EDE - FDISK/MKFS PROBLEMS

EDE - FDISK/MKFS PROBLEMS

[Neil Holmes]

I think I have a defined set of steps which will overcome the filesystem
problem when making a fresh install of EDE. I have tried them a number of
times now using EDE-0.0.5, EDE-0.0.5a and also my 0.0.6 Candidate which I
have in Development at the moment. It has not failed thus far so I will
share it with you.

1. I have prepared a dos bootable floppy that contains, only, FDISK
2. Boot from the dos floppy
3. Run dos fdisk and create a dos partition
4. Reboot machine with EDE install disk in floppy drive
5. When EDE install goes into FDISK change the partition type (of the one
just created in dos) to type 80
6. Write the changes in ELKS fdisk
7. Quit Elks FDISK and the install of EDE should complete without a hitch.

A point worth noting for the filesystem developers. The above procedure only
seems to work if the ELKS FDISK, MKFS and kernel are from a much earlier
version of ELKS. I have been using my copy from 0.0.84 which is the kernel
version that the EDE install uses.

Hope this helps.

Have fun.

Neil