# Vault 7: Projects

This publication series is about specific projects related to the Vault 7 main publication.

### Dark Matter

# FDOS_1_0_FINAL_freedos_setup_odin_fips

11 May, 1998

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displayed in the process, so you will have no trouble choosing the
right cylinder. With cursor up/down you can change the count in steps
of 10. When ready, press enter to continue.
FIPS will check again if the space for the new partition is empty -
this is an additional security measure and should never show an error,
since the free space was already determined before.
After this, FIPS will calculate the changes to the root sector, check the
changes and display the new partition table. You may now choose to reedit the
partition table (this will return you to the point where you select the par-
tition) or to continue. If you type 'c', FIPS will calculate the changed
boot sector, check it again and prompt you if you want to proceed. If you type
'y' then, FIPS will write the changes to the disk and exit.
8. After splitting the partition
Make sure that the changes have been written to the disk. If you used
a disk cache like Smartdrive (despite my explicit recommendation not
to use it :-), wait for some seconds so that the cache is flushed to disk.
Your new partition will be recognized by DOS after you rebooted. DO NOT
WRITE ANYTHING TO THE DISK BEFORE REBOOTING. After rebooting, use CHKDSK
or Norton Disk Doctor to make sure your old (now smaller) partition is ok.
There have been cases where the changes made by FIPS were not correctly
written. To make sure that this is not the case, run FIPS again with the
-t (test mode) switch after rebooting. Select the drive and partition that
you were splitting. If FIPS displays no error until the cylinder selection
dialogue, there is no problem and you can stop the program with CTRL-C.
Otherwise you should undo the changes with 'restorrb' and contact me by
email.
If you don't find any errors, you may now reboot with your normal config.sys
and autoexec.bat. Start some programs and make sure you can still read your
data.
If you want to use your new partition under DOS, you must format it. If you
have multiple partitions, make sure to format the right one, the drive names
may have changed!
If you want to use the partition under Linux, you may now change the system
indicator byte with Linux' fdisk, then use MKFS.
If you want to split the new partition again in two smaller ones, you must
first format it under DOS, otherwise FIPS will complain.
9. Commandline Switches
Here is the explanation of FIPS' commandline switches. If you prefer the DOS
style, you may use '/' instead of '-' as the switch character. The switches
may be arbitrarily combined. Type 'FIPS -help' to get a list of the switches.
Here is a more detailed explanation:
-t or -test : test mode (no writes to disk)
This doesn't need much explanation.

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