Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos-user Digest, Vol 1361, Issue 1

[Wayne Dernoncourt]

I’m going to try and dual boot Windows7 & FreeDOS, I’m not sure which order to 
do after I shrink the C drive (create a partition visible to both Win7 & 
FreeDOS?)
 - install FreeDOS to target partition
 - install GAG

I’m looking for advice on the order that yields the most success 

This clown speaks for himself

On Jan 20, 2018, at 8:59 AM, Γιώργος Κωστόπουλος  wrote:

>> 
>> This is where my question comes in. I know with vanilla DOS's fdisk, you
>> are only allowed to create one primary partition. However, does FreeDOS's
>> fdisk allow you to create more than one primary partition?
>> 
>> This is the crux of the whole plan. If I can confirm that FreeDOS's
>> fdisk has that ability, I can try his solution and hopefully have it work.
>> Hence, I joined this mailing list to find the answer.
>> 
>> Sorry for rambling on. Any help would be appreciated! Thanks!
>> -- next part --
> 
> 
> Hi Kyle :-)
> 
> 1) Personally I recommend GParted's Live CD, but if you want to go the
> pure DOS way, any FDISK variant will do.
> https://gparted.org/index.php
> 
> A word of caution: If you have Linux installed with GParted installed
> on it, avoid using it and stick to Live CD (unless you know exactly
> what you are doing).
> 
> 2) Did you made your mind if you gonna let Windows installations to
> see each other?
> Personally I strongly recommend NOT to do that, unless you know
> exactly what are you doing.
> 
> In any case the boot manager will help you achieve that.
> Any FreeDOS based boot manager will do. My personal preference at past
> (when I was faced this problem, many years ago), was GAG.
> What I liked at GAG at most is (Quoting from it's features description):
> "Hides the primary partitions which allows the user to have installed
> more than one DOS and/or Windows in the same hard disk."
> 
> Feel free to give it a try.
> http://gag.sourceforge.net/
> 
> Good Luck with it! ;-)
> Giorgos.
> 
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Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos-user Digest, Vol 1361, Issue 1

[Γιώργος Κωστόπουλος]

>
> This is where my question comes in. I know with vanilla DOS's fdisk, you
> are only allowed to create one primary partition. However, does FreeDOS's
> fdisk allow you to create more than one primary partition?
>
> This is the crux of the whole plan. If I can confirm that FreeDOS's
> fdisk has that ability, I can try his solution and hopefully have it work.
> Hence, I joined this mailing list to find the answer.
>
> Sorry for rambling on. Any help would be appreciated! Thanks!
> -- next part --


Hi Kyle :-)

1) Personally I recommend GParted's Live CD, but if you want to go the
pure DOS way, any FDISK variant will do.
https://gparted.org/index.php

A word of caution: If you have Linux installed with GParted installed
on it, avoid using it and stick to Live CD (unless you know exactly
what you are doing).

2) Did you made your mind if you gonna let Windows installations to
see each other?
Personally I strongly recommend NOT to do that, unless you know
exactly what are you doing.

In any case the boot manager will help you achieve that.
Any FreeDOS based boot manager will do. My personal preference at past
(when I was faced this problem, many years ago), was GAG.
What I liked at GAG at most is (Quoting from it's features description):
"Hides the primary partitions which allows the user to have installed
more than one DOS and/or Windows in the same hard disk."

Feel free to give it a try.
http://gag.sourceforge.net/

Good Luck with it! ;-)
Giorgos.

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