cannot msys, format the disk at all and the command processor ($$shell.sys) will show weird characters incorrect sizes etc al.

I believe that fdisk/format/$$shell.sys needs some TLC here

Maybe issue #2 is also affected

Wack0 commented 7 years ago

Does this reproduce on an emulator of period hardware (like 86Box), rather than a virtualiser that provides a modern system?

roelandjansen commented 7 years ago

I presume it won't happen on older hardware and that sizing of disks etc causes this. I am not sure though. I can reproduce it under vmware workstation 12 for sure.

the-grue commented 5 years ago

Could someone with VMWare revisit this now that I have patched the 9 user image against the 2012 bug? The symptoms described above sound like the 2012 bug. If this is good now, we can close this issue, but I would like someone to verify it first.

ghost commented 5 years ago

I took the VMWARE defaults of an 8GB disk, then created a 2GB DOS partition on that. Rebooted, tried MSYS C:, and got a divide by 0 error.

I don't want to get distracted with this, because the 9 user live floppy image is weird to start with. It's not a true install set. I made a true install set from SHIPMOS, and that worked for me in VMWARE, so until it fails with VMWARE, I have little interest in fixing that weird 9 user floppy image.

roelandjansen commented 5 years ago

got it going with a small disk (40MB) and 64MB memory. Closing for now. Large disk support is probably somethig for the next life..