The big dump

[paul moore]

Hi Molle,

 Thanks, that answered a lot of questions. I noted that it had the same
windows 95A type MBR as the system I was looking at. Unfortunately I didn't
get what OS it was partitioned with. If I were to take a WAG, I would say
it was NT-3.x with 256 byte sector partitioning. Any ideas? This is
probably a semi-fluke (?). It might still be a good idea to add a parameter
to dmraid that says, if you can't get this to work and all your
partitioning was done with some ancient windows OS, try this.
Any comments from anyone?

 Thanks,
  Paul


--- Molle Bestefich <molle.bestefich at gmail.com> wrote:

> Paul Moore wrote:
> > Actually any size disk will do. 2GB is fine. Was unaware you were using
> > an emulated drive. Never had the cash to try vmware myself. Was just
> > unshure of NT's ability to address available drives.
> 
> No need to cash out, you can download a trial at:
> http://www.vmware.com/vmwarestore/newstore/wkst_eval_register.jsp
> 
> There's also QEMU, which is free.
> 
> >> Do you want me to stuff data on the disk, or is it good enough if it's
> >> just partitioned from within NT?
> > 
> > Just partitioned is fine.
> 
> Ok.  I used an existing virtual machine which had one virtual
> harddrive already, so I just added another (blank) virtual drive and
> partitioned it within NT.  Added ½ GB of NTFS and ½ GB of FAT.
> 
> Screenshots, dd and fdisk output attached.
> 
> If you want another run with a bigger harddrive, let me know - VMware
> creates sparse files (or something similar), so 100 GB, 200 GB etc. is
> no problem.  They take up only a few kB's.
> 

> ATTACHMENT part 2 application/x-gzip name=NT4.tar.gz



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