Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1: About installation cd AND system backup???

2012-06-06 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, Just a little bit of non-expert info from me here, On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 5:10 PM, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook jtw...@ttlc.net wrote: It would appear that on Jun 3, Eric Auer did say: 3) you wouldn't happen to know if using clonezilla's expert mode     to de-select cloning the hidden

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1: About installation cd AND system backup???

2012-06-05 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
It would appear that on Jun 3, Eric Auer did say: 3) you wouldn't happen to know if using clonezilla's expert mode to de-select cloning the hidden data between MBR and 1st partition when making a clone of a working bootable {via chainloader} freedos partition, would result in

[Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1: About installation cd AND system backup???

2012-06-03 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
Hello, I recently installed the FreeDOS 1.1 cd to an old laptop with a 6 gig hd a minimal linux all configured to access my email and with all the bookmarks I need to quickly find help {when/if} the next time I bork my desktop... I decided I wanted to install dos in part because I found an old

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1: About installation cd AND system backup???

2012-06-03 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! 1) When, at the end of the install, the installer asks what to do with the bootsector AKA Volume Boot Record. Is it the same thing as when a linux installer allows me to install grub to the 1st superblock of the / partition??? {it seams to have the same effect} Yes that is

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1: About installation cd AND system backup???

2012-06-03 Thread dmccunney
On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Eric Auer e.a...@jpberlin.de wrote: In the case of GRUB2 (?) it will then search the PC for bootable operating systems by looking at all boot records and present those as boot menu. Classic GRUB relied more on a configuration file for that, in GRUB2 it is more