Re: [newbie] DOS 6.2 question (HD size?)

[Ronald J. Hall]

Alan Shoemaker wrote:

> 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

Hi Alan. Thanks for the reply. Guess I'll have to go to CheapBytes and grab
DR-DOS from there...

I'm really just looking for backwards DOS compatibility without actually using
MS-DOS, kinda like I love Wine and Starcraft with no Windog in sight... Don't
really want *any* MicroSlop product on me beloved Linux box! ;-)

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