Hi Felix, >> I created two PRIMARY partitions: a 39GB one and a 1GB one. I marked the >> second partition as Active...
Note that because your partition starts after the first 8 GB, no matter which geometry you use, the partition can only be reached with LBA. So "FAT32 with LBA" would be a good partition type. Unless you prefer "FAT16 LBA" of course, the size of 1 GB is suitable for both. The FAT32 variant has smaller clusters (better usage of the available space with many small files) but larger FAT tables (worse performance in particular with big files). Once you use LBA instead of CHS, geometry is ignored. >> I did all this using the tools provided in the >> FreeDOS CD. After partitioning and rebooting... In some tools, you may have to explicitly select LBA. >> installation of FreeDOS to the second partition. I must say the installer >> didn't like the partition I created, showed lots of errors and offered to >> recreate the partition (this happened every single time I did the >> installation, and that's at least 10 times...). I agreed with the >> installer's suggestion, the partition was recreated and... That does not sound good, more exact error messages may help. It can happen that DOS complains about geometry consistency, but as said, for LBA partitions geometry is irrelevant. DOS could still be complaining about your FIRST (non-boot, 39 GB) partition if that is also FAT. Because it extends beyond the first 8 GB, you should also mark it as LBA if DOS can see it. > CHS: * 255 63 (mostly used with desktop system BIOS) I think 254 is also seen... > CHS: * 240 63 (mostly used with laptop system BIOS, but often also Compaq > desktops) > MiB cyl: * 64 32 (required for maximum performance for 4k sector aka > "advanced format" HDs) Why would 4k sector disks use any geometry at all? Geometries with powers of 2 sizes may be used for ZIP drives. Regards, Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Precog is a next-generation analytics platform capable of advanced analytics on semi-structured data. The platform includes APIs for building apps and a phenomenal toolset for data science. Developers can use our toolset for easy data analysis & visualization. Get a free account! http://www2.precog.com/precogplatform/slashdotnewsletter _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
