From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 2 02:16:10 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id CAA26734 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 2 Jan 1997 02:16:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (gatekeeper.barcode.co.il [192.116.93.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id CAA26723 for ; Thu, 2 Jan 1997 02:16:03 -0800 (PST) Received: (from smap@localhost) by gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (8.7.5/8.6.12) id MAA04489; Thu, 2 Jan 1997 12:16:00 +0200 (IST) X-Authentication-Warning: gatekeeper.barcode.co.il: smap set sender to using -f Received: from localhost.barcode.co.il(127.0.0.1) by gatekeeper.barcode.co.il via smap (V1.3) id sma004487; Thu Jan 2 12:15:53 1997 Message-ID: <32CB8A89.DA4@barcode.co.il> Date: Thu, 02 Jan 1997 12:14:33 +0200 From: Nadav Eiron X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; SunOS 5.5 sun4m) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: jeanmarc@starfleet.umd.edu CC: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: instalation instruction References: <32CB73E1.4878@starfleet.umd.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jean-Marc Henriette wrote: > > Just a piece of info for you.. in the instalation instruction you > mention that you can only make a boot floppy from "dos mode." allthough > it will work, the user can also enter the regular DOS prompt mode and > type "lock" this will give him a warning that he's allowing programs to > access the drive directly to which he must say that he wants to (type y) > and then he can run rawrite without exiting windoze 95. > > Jean-Marc This was the topic of a long discussion here once. For some people, rawrite works in a normal Win95 command prompt without doing anything special (I myself am among those). For others, even DOS mode is not good enogh. The bottom line: whatever is written in the doc's, it will probably be wrong for some people. Nadav