Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS on the second partition of the disk

2013-04-22 Thread Aleve Sicofante
2013/4/22 Felix Miata mrma...@earthlink.net also maybe influenced or caused by VE-300 emulation firmware when using it All tests were done with the disk OUT of the VE-300 case. -- Precog is a next-generation analytics

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS on the second partition of the disk

2013-04-22 Thread Aleve Sicofante
2013/4/22 Felix Miata mrma...@earthlink.net On 2013-04-22 02:07 (GMT+0200) Aleve Sicofante composed: ...2.5 drive enclosure from Zalman, the VE-300... Is there any USB3 support in FreeDOS??? All my external backup cases except my oldest one include eSATA support. eSATA is mostly all I

[Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS on the second partition of the disk

2013-04-21 Thread Aleve Sicofante
I have a single 40GB disk and I need its first partition for other purposes, so I want to install FreeDOS on the second partition of the disk (that's the last 1GB of the disk, BTW). The process seems to be the same as if chose the first partition, but when I'm finished, FreeDOS won't boot. It will

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS on the second partition of the disk

2013-04-21 Thread Aleve Sicofante
2013/4/21 Felix Miata mrma...@earthlink.net On 2013-04-21 15:48 (GMT+0200) Aleve Sicofante composed: I have a single 40GB disk and I need its first partition for other purposes, so I want to install FreeDOS on the second partition of the disk (that's the last 1GB of the disk, BTW

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS on the second partition of the disk

2013-04-21 Thread Aleve Sicofante
2013/4/21 Felix Miata mrma...@earthlink.net On 2013-04-21 17:48 (GMT+0200) Aleve Sicofante composed: Thanks Felix, so it doesn't matter which choice I select in the last installation step? I'm referring to the last step you can see on this picture: http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS on the second partition of the disk

2013-04-21 Thread Aleve Sicofante
2013/4/21 Kenneth J. Davis jere...@fdos.org There are two different issues here. 1) The hard drive's master boot record (MBR - 1st sector where the partition table resides) must have bootable code installed. If you later intend to boot an OS from the 1st partition then installing a boot