Here is my exact steps: Start fdisk and make sure to delete all partitions so I am starting fresh.
1) Create a Primarry partition of size 20480 2) Create an extended partition of max size 3) Fill up the rest of the drive with 20480, 20480, and the remaining space left. Once done I reboot the computer and restart freedos install. Install seems to go properly, but once it reboots and starts to load I get alot of size errors partition is this but should be that. It then asks for the date and time and puts ky at the command prompt. I will be testing this in a vm with a large drive to see if I get the same results so I can record it and have snapshots to show. On Mon, May 9, 2022 at 08:35 <freedos-user-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > Send Freedos-user mailing list submissions to > freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > freedos-user-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net > > You can reach the person managing the list at > freedos-user-ow...@lists.sourceforge.net > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Freedos-user digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: FreeDOS Partitioning (Eric Auer) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 8 May 2022 15:09:22 +0200 > From: Eric Auer <e.a...@jpberlin.de> > To: Discussions and general questions about FreeDOS > <freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> > Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Partitioning > Message-ID: <95c2e665-aa19-8469-8b46-671951e58...@jpberlin.de> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed > > > Hi Daniel! > > > I am tryin to install FD on a Dell PC with an 80 gb partition. I tried > as > > I prefered it spliting into 4 partitions, and as one large partition. > When > > I boot into the live CD all seems fine, but after it does the formating > and > > installing, I get a bunch of errors about the partitins. Looking at the > > fdisk informations they seem to get changed from 20481 to 20489. Not > sure > > why. Can anyone check to see if this happens to them? Is there a size > > limit currently for partitions? > > Please share more details about the issue. If you want to have > 4 partitions of 20 GB each, you will have to use FAT32, but it > is possible to have much larger FAT32 partitions. The limit in > your case will be the 2 TB limit for MBR partitioned disks and > sometimes a limit of how large disks are supported by the BIOS, > which could be 128 GB for old LBA BIOS versions. FAT32 itself > is limited to 2^28 clusters, which means that even for common > cluster size 4 kB you already reach 1 TB in a single partition. > And clusters can be much larger than that, so your effective > limit is the 2 TB disk size limit of 512 byte per sector MBR. > > That said, I recommend that you use LBA mode for partitioning, > so the partition type should be 0c FAT32 LBA, not 0b FAT32 CHS. > > If you use extended partitions, you would use 0f with LBA instead > of 05 with CHS, but as you mention that you planned to use exactly > four partitions, you probably do not use extended partitions here. > Likewise, if you would use FAT16, type 06 is CHS, type 0e is LBA, > but FAT16 partitions can be at most 2 GB (in some cases 4 GB). > > If you are using an older version of FDISK, it may have some type > of rounding error which could explain what you are seeing, but if > it just rounds the size to the next whole cylinder in CHS mode, > that would just be something common to do and not a real error. > > However, if you get inconsistencies and the partitions do not boot > or otherwise do not work properly, then that could be a real bug. > > Regards, Eric > > > > > ------------------------------ > > > > ------------------------------ > > Subject: Digest Footer > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > > > ------------------------------ > > End of Freedos-user Digest, Vol 2239, Issue 1 > ********************************************* >
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