A tip if you got to use plain DOS:
DOS is limited to 2GB. However, you can create an extended partition, in which you
create several 2GB logical partitions.
The 2GB limitation comes from the FAT16 filesystem, which is limited to 65536 clusters
of 32KB max., making a total count of 2GB.
Regs,
Jurian Blok
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3920 Lommel
Belgium
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-----Original Message-----
From: David Raleigh Arnold [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: maandag 27 november 2000 10:36
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] DOS 6.2 question (HD size?)
Alan Shoemaker wrote:
>
> 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.
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;yhs
drdos 7.03 can be downloaded, and a "tcpip stack" and 32 bit
drivers also, at http://disvr.cjb.net/dos/dls.html. Consider
using the extra 2 g's for optimization instead, like mounting it
on /usr/src or /usr/lib or /home/your/download.
Drdos has fdisk /x to put 3 logical partitions on your hd if
you have *lots* of dos files :-)
> Alan
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