From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed Jul 30 04:23:42 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id EAA24903 for mobile-outgoing; Wed, 30 Jul 1997 04:23:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id EAA24897; Wed, 30 Jul 1997 04:23:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id UAA21572; Wed, 30 Jul 1997 20:53:13 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199707301123.UAA21572@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: compaq armada and fdisk In-Reply-To: <199707300957.LAA11633@gvr.win.tue.nl> from Guido van Rooij at "Jul 30, 97 11:57:25 am" To: guido@gvr.win.tue.nl (Guido van Rooij) Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 20:53:12 +0930 (CST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Guido van Rooij stands accused of saying: > Michael Smith wrote: > > Guido van Rooij stands accused of saying: > > > I am trying to use fdisk (and fips) on a compaq armada 1130. Somehow, the > > > bootsector seems to be protected. Does anyone now here how to bypass > > > that? > > > > Hit the BIOS config and turn off "Virus Protection". > > I'm not an idiot ;-) No way of telling that from here 8) > There is no virus protection option on that Compaq Bios. Drat. How about antivirus software? Disk Mangler/Ezdisk oder etw.? Is it still protected if you boot from floppy? -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[