Re: [Freedos-user] Question Regarding FreeDOS's fdisk

I'm back! And I got some great news! After obtaining an OEM copy of Windows XP Professional SP3 from eBay for the low-low price of $99.95 ( *awkward smile* ), I got around to installing XP today. I decided to try Boot US, and man, that is the simplest boot manager installer I have ever seen (then

Re: [Freedos-user] Question Regarding FreeDOS's fdisk

Hi, On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 6:21 PM, Kyle Nied wrote: > > BOOTMGR looks like a good candidate, Rugxulo. Boot US seems good too... I'll > have to think about it more. > > I'm putting this project on a very temporary hold, though. I'll work on it > some more after a few days.

Re: [Freedos-user] Question Regarding FreeDOS's fdisk

BOOTMGR looks like a good candidate, Rugxulo. Boot US seems good too... I'll have to think about it more. I'm putting this project on a *very* temporary hold, though. I'll work on it some more after a few days. Thankfully, Jan, real DOS would not be a problem, given I have all three MSDOS 6.22

Re: [Freedos-user] Question Regarding FreeDOS's fdisk

On Mon, 22 Jan 2018 07:33:16 -0600 Rugxulo wrote: > >Just to plug BOOTMGR again: > >http://www.bttr-software.de/products/bootmgr/ Indeed that looks to implement all you need, and only uses the MBR-sector itself which is quite an achievement ... You do need a real DOS to configure it though

Re: [Freedos-user] Question Regarding FreeDOS's fdisk

Hi, On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 3:13 AM, Jan van Wijk wrote: > > Right, but finding a proper BootManager might be a bit of a challenge. > > Many bootmanager need to be installed in a FAT partition (FAT32 might be OK) > so that would be the W98 one. Some install into the MBR

Re: [Freedos-user] Question Regarding FreeDOS's fdisk

Hi Kyle, On Mon, 22 Jan 2018 01:40:56 -0500 Kyle Nied wrote: > >I set the second primary partition as active, and the >XP setup disk manager said that second primary partition would be the C >drive! So now I am installing Win98 (after changing the "active" status >back to the 80GB primary

Re: [Freedos-user] Question Regarding FreeDOS's fdisk

Good news, everyone! FreeDOS's Free FDISK does support multiple primary partitions! I finally did a little test of what that VOGONS member laid out (using Free FDISK that ships with FreeDOS), and man it is magical compared to the original FDISK provided by Microsoft. It correctly detects the size

Re: [Freedos-user] Question Regarding FreeDOS's fdisk

Eric Auer composed on 2018-01-22 03:14 (UTC+0100): >>> dual-boot system, and Win98 *has* to be on the first partition. >>That was never the case for me. e.g. > I agree that most operating systems happily boot from ANY primary > partition (not necessarily the active one), I seem to remember

Re: [Freedos-user] Question Regarding FreeDOS's fdisk

Hi Felix, >> dual-boot system, and Win98 *has* to be on the first partition. >That was never the case for me. e.g. I agree that most operating systems happily boot from ANY primary partition (not necessarily the active one), I seem to remember that DOS and Windows are less happy to boot

Re: [Freedos-user] Question Regarding FreeDOS's fdisk

Jan: > More universal or newer disk tools may allow you to create multiple > primary partitions. > Got it! And, by "more universal or newer disk tools", I'm sure I can include FreeDOS's fdisk in that list, and if that is the case. great! If not, just let me know :). Thanks Jan! (for example my

Re: [Freedos-user] Question Regarding FreeDOS's fdisk

Hi Kyle, On Sat, 20 Jan 2018 22:31:38 -0500 Kyle Nied wrote: > >What, out of all of these fdisk versions (minus >vanilla fdisk, of course), can you create multiple primary partitions? More universal or newer disk tools may allow you to create multiple primary partitions. (for example my own

Re: [Freedos-user] Question Regarding FreeDOS's fdisk

On Sat, 20 Jan 2018 22:31:38 -0500, Kyle Nied wrote: What, out of all of these fdisk versions (minus vanilla fdisk, of course), can you create multiple primary partitions? I'm pretty sure WinXP itself can create multiple primary partitions. Why not create the first

Re: [Freedos-user] Question Regarding FreeDOS's fdisk

Sorry for responding late. Interesting stuff. I will have a look at METAKERN, Eric. However (not to be mean or anything), but my original question was, well, only kind of answered. Looking at the link to a *huge list* of different fdisk versions that you provided Rugxulo, and looking at the link

Re: [Freedos-user] Question Regarding FreeDOS's fdisk

Hi, On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 1:42 PM, Eric Auer wrote: > > There are a few FDISK variants for FreeDOS and some do > have some oddities in how to use them. For example you > may have to edit a config file to activate LBA support > for big disks or FAT32 support, in case you are

Re: [Freedos-user] Question Regarding FreeDOS's fdisk

Hi Kyle :-) First, Win98 and DOS ignore NTFS drives. Second, FDISK should easily allow up to 4 primary partitions, but in most cases at most 3, because you need 1 extended to put all the additional drives as a chain there. However, only one partition can be the one which boots by default. So

[Freedos-user] Question Regarding FreeDOS's fdisk

Hello members of this mailing list! My name is Kyle, and I subscribed to this mailing list just to ask a hopefully simple question. I have recently been trying to create a special Win98/XP dual-boot retro gaming PC in which both OSs are installed on a *C* drive. Yes, both. Not like how a normal