Hi, Last one I am answering tonight...then back to my 50 shades of Grey series. in context below.
On Sun, 11 Nov 2012, Felix Miata wrote: > Maybe I missed it, but I haven't seen proof 7.03 cannot coexist with a > "large" HD. Is it a lack of FAT32/>2GB partition support? That's her obstacle? Here was the problem. the dell inspirium 7500, <spelling> comes with a 12 gig hard drive. When we started the installation though, Dr dos via fdisk indicated only 7500 or so, creating its first primary fat 16 partition at the 2 gig level...although we would find later that such was not what the drive was showing. We then tried, first the minimal fat 32 support for the logical rives in its extended partitions, then to create fat 16 ones. the former failed totally. the latter worked only slightly. while there were variations the experimenting, the logical drives were less than 2 gig in most cases both as fat 16 and fat 32. what would happen at the fat 16 level was that while the second and third, say e: and F: drives functioned fine, the d: as in the line where the extended and primary met did not, general protection errors, not allowing us to copy files or create directories, no allocation units on that part of the drive. We took a look with ranish finding over lapping partitions everywhere, the actual c drive was 4 gig, the cylinder arrangement was off etc. although we tired using ranish to create the partitions instead, Dr dos 7.03 simply would not see them at all, no matter how divided, even as fat 16. There are more details, but that gives You an idea. > > If not, it could be that the only obstacle is her installation methodology. > What size HD does she have in that Dell laptop? What partitioning would she > prefer to have? Possibly I could do what she ultimately wants, then describe > how to do it. I too have a Dell laptop with a PIII CPU. And, if I can find > the floppies and they still work, I have Novell DOS 7 also. what is novell dos 7? As for what partitions would be workable, my best guess is that she will be fine with say one primary and three logical in the extended partition. the question would be if this were doable with the Dr dos 7.03 she wants, nothing we found, and nothing those we contacted indicated it is doable. > > Does she have or have access to DesqView 386? DV is how I multitasked before > switching to OS/2 Warp. Indeed? I am sure she does not have it, I will hunt for this tonight. It didn't care about the DOS version, though I have > no recollection of the limitations it has if not also using QEMM, Actually I have come across many suggestions for substituting qemm for the Dr dos emm386, so it may be worth it. which gave me all sorts of trouble working on new at the time hardware. Can you be more specific about at the time? Not much hardware in the dell smiles. > > Maybe what could meet her needs is OS/2 or eCS. Last century at least they > were always better at multitasking DOS apps than DOS ever could hope to be. lol! last century? now now the dell is not that old, prior to the reinvention, her friend was running xp on It just fine I understand, and its default was wind 98...shutters at the memory of unlocking that mess of a drive smiles. > OS/2 as eComStation is currently available to run on modern hardware, though > the license is anything but cheap. A laptop old enough to be running a PIII > is likely to function with an old Warp 4 version off eBay or Craigslist. Having never looked into the operating system, hard to say if it will work for her or not. I am more motivated at the moment by your first possibilities, especially if there is something yet untried for the blooming drive. > > The other responders may be right. The easiest route may be Linux and > VirtualBox and/or DOSEMU. I disagree entirely on that front. the errors even trying to run gparted magic on this unit were enough to keep Eleni out of Linux forever I am sure smiles. Frankly the easier root would be to install the same ms dos package I am using no floppies required, but she wants ahem a more modern solution..whatever that is. Thanks for the ideas, Karen > -- > "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant > words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) > > Team OS/2 ** Reg. 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