On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 09:24:40 +0800, Fbsd1 <fb...@a1poweruser.com> wrote: > I have the win98 fdisk english version. I tested this and the fdisk > program displays just the drive letter with out the :. Now on the DOS > command line you do have to use the : to change to different drive, like > in to change to A: drive.
Yes, the fdisk program acts that way. Adding ":" after the drive letter (as a capital letter) is a thing you usually see in any documentation, like "this erases you C: drive" or "check floppy in A: and B: to make sure they are present". > The correct word as displayed in the fdisk program is 'logical dos > drives' just the way i have it. Okay, then "Laufwerk" and "drive" are corresponding correctly. Then it's a "logical drive inside an extended DOS partition". I will remember this, thanks for checking! > back in win3.1 days a 20MG hard drive was the largest made at the time. I'm _sure_ it was a 20MB hard disk, maybe just a typo? :-) And for the rewrite: > The Microsoft/Windows fdisk program is used to allocate partitions on > the hard drive. This program allocated two types of partitions “primary > dos partition” and “extended dos partition”. DOS means “disk operating > system” which was the precursor to the Microsoft/Windows desktop GUI > “graphical user interface” first appearing in Win 3.1. You should have DOS in caps always, as in "primary DOS partition". > An alternate method is to allocate an “extended > dos partition” and then sub-divide it into logical dos drives lettered > C, D, E, F. And it is possible to have a bootable system without a primary DOS partition? I hardly can imagine that - but don't bet on my opinion, I've NEVER used any "Windows", so I'm honestly just guessing. A typical "multi-drive" setting would contain a primary DOS partition C:, and an extended DOS partition containing the logical drives D:, E: and F: (for your 4-drive example). > The FreeBSD ‘disk label’ program is used to sub-divide the slice into > smaller chunks called partitions. The program's name is "disklabel" or "bsdlabel" respectively. > This hard drive 512-byte MBR is where all the limitations are. Due to > its size the MBR partition table is limited to 4 entries. This means no > matter how large your hard drive is (20MG or 200GB) you can only > sub-divide it into a maximum 4 slices/partitions. I'm sure you wanted to say 20MB - megaBytes. :-) > The FreeBSD fdisk program has option to > write a simple boot menu program to the MBR. Its called the "FreeBSD > boot manager". The program "boot0cfg" does this. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"