Re: [Freedos-user] Question about xFDisk and a multiboot setup
Hi,
On Tue, Mar 14, 2023 at 3:54 PM Eric Auer wrote:
>
> > Hi Eric I have partition magic for dos this can create partition for
> > freedos?
>
> I guess it can, given that it is a partition editor :-)
>
> I do not know whether the DOS version can create LBA
> partitions or FAT32 partitions, so if this is an old
> DOS software, it may be better to use modern tools
> such as GPARTED for Linux or something similar for
> Windows or maybe even a tool shipping with FreeDOS?
Just FYI, there's also SPfdisk that may behave differently ("better"??):
* https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/fdisk/spfdisk/
But I never used it much and don't remember the details. (I think it
had better access to SATA disks?? And at least a quick format
built-in. IIRC, sources were mostly in C.)
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Re: [Freedos-user] Question about xFDisk and a multiboot setup
I think I have managed to get both MSDos and Freedos though currently I cannot boot into freedos Trying to find a version of Linux that I like, I will probably pick Manjaro XFCE, that seems to run the best on that laptop and have access to the stuff I need/want which is mostly Virtual Box, and Visual Studio Code It still boots into MS Dos and Linux can see all the partitions I plan to create a swap dir at the end of the free space and then install linux into what is remaining. I am hoping that it will see the other distros and install grub properly, to boot into any of the goodness. At the least I expect that it will do a dual boot with MSDos and Linux, and I think I can massage grub to do the rest for me once I learn how. Adam On Tue, Mar 14, 2023 at 3:54 PM Eric Auer wrote: > Hi Gabriele, > > > Hi Eric I have partition magic for dos this can create partition for > > freedos? > > I guess it can, given that it is a partition editor :-) > > I do not know whether the DOS version can create LBA > partitions or FAT32 partitions, so if this is an old > DOS software, it may be better to use modern tools > such as GPARTED for Linux or something similar for > Windows or maybe even a tool shipping with FreeDOS? > > In any case, it should not make much difference for > the multiboot question. For that, the trick will be > to sort partitions in a way that each OS calls their > own partition C: because the partitions of the other > OS either are in formats not supported by the OS, > for example FAT32 will be invisible to MS DOS 6.22, > or are after the own partition of the OS. And you > should make sure that installing one OS does not > format or otherwise damage the partition of another. > > Regards, Eric > > > > > ___ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Question about xFDisk and a multiboot setup
Hi Gabriele, Hi Eric I have partition magic for dos this can create partition for freedos? I guess it can, given that it is a partition editor :-) I do not know whether the DOS version can create LBA partitions or FAT32 partitions, so if this is an old DOS software, it may be better to use modern tools such as GPARTED for Linux or something similar for Windows or maybe even a tool shipping with FreeDOS? In any case, it should not make much difference for the multiboot question. For that, the trick will be to sort partitions in a way that each OS calls their own partition C: because the partitions of the other OS either are in formats not supported by the OS, for example FAT32 will be invisible to MS DOS 6.22, or are after the own partition of the OS. And you should make sure that installing one OS does not format or otherwise damage the partition of another. Regards, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Question about xFDisk and a multiboot setup
Hi Eric I have partition magic for dos this can create partition for freedos? Il gio 9 mar 2023, 23:08 Eric Auer ha scritto: > > Hi! > > You could try metakern: FreeDOS SYS has command line options to write > the boot sector to a file instead of to the boot sector. You can use > either DEBUG or Linux or simple or fancy DOS tools of your choice to > harvest the boot sectors of MS DOS and XP. If FreeDOS finds the file > fdconfig.sys, it will use that and ignore config.sys, so you can tell > FreeDOS to use a different command.com than MS DOS in the SHELL line, > which you can also use to tell our freecom shell to use a different > file instead of autoexec.bat :-) > > In short, you can use metakern as a boot menu to install FreeDOS and > MS DOS on the SAME C: drive, both visible to each other. Of course > it will take a bit of copying files around and making backups before > one installer overwrites files of the other DOS, but as experienced > DOS user, you can do it :-) > > You can also add XP to the equation if you manage to keep config > files separate, but it is probably easier to install XP to a NTFS > partition which both DOS versions will simply ignore. You can use > for example your Linux boot manager to boot either Linux or XP or > the DOS partition and then use metakern to boot either FreeDOS or > MS DOS. > > Or even easier: Copy the harvested boot sectors of both MS DOS and > FreeDOS to your Linux boot manager directory and manually add boot > menu items for the two DOS versions directly to your Linux boot menu > without using metakern. > > Regards, Eric > > > > > I and trying to get a multiboot setup > > > > 1. MSDOS 6.22 + Win 3.11 > > 2. FreeDos 1.3 > > 3. I was going to do XP but annoying so no... > > 4. And a Older laptop friendly Linux that runs on XFCE... > > > > > > ___ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
