On 7/21/2023 1:51 PM, Jay F. Shachter via Freedos-user wrote:
Esteemed Colleagues:
A little bit less formal might be more appropriate...
slice, Microsoft Windows was still able to boot, and then I recreated the third primary slice, and I installed FreeDOS onto it. I had to change its 8-bit code from 7 to 12; when I left it at 7, FreeDOS refused to install itself there. When I changed it to 12, FreeDOS called it D: and it was then willing to install itself there.
Well, you need to know what you are doing at this point. A partion ID of 7 (07h) simple can't work, as that would indicate a NTFS partition, that is a file system that DOS (any DOS) just doesn't know anything about...
An ID of 12 (0Ch) indicates a FAT32 partition with LBA addressing, and this is something that FreeDOS indeed is able to understand
I tried to do the same thing with a logical slice of disk but FreeDOS failed to see it. If it is possible to install FreeDOS onto a logical slice of disk, inside of the extended slice, the technique for doing so is unknown, or, at least, unknown by me.
DOS can not be installed on a logical partition, it has to be a primary partition.
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