[Freedos-user] To: Mark Bailey. Dual boot WinXP/DOS works great!

2006-03-02 Thread Johnson Lam
Hi Mark, Thank you very much for your work!! I've got some time yesterday and successfully "dual booted" my office PC. Meet a problem when accessing "dev/hda", and I suddenly found that my office PC have no ATA hard disk, the device should be "dev/sda", you can add a note to your document. Also

Re: [Freedos-user] To: Mark Bailey. Dual boot WinXP/DOS works great!

2006-03-02 Thread Mark Bailey
Hi Johnson: Great! Yes, FAT32 partitions need to be defragmented first. I thought that was in there. I just checked...I guess if you are not running XP, you don't have XP's disk defragmenter! :-) NTFS partitions (default for XP) do NOT require defragmentation. Thanks for the note about /dev/s

Re: [Freedos-user] To: Mark Bailey. Dual boot WinXP/DOS works great!

2006-03-02 Thread Mark Bailey
Hi Johnson: Actually, the "fdisk" steps are not really necessary for FreeDOS, since the FreeDOS kernel will use LBA to access that partition even if the type is wrong, but it is necessary for MS-DOS and does eliminate the WARNING: and Please use fdisk messages... Mark Mark Bailey wrote: Hi Joh

Re: [Freedos-user] To: Mark Bailey. Dual boot WinXP/DOS works great!

2006-03-02 Thread Johnson Lam
On Thu, 02 Mar 2006 09:25:05 -0500, you wrote: Hi Mark, >Actually, the "fdisk" steps are not really necessary for >FreeDOS, since the FreeDOS kernel will use LBA to access >that partition even if the type is wrong, but it is >necessary for MS-DOS and does eliminate the WARNING: >and Please use fd

Re: [Freedos-user] To: Mark Bailey. Dual boot WinXP/DOS works great!

2006-03-02 Thread Johnson Lam
On Thu, 02 Mar 2006 09:17:54 -0500, you wrote: Hi Mark, >Great! Yes, FAT32 partitions need to be defragmented first. >I thought that was in there. I just checked...I guess if >you are not running XP, you don't have XP's disk defragmenter! >:-) That one I found is better than built-in "Disk Def

Re: [Freedos-user] To: Mark Bailey. Dual boot WinXP/DOS works great!

2006-03-02 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 2-Мар-2006 09:17 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Bailey) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: MB> NTFS partitions (default for XP) do NOT require MB> defragmentation. NTFS DO require defragmentaion. --- This SF.Net email is sponso

Re: [Freedos-user] To: Mark Bailey. Dual boot WinXP/DOS works great!

2006-03-02 Thread Mark Bailey
Arkady V.Belousov wrote: Hi! 2-Мар-2006 09:17 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Bailey) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: MB> NTFS partitions (default for XP) do NOT require MB> defragmentation. NTFS DO require defragmentaion. Hi Arkady: ntfsresize will handle fragmented NTFS partitio