Re: [Freedos-user] installation/partitions
On Thu, 29 Oct 2020 13:46:29 +0100, Eric Auer wrote: > If FreeDOS is the only operating system on your > FAT partitions, GRUB can automatically find and add it to the > boot menu when you run update-grub in Linux, as far as I know. Yes, that works fine in my experience. > In both cases, FreeDOS would have to manipulate files on NTFS > or Linux partitions to install itself without your manual help, > so it is good that FreeDOS does NOT do that [period] Agreed. /Tomas ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] installation/partitions
Hi! >> the installer has no way to install it as a multi boot choice. We once had logics to add FreeDOS to Windows 98 and similar boot menus to share one partition, but it has been a while since Windows stopped using classic FAT and the logics are too complex to automatically give the desired result in a sufficiently large subset of existing installations. Compare to Linux which can even resize Windows partitions and then create a GRUB menu with Linux and Windows - a lot of effort! It would be cool if somebody could give Tech Republic a hint that FreeDOS is not at all limited to 2 GB partition sizes but only to 2 TB harddisk size and MBR partition schemes ;-) Note about my earlier comment: GPT partitioning is related to UEFI but should not be confused with the OTHER problem of UEFI which is "no BIOS interrupts available unless you activate some legacy support / load some CSM at boot"... If you already have GRUB, you can use SYS with suitable options to generate a boot sector file to add FreeDOS to multi-boot in situations where several systems will boot from your FAT16 or FAT32 partition. If FreeDOS is the only operating system on your FAT partitions, GRUB can automatically find and add it to the boot menu when you run update-grub in Linux, as far as I know. If you already have Windows on NTFS, you can probably edit the Windows boot menu config while in Windows to add FreeDOS, but I do not know the details about that. In both cases, FreeDOS would have to manipulate files on NTFS or Linux partitions to install itself without your manual help, so it is good that FreeDOS does NOT do that at the moment ;-) If you want a boot menu to select one of several operating systems on a single FAT partition, check out my METAKERN tool, but be aware that it is rather minimalistic, so you will have to do all "figuring out" by hand to configure it. Regards, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] installation/partitions
On Thu, 29 Oct 2020 11:05:58 +0100, tom ehlert wrote: > [...] however you have to install it manually as the intended multi > boot environment. > > the installer has no way to install it as a multi boot choice. I guess you mean (whatever it's called) in Linux? Yes, I am aware of that, and have tried Freedos+Windows+Linux, but then apparently Windows put the boot files on the FD partition, which was C: at that point [and then there were other problems] so next time I will try Windows first. /Tomas ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] installation/partitions
Hallo Herr Tomas By, am Donnerstag, 29. Oktober 2020 um 07:27 schrieben Sie: > Hi all, > Is this correct: > "Because FreeDOS has the same basic FAT limitations of MS-DOS, the > largest you can create is a 2,055-MB partition." no. the FreeDOS kernel supports both 4 GB FAT16 partitions, using 64k clusters, and FAT32 partitions of up to 2 TB. > https://www.techrepublic.com/article/configure-it-quick-use-freedos-as-a-replacement-for-ms-dos/ there are more factual errors in this article. > Also, are there any limitations on the location of the partition on > the disk? > E.g. if I have a 250GB disk, can I put a 2GB Freedos partition at the > end? yes. however you have to install it manually as the intended multi boot environment. the installer has no way to install it as a multi boot choice. Tom > ___ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user Hallo Herr FreeDOS., Mit freundlichen Grüßen / with kind regards Tom Ehlert +49-241-79886 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] installation/partitions
Hi all, Is this correct: "Because FreeDOS has the same basic FAT limitations of MS-DOS, the largest you can create is a 2,055-MB partition." https://www.techrepublic.com/article/configure-it-quick-use-freedos-as-a-replacement-for-ms-dos/ Also, are there any limitations on the location of the partition on the disk? E.g. if I have a 250GB disk, can I put a 2GB Freedos partition at the end? /Tomas ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
