Re (2): [Oberon] Installing Native Oberon, ... continued.

Marius Amado Alves amado.alves at netcabo.pt
Thu Apr 21 01:58:02 CEST 2005


On 21 Apr 2005, at 00:40, shark at gulfnet.sd64.bc.ca wrote:

>> I deleted all partitions. Then when I got to Partitions.ChangeType I
>> was at a lost because it required a "from" type and I had none to 
>> give.
>
> Oouuch!
> "Partitions.Show ~" gives the type number of each partition.
> Here is another example.
> Disk: IDE0, 402MB, QUANTUM LPS420A
> IDE0#00    402MB --- (Whole disk)
> IDE0#01     39MB   6 DOS FAT16 >= 32M
...

You were not listening. I had no partition whatsoever. Only the "---" 
pseudotype. (I tried it just for the heck of it, but of course 
ChangeType is not that smart.)

>> I gathered from other posts here that Oberon
>> simply won't boot from disk.
>
> Booting from the first disk is easy!

Not here, and not at another poster's site.




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