Ronald J. Hall wrote:
> Okay, with HD prices so low, I bought a 2nd (20 gig)
> Seagate hard drive. I added it to my current system, and
> decided to make a dual-boot system, using my old 10 gig WDC
> as the boot HD, for DOS stuff, and the new 20 gigger for my
> precious Linux stuff. I'm not going to go into a huge
> lengthy narrative here, but it works, except that with DOS
> 6.2, I get 2 gigs out of 10 available on my 1st hard drive.
> I know that if I installed Windblows, I'd get the full
> benefit of the drives space, but I refuse to have it on my
> system. Note that I'd also much prefer to have DR-DOS on my
> first drive, if anyone out there has experience with it
> (and pointers for getting/installing it?) I found some
> stuff on Caldera's web site, but its all bigger than the 2
> gigs I've got on my 1st HD. Any idea on how to get the
> other 8 gigs from DOS 6.2, until I can get DR-DOS
> installed? (and does DR-DOS find my full 10 gigs as well?)
>
> Thanks in advance! ;-)
Ronald....your question made me curious. I have Caldera
DR-DOS 7.01 on my primary IDE drive, but I'v only partitioned
the 1st 200mb for it. It is the home for Partition Magic 6.0
and BootMagic. I bought it from CheapBytes (it's in the book
section) for about $25.
Anyway, I booted up on DR-DOS and fiddled with the fdisk
program for a while. I appears to max out at 8 gig (the 1024
cylinder limit). So I suspect that 8 gigs might be your
limit on that 10 gig drive. But perhaps, if you were to
partition it with Linux fdisk, DR-DOS might be able to use
the space anyway. Good luck.
--
Alan
