New OS Dev Enviroment

[Cjmovie]

Well, it seems windows hates 32-bit DJGPP . That is, Windows x64.

So what to do? FYI, I lost my WHOLE OS by accident when I formatted the wrong HD with NTFS. Oh well. Has happened at least ten times already.......

So? Has anyone an idea? Does MySys play well with windows x64 pro? I've used it to compile Torque before, but that's it.
Do they have 64-bit binaries avaliable?

[df]

did you try cygwin? djgpp uses nt's old dpmi which i dont think is present anymore in win64...

cygwin should work just fine tho. and msys too i would think

[Cjmovie]

Cool . Try it out Tmmrw.

[distantvoices]

and do yourself a treat and make backups of your work, so in case of accident or hardware malfunction you don't lose every bit of your work.

[Cjmovie]

Actually, I had made backups. The problem is that I had hadn't backed up the backups . I accidentally trashed the CD's.....



Now a MUCH more serious problem -- Partcopy doesn't work in x64! What to do?

[Ushma]

Now a MUCH more serious problem -- Partcopy doesn't work in x64! What to do?

Get a windows port of dd.

[0Scoder]

You might try the dos 'debug' program. Just type that at the command prompt and see waht happens. I think there are manuals somewhere for using this to copy stuff to a floppy disk (if that's what you want that is...)

[AR]

You might try the dos 'debug' program. Just type that at the command prompt and see waht happens. I think there are manuals somewhere for using this to copy stuff to a floppy disk (if that's what you want that is...)

Debug is a DOS App, not supported in WinXP x64 either.

[Cjmovie]

Nope, DD is a 16-bit (It seems) application. Anyone a link to a 32-bit version (possibly 64-bit?).

Or maybe just a tutorial on some std c functions to make a simple tool myself?

[Ushma]

Nope, DD is a 16-bit (It seems) application. Anyone a link to a 32-bit version (possibly 64-bit?).

Or maybe just a tutorial on some std c functions to make a simple tool myself?

http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ is supposed to have a 32-bit dd.

[Cjmovie]

Cool...Although just as I was reading this I was downloading a 32-bit rawwrite program....
I'll check that out though, as this one can only write flat floppy images, not skip sectors and write one etc.


Also, I ended up writing my own hex viewer for the command line, couldn't find one simple enough. I also added a "--cmp" option to compare one file to another, helped me fix my FAT12 BPB in my bootloader...had a byte instead of a word for NumHiddenSectors. Then it worked fine.

[Solar]

Or maybe just a tutorial on some std c functions to make a simple tool myself?

Standard C offers no functions that circumvent the file system.

[Cjmovie]

That sucks .

Oh well, Std c helps out in almost everything else, plus letting us mess at the sector level could let us do damage.