On 2013-02-09 10:56 (GMT-0800) Ray Davison composed: > A little background. My first PC ran DOS 3.3 on a 28M HDD that I broke > into three partitions, all primaries. Since the extended came out every > machine I have had has had a single primary - 2G or less, Fat 16 - with > one or more installs of DOS and maybe Win9X. The rest of the drive, and > any other drives have been a single extended, which carried whatever GUI > OSs I was running as well as apps and data.
> I just took a fresh HDD, created a 2G, primary at the front, and for the > first time ever, that partition is FAT32. I then created several fat32 > logicals. > I ran the 1.1 CD. When I got to the MBR selection at the end I selected > the boot loader. Boot yields "non system disk". > Ran CD again. Selected make floppy. Nothing was written to the disk. > Ran CD again. Selected write FreeDOS to MBR. Boot is OK. > Should the boot loader and floppy selections be expected to work? I haven't done FD installation in quite a while, so don't remember a lot. What I do remember is never being able to write a floppy until after booting the installed system. In thinking about it now I wonder if it's an A: vs. B: problem of some kind stemming from CD installation boot as A:? -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Free Next-Gen Firewall Hardware Offer Buy your Sophos next-gen firewall before the end March 2013 and get the hardware for free! Learn more. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sophos-d2d-feb _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
