how not to initialize HD

[Paul Cartwright]

On Wed August 4 2010, Clive Hills wrote:
>  3 Primary   615401955   625137344      0     9735390 CP/M / CTOS / . (DB)
>  None
>
>
> What I find amazing in all of this is that no one has asked what 's on
> sda3. I mean CPM/CTOS. That's pretty unlikely in 2010! What does that
> partition contain?
> --

 ls -l sda3
total 160
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  1871 Jul  7  2005 autoexec.bat
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 May 17  2004 bat
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 Dec 27  2006 bin
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 56403 Dec  1  2005 command.com
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   117 May 17  2004 config.sys
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 29343 Dec  1  2005 dellbio.bin
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 32058 Dec  1  2005 dellrmk.bin
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 May 17  2004 img
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 Dec 27  2006 src1
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 Dec 27  2006 src2
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 Dec 27  2006 src3
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 Dec 27  2006 src4
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 Dec 27  2006 src5
/mnt/sda3# ls -l bat
total 8
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  64 May 17  2004 confirm.bat
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 385 May 20  2004 recover.bat
/mnt/sda3# ls -l bin
total 1456
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root    4661 Dec 27  2006 dsrcheck.exe
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root    5063 Dec 27  2006 dsrreset.exe
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   15266 Nov 14  2005 himem.sys
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root    8321 Nov  3  2005 mouse.com
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1436176 Dec  5  2005 recover.exe
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root    6987 Dec 27  2006 restart.exe


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Paul Cartwright
Registered Linux user # 367800