If you already have Windows 98 SE, you have DOS 7.1. I prefer it to FreeDOS
because of better documentation.
Ira
irami...@gmail.com 805-212-0588
On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 8:26 PM, Dennis Fenton <dwf...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks Eric.
>
> Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone on the Bell network.
> Original Message
> From: Eric Auer
> Sent: Friday, March 24, 2017 7:21 PM
> To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net
> Reply To: Discussion and general questions about FreeDOS.
> Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] boot floppy disk image too big for a disk
>
>
> A backup on the same disk but different partitions
> does not really help you if things go really wrong,
> but as you say, data loss would be no real problem
> for you... You should probably backup at least the
> DOS SCSI drivers though ;-) Jerome also mentioned
> the drivers as being the most backup worthy files.
>
> As Jerome wrote, you can simply install to C:\FDOS
> and leave most of the rest of C: and D: unharmed.
> Outside the FDOS directory, only the config files
> (autoexec / config / fdconfig / similar) and boot
> files (kernel, maybe command) in the root directory
> of C:\ and the boot sector should get overwritten,
> not much else to worry about UNLESS you format or
> fdisk... In which case everything would be gone.
>
> As you already have some DOS (here: MS DOS) on the
> PC, I agree with Jerome that "not booted update" is
> worth a trying for a "smoother" change to FreeDOS.
>
> I disagree about FreeDOS being "not ready yet" or
> "no advantage to MS DOS". Examples of advantages:
>
> Several drivers are smaller in RAM compared to MS
> DOS versions, FreeDOS supports FAT32 and LBA :-)
>
> In particular, this means that you can (if your
> BIOS is not too old) harddisks up to 2 TB size
> and partitions of many GB size without problems.
>
> Regards, Eric
>
> > My internal hard drive is partitioned into C and D drives. The entire
> > contents of the C:\DOS directory is backed up on drive D. I also have
> > an MS-DOS boot disk that includes my current autoexec.bat and
> > config.sys files.
>
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