I have a 'lil HP from around the year 2000.It had windows XP on it,with a 7
GB harddrive (It's a little netbook,which is why the HD is small).It used
to boot into FreeDOS perfectly (I would boot into a flashdrive and run
FORMAT /S on the HD).But,now,if I try to do that,it boots,with a bunch of
random ASCII characters on the screen.It will prompt me with ("Pr3ss F? $$!
0 cont1nu3").Only the F1 key works.And pressing it simply repeats the
message.Then again,the problem only started AFTER I installed GRUB (for
linux).When I formatted my HD,I think I may have forgotten to remove
GRUB.Because JUST before I boot,the blue screen of GRUB flashes and
disappears almost instantly.On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 12:51 AM, M Vrm <netraa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello, > > I have an old laptop (for windows xp) which I used for many years, it has > a 60gb hard drive and I have installed freedos many times. > > I have an answer on all of these: > > > Can FreeDOS be installed on a partition >2gb. > > Will it work above the 2gb limit? > > Will it boot from the second primary DOS partition on the same drive? > > You get the idea. > > 1. Yes it can be installed very completely nothing missing etc. I have > done this many times. I had to figure out how but now it's easy. It's not > an other way for install. > > 2. It works (with fat32). It detects all the 60gbs. And works beautiful no > errors , crashes etc. > > 3. Yes also tried it. It works from the second partition. But if you had > windows xp on it, you can't use xp anymore until Freedos is deleted. It > will completely "takeover" because freedos doesn't detect the other > partition with xp on it so it won't let you boot that. Otherwise windows xp > can't boot because XP won't show his boot manager, freedos uses that > already. > > Sorry for my English as always. > > I'm Dutch > > I hope you can use it! > > Maarten > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-devel mailing list > Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel > >
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