On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 3:00 PM, Don Flowers <donr...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I'm trying to think of what I might store there using DOS that would *need* >> more space, and can't think of anything. > > Ha - I had 14gb allocated on my Compaq Armada 1750 and ran out of space > after discovering that it plays "tunes" (via MPXPlay) better than any laptop > I've ever owned, so it has become quite the media machine, but even before > that I had 4gb consumed by regular DOS and W31 programs.
Oh, I can see W31 and programs eating the space. But depending on my setup, I generally don't store big stuff like media files on my boot drive. That's for OS and applications. Data lives somewhere else. I assume MPXPlay, as a DOS program, needs to see media it plays on a FAT file system. As mentioned, on the machine FreeDOS is installed on, I have multiple partitions and file systems. When I set it up to begin with, I assumed FreeDOS would use FAT16 and have the 2GB volume size limit in consequence, so that determined the partition size. The stuff I do under FreeDOS *doesn't* take a lot of space. Media files, like audio and video, are handled by Windows or Linux viewers, and live elsewhere. I *could* redo the setup on the FreeDOS box to allocate a larger FAT32 partition, but have no need to. ______ Dennis https://plus.google.com/u/0/105128793974319004519 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dive into the World of Parallel Programming. The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
