> On Jan 15, 2025, at 7:47 PM, Eric Auer via Freedos-devel
> <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
>
>
> Hi Bernd,
>
> Thank you for this extremely bug-fixing FDISK update!
>
> Crazy how we survived using FDISK before those TWENTY
> critical and high importance fixes in version 1.4.0 :-o
>
> Does the FreeDOS installer still create 20 FAT16 drives if
> your disk has 40+ GB, by the way? If yes, will the updated
> FDISK make it easier to just create one FAT32 drive instead?
With recent builds of the OS Release Media, when the Installer partitions the
drive automatically, it should only create one large FAT32 partition.
A change/addition was required in FDISK to permit this behavior. If I recall
correctly, I requested Bernd to implement that addition to FDISK and he did.
That improvement was mentioned here on the Devel Mailing list a long while back.
Unless there has been some sort of regression in FDISK or the Installer, only
one partition should get auto-created on the current RC or Interim Test Builds.
:-)
> I wonder if there are better ways to autodetect LBA-fail BIOS.
> The way in which Book8088 broke this was quite "creative" and
> I hope no installer will use /X to just disable LBA by default.
>
> Regards, Eric
>
>> I released FDISK 1.4.0: https://github.com/FDOS/fdisk/releases/tag/v1.4.0
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