Hi,
> On Jan 10, 2022, at 1:37 PM, Jim Hall <jh...@freedos.org> wrote:
>
>
>>
>>>> On Jan 10, 2022, at 10:57 AM, Tyson Oswald <oswa...@charter.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Alright I have tried to Crete a VMDK virtual hard disk in Box but when I
>>>> go to format the disk I get an error
>>>>
>>>> DOS Diver error (hex) 01
>>>>
>>>> [Error 129]
>
>>>> On Jan 10, 2022, at 11:53 AM, Jerome Shidel <jer...@shidel.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> Assuming it was renamed properly, and during boot the kernel displays the
>>> drive….
>>>
>>> Without knowing more… I think that is an FDISK bug. Or, possible one with
>>> FORMAT.
>>> Regardless, I’ve seen this several times with small drives.
>>>
>>> Make sure you HD size is in excess of 512 MB. Pre-allocated and not set to
>>> SPLIT.
>
>> On Mon, Jan 10, 2022 at 11:20 AM Tyson Oswald <oswa...@charter.net> wrote:
>>
>> Ah, I had it set for 500mb, I’ll try something larger
>>
>
>
> Not to confuse things, but I've used a much smaller VDI (200MB) on
> VirtualBox to install "plain DOS" with FreeDOS 1.3 RC5, and that
> worked fine. ("Plain DOS" takes only 20MB on the hard drive, so I
> didn't need a very big virtual disk.)
>
> I set it as "fixed size" so it creates the full VirtualBox Disk Image
> ("VDI") right away .. because 200MB or even 500MB is not that big
> these days. Creating a 500MB VDI took less than a second to do during
> my video:
> https://youtu.be/vE9CwMBvqnw?t=79
>
> Jim
>
Yup, me too.
But, I’ve also seen issues with <512mb partitions as well. So, IDK. It’s weird.
>
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