Very Computer

by **Rod Smi** » Wed, 04 Nov 1998 04:00:00

[Posted and mailed]

Quote:> I've downloaded the floppy image files for Debian 2.0. Unfortunately, when I
> open a DOS window or OS/2 window and execute rawrite2, I have a problem.
> Rawrite2 gets as far as telling me to insert the formatted floppy disk in my
> target drive (A:), then starts to work. However, it aborts with the
> following error message:

> "Attempt to DMA across 64K boundary"

I've successfully written Linux boot floppy .img files using the OS/2
LOADDSKF.EXE utility. This lurks somewhere on the OS/2 installation CD,
IIRC. It might be necessary to rename the file to have a different
extension, but I'm far from positive of that (it's been a while since I've
done this).

--
Rod Smith

http://www.users.fast.net/~rodsmith
NOTE: Remove the digit and following word from my address to mail me

by **John Thomps** » Wed, 04 Nov 1998 04:00:00

>I've downloaded the floppy image files for Debian 2.0. Unfortunately, when I
>open a DOS window or OS/2 window and execute rawrite2, I have a problem.
>Rawrite2 gets as far as telling me to insert the formatted floppy disk in my
>target drive (A:), then starts to work. However, it aborts with the
>following error message:

>"Attempt to DMA across 64K boundary"

>I'm wondering if this might be due to the fact I'm an OS/2 user. (Or could
>it be that my PC has a Cyrix P150 cpu?)

>For what it's worth, I used the same procedure with a Win NT machine (w/
>Intel PII) and had no problems.

>Any thoughts would be appreciated!

rawrite likes to run in native DOS. If you don't have any means
of booting to native DOS, don't despair; there is an OS/2 port of
the Unix "dd" utility that can write the disk images for linux
just fine, without using DOS of any form. Pick up "gnufutil.zip"
from hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/unix/util and enjoy...

Very Computer

OS/2 user getting rawrite2 error message

OS/2 user getting rawrite2 error message

OS/2 user getting rawrite2 error message