> is there some way to make dreedos work under the ntfs file system?
> if not, can you add ntfs support into it?

(HTML-formatted mail in Arial font size 2 on white background, but wtf...)

Joel, you are by no means the first to ask this:

http://www.google.com/search?q=ntfs+site%3Afd-doc.sourceforge.net

There are NTFS drivers for DOS, some of them in style of a file
manager which can access NTFS, some of them even allowing the NTFS
drive to be accessed like a normal drive letter. Most free solutions
only allow READING files, not writing. As far as I remember, one of
the commercial DOS drivers now is completely free for PRIVATE use,
including WRITE access to NTFS drives:

http://www.datapol.de/dpd/prod/ntfs4dos/ (in German, use Babelfish or
similar tools to translate...)

In any case this does not allow you to BOOT from NTFS drives.
You can boot FreeDOS from floppy, CD-ROM, network, some people
even manage to boot it from USB sticks. And of course from harddisk.
I suggest that you create a small (33 MB or so) FAT16 (LBA) partition
for DOS, if possible. NTFSRESIZE will allow you to shrink NTFS drives
for that purpose. Then you can install DOS on that partition, add the
NTFS4DOS driver, and access your 33 GB of other stuff on the NTFS
partitions from that tiny 33 MB DOS FAT partition.

Eric

PS: If somebody can figure out to WHICH of the FAQ entries the above
mail should be added, please forward the contents (not the email
addresses...) to that FAQ entry as a followup.



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