Esteemed Colleagues:
I successfully installed FreeDOS onto a primary slice of an
MBR-partitioned disk. I was able to do this only because, even though
Microsoft Windows had installed itself onto all three primary slices,
someone told me that Microsoft Windows did not need the third one, and
I took the chance that he was right. I removed the third primary
slice, Microsoft Windows was still able to boot, and then I recreated
the third primary slice, and I installed FreeDOS onto it. I had to
change its 8-bit code from 7 to 12; when I left it at 7, FreeDOS
refused to install itself there. When I changed it to 12, FreeDOS
called it D: and it was then willing to install itself there.
I tried to do the same thing with a logical slice of disk but FreeDOS
failed to see it. If it is possible to install FreeDOS onto a logical
slice of disk, inside of the extended slice, the technique for doing
so is unknown, or, at least, unknown by me.
Jay F. Shachter
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"I sense much windows in you, Windows leads to bluescreens,
Bluescreens leads to crashing, Crashing leads to...Suffering"
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