[Freedos-user] boot FreeDos from SATA HDD

2012-05-09 Thread Radoslav Tchipanov
Hi Can I boot FreeDos from a SATA HDD and how to format the SATA HDD in order to boot FreeDos from it? Best regardsRadoslav Tchipanov-- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live

Re: [Freedos-user] boot FreeDos from SATA HDD

2012-05-09 Thread Felix Miata
On 2012/05/09 14:32 (GMT+0300) Radoslav Tchipanov composed: Can I boot FreeDos from a SATA HDD and how to format the SATA HDD in order to boot FreeDos from it? HD access in DOS is BIOS based. If the BIOS finds a SATA HD, it treats it no differently than it would PATA. Either way, DOS doesn't

Re: [Freedos-user] upgrading to windows

2012-05-09 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 3:17 PM, Bernd Blaauw bbla...@home.nl wrote: Op 9-5-2012 21:35, Darlene Murphy schreef: I am about to purchase a server which will have freedos installed on it.  I would like to know if it is possible to install Windows Small Business Server.  Can this be done? As

Re: [Freedos-user] boot FreeDos from SATA HDD

2012-05-09 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 10:58 AM, Eric Auer e.a...@jpberlin.de wrote: PS: I suggest that you use another operating system tool, e.g. GPARTED if you use Linux, to format and partition your disk if you plan to have multiple operating systems on the disk. If you want to use the disk ONLY for

Re: [Freedos-user] upgrading to windows

2012-05-09 Thread freedos-user
That would replace freedos Minimum system requirements for: Windows Small Business Server 2011 http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg491249.aspx Windows Small Business Server 2008 http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc527594(v=WS.10).aspx Windows Small Business Server 2003 R2

Re: [Freedos-user] upgrading to windows

2012-05-09 Thread Darlene Murphy
The Server comes with FreeDos installed, but says you can purchase SBS with it.  I have MSDN license so do not need to purchase SBS. Darlene D. Murphy LadyDee's Web Database Architect I Net+, CIW Version 5 Associate CIW Web Foundations Associate, CIW Professional, CIW Designer CIW

Re: [Freedos-user] boot FreeDos from SATA HDD

2012-05-09 Thread Darlene Murphy
Systemax i3 VLS FreeDOS Server / Intel® Second Generation Core™ i3 2100 3.1GHz processor / 2x500GB RAID 1 Enterprise Drives / 4GB DDR3 / 2xGigabit LAN / FreeDOS Darlene D. Murphy LadyDee's Web Database Architect I Net+, CIW Version 5 Associate CIW Web Foundations Associate, CIW

Re: [Freedos-user] upgrading to windows

2012-05-09 Thread Jim Hall
Others have answered this pretty well. Microsoft Windows doesn't care about FreeDOS, so if you buy a server with FreeDOS on it (which is cool) and want to put Windows server on it instead, you will need to do a reinstall. That means you'll need a licensed full copy (not an upgrade) of Windows

Re: [Freedos-user] Boot on usb key (NTFS) on Freedos.

2012-05-09 Thread Jean-Pierre Planas
Hi, First, thanks for your answers (Eric, Jim and Rugxulo...) Rufus is very interesting... Just to explain why NTFS : I would like to put files 4Gb on the usb key. I use ghost (Symantec, ex-Norton) with Freedos, and I have already some ghost files 4Gb that I want to copy on my usb drive. I saw

Re: [Freedos-user] Boot on usb key (NTFS) on Freedos.

2012-05-09 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 4:24 PM, Jean-Pierre Planas syba...@club-internet.fr wrote: First, thanks for your answers (Eric, Jim and Rugxulo...) Rufus is very interesting... Just to explain why NTFS : I would like to put files 4Gb on the usb key. Ah, forgot about that. FreeDOS doesn't

Re: [Freedos-user] Boot on usb key (NTFS) on Freedos.

2012-05-09 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! Maybe obvious, but if you plan to handle large diskimages 4 GB, why would you want to do that with DOS at all? How about Linux? You might find that a complicated operating system for freaks but in fact you do not see much of an operating system when you stay inside your disk image software