Xref: utzoo comp.sys.atari.st:33940 comp.sys.atari.st.tech:1131 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!mcsun!ukc!axion!tharr!zebedee!geoffc From: geoffc@zebedee.tharr.uucp (Geoffrey Coan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st,comp.sys.atari.st.tech Subject: Re: Wanted: PC-Ditto I Help (the software version) Summary: PC-Ditto, ICD, dont work either ! Message-ID: <5875623@zebedee.tharr.uucp> Date: 13 Jan 91 15:25:04 GMT References: <278D6EC6.24119@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> Distribution: comp Organization: Geoffrey Coan Lines: 33 X-Version: Rodney's UUCP modules 05/09/90 V1.15 In article <278D6EC6.24119@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> johns@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Conan the Barbarian) writes: > In article cwilliam@mimsy.umd.edu (Christopher Williamson) writes: > >[...] > >I have gotten PC-Ditto to run, it recognizes 4 partitions on the hard > >drive (from the initial screen), I insert a DOS 3.30 floppy, which > >successfully boots and I am faced by an A> prompt. HOWEVER, when I > >attempt to FORMAT C: /S as requested it gives a divide by zero error. > >When I do an FDISK I get another divide by zero error. Help me! > >[...] > > Just type "SYS C:" and that will copy all the system files. I think > that should be enough to get you booted. I think SYS also modifies the > boot sector so that DOS can boot off of it. Either way, once you've done > that you could just copy your DOS files to drive C: ( you could even do the > copying from the desktop if you wanted ) and that's all it takes. > I have the same problem with PC-ditto on my ICD hard disk drive. I first thought it was due to having a C: partition too small. I've increased it to 6Mb and I still get the divide error whenever I try and access it (and this includes trying to SYS C:). > John Schmitt > johns@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca > ...!unet!utai!utgpu!maccs!johns Geoffrey Coan -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- are you ready to SKYDIVE ?? Geoffrey Coan well all right then, if you say so ... ..!ukc!axion!tharr!zebedee!geoffc <- UUCP'd from my ST via tharr; *free* UK public access to Usenet 0234 261804 ->