Hi Bernd, > For example the ideal FreeDOS drive to install to is a C: which is: > * part of a harddisk
No really. > * harddisk is first harddisk on IDE/ATA/SATA controller Should be easy to check. > * partition is large enough > * partition has enough free space > * partition is writable > * partition uses FAT16/FAT32 filesystem > * partition is formatted Can all be checked together with WHICHFAT and FREETEST. > * bootsector can be identified > * partition is active > * partition is category "primary". The user might be using another menu. > Nearly no tool is able to detect all of this. See above :-) > For a bootmenu there's multiple options: > * operating system's own capabilities (like Win9x and NT have) > * Syslinux bootloader > * GRUB bootloader > * other bootloaders > * FreeDOS's metakern bootloader. Yes. I think it is fair enough to give the user the choice whether to use metakern or plain sys or sys-ing to a file with the boot sector, the latter two cases for either non multi boot situations or using non DOS boot menus... :-) >> hard drive was 200 Mb but I put a 1 Gb drive in, running OnTrack Disk >> Manager to overcome the BIOS restriction. > > I've always disliked those overlay programs, messing up way too many > programs. Your programs must have been very lowlevel I/O-ish then... Groeten, Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c2 _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
