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
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). The process seems to be
the same as if chose the first
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). The
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:
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:
On 2013-04-21 18:19 (GMT+0200) Aleve Sicofante composed:
Felix Miata composed:
Because the first isn't a bootable OS anyway, I would definitely choose #1,
the simplest. If the OS that needs access to the first is old and
unsophisticated, another solution might be needed for it to maintain
On 2013-04-21 19:32 (GMT+0200) Aleve Sicofante composed:
Felix Miata composed:
On 2013-04-21 18:19 (GMT+0200) Aleve Sicofante composed:
Felix Miata composed:
Because the first isn't a bootable OS anyway, I would definitely choose
#1,
the simplest. If the OS that needs access to the
On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 1:32 PM, Aleve Sicofante asicofa...@gmail.comwrote:
2013/4/21 Felix Miata mrma...@earthlink.net
On 2013-04-21 18:19 (GMT+0200) Aleve Sicofante composed:
Felix Miata composed:
Because the first isn't a bootable OS anyway, I would definitely
choose #1,
the
here how I making freedos iso...
dd if=/dev/zero of=freedos.img bs=1024 count=34000
mkdosfs -F 32 freedos.img
/usr/src/sys-freedos.pl --disk=freedos.img
mount -o loop fdboot.img /mnt/dos2/
mount -o loop freedos.img /mnt/dos/
cp -a /mnt/dos2/* /mnt/dos/
mkisofs -udf -b
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
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 ever use for external HDs. They're DOS bootable
On 2013-04-22 02:07 (GMT+0200) Aleve Sicofante composed:
I created two PRIMARY partitions: a 39GB one and a 1GB one. I marked the
second partition as Active. I did all this using the tools provided in the
FreeDOS CD. After partitioning and rebooting, I proceeded with the
installation of
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