Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2+ Preview 12 - Now with Dimples

On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 3:41 AM, Eric Auer wrote: > > Hi Louis and Jerome, > > as advanced user, I am against installers zapping my MBR without > even looking at it. I would need a bootable CD to repair my boot > menu, or would need to know how to do that with DOS. Enough

Re: [Freedos-user] Cobalt OS 1.1

On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 4:11 PM, Rugxulo wrote: > Vista and newer can resize its own NTFS partitions. Perhaps if you're > trying to use XP then you'll need something else (GParted liveCD?). I used Win7 Disk Management to carve out a raw slice on the boot drive to install

Re: [Freedos-user] Cobalt OS 1.1

Hi, On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 9:40 AM, Louis Santillan wrote: > > Try Jeremy's Partition Resizer FD Image [0][1]. You'll need an > zip/archive program that decompress gzip. > > [0] http://www.fdos.org/bootdisks/ > [1] http://www.fdos.org/bootdisks/autogen/FDPRSZR.144.gz > > On

Re: [Freedos-user] Cobalt OS 1.1

Thanks to all. Currently on vacation and having to struggle with 70F sunny weather - yes, it can be a struggle, I got the machine last week and couldn't fool with it yet. This clown speaks for himself > On Feb 22, 2016, at 11:38 AM, Don Flowers wrote: > > Smart Boot

Re: [Freedos-user] Cobalt OS 1.1

Smart Boot Manager or Grub4DOS https://sourceforge.net/projects/btmgr/ http://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/boot/grub4dos/ SBM installs in MBR so no need for extra partition. Grub4DOS will install boot code in MBR and GRLDR in FreeDOS partition. On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at

Re: [Freedos-user] Cobalt OS 1.1

There are several listed here [0]. grub4dos and bootmgr seem to be most popular. [0] http://www.freedos.org/software/?cat=boot On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 7:49 AM, Wayne Dernoncourt wrote: > Can anyone recommend a boot manager? The plan is to use Windows7 & FreeDOS. > > This

Re: [Freedos-user] Cobalt OS 1.1

Can anyone recommend a boot manager? The plan is to use Windows7 & FreeDOS. This clown speaks for himself > On Feb 22, 2016, at 9:40 AM, Louis Santillan wrote: > > Try Jeremy's Partition Resizer FD Image [0][1]. You'll need an > zip/archive program that decompress gzip. >

Re: [Freedos-user] Cobalt OS 1.1

I'm planning on installing FreeDOS on a new/old Windows machine I just bought specifically to install FreeDOS. But it occurred to me that there was almost no way I was going to be able the _hooj_ (insert D Trump voice here) amount of disk space that would be leftover that I could keep Windows

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2+ Preview 12 - Now with Dimples

Hi Louis and Jerome, as advanced user, I am against installers zapping my MBR without even looking at it. I would need a bootable CD to repair my boot menu, or would need to know how to do that with DOS. Enough users neither have boot repair CD prepared nor know how to use DOS tool methods for

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2+ Preview 12 - Now with Dimples

On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 2:05 AM, Jerome Shidel wrote: > This is a known problem that has been undergoing consideration on how best to > resolve the issue. The SYS command used by the installer does not force an > overwrite of the old boot code in the MBR. This would damage

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2+ Preview 12 - Now with Dimples

Hello Loius, > On Feb 22, 2016, at 4:04 AM, Louis Santillan wrote: > > So I did my testing. I guess I misremembered. MS-DOS 6.22 [0] > handles the MBR that same way as FDI [1] does. :/ Shame, but I think > this is one place where FDI could do better. > > > [0]

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2+ Preview 12 - Now with Dimples

So I did my testing. I guess I misremembered. MS-DOS 6.22 [0] handles the MBR that same way as FDI [1] does. :/ Shame, but I think this is one place where FDI could do better. [0] https://youtu.be/etnVOlW23XE [1] https://youtu.be/zKcCVZH7q3s On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 3:43 PM, Jerome E. Shidel