Re: [Freedos-user] To: Mark Bailey. Dual boot WinXP/DOS works great!
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/sda. Was this a SCSI hard disk? The default for an IDE hard drive is /dev/hda. Glad this worked. Now, that wasn't TOO hard, was it? :-) I've asked the gparted guys to add the feature to set the partition ID, which would eliminate the fdisk steps. I hope they will get around to it. BTW, Linux fdisk is very powerful, stable, and quite useful! :-) It is much more powerful than the DOS versions. Mark Johnson Lam wrote: 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 Gparted will report error when the hard disk fragmented, I got a free WinNT/2K/XP defrag tool from the following website: http://www.whitneyfamily.org/Hacks/default.aspx?item=Defrag Too bad DOS defrag still not working under FAT32. Rgds, Johnson. --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121642 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] To: Mark Bailey. Dual boot WinXP/DOS works great!
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 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/sda. Was this a SCSI hard disk? The default for an IDE hard drive is /dev/hda. Glad this worked. Now, that wasn't TOO hard, was it? :-) I've asked the gparted guys to add the feature to set the partition ID, which would eliminate the fdisk steps. I hope they will get around to it. BTW, Linux fdisk is very powerful, stable, and quite useful! :-) It is much more powerful than the DOS versions. Mark Johnson Lam wrote: 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 Gparted will report error when the hard disk fragmented, I got a free WinNT/2K/XP defrag tool from the following website: http://www.whitneyfamily.org/Hacks/default.aspx?item=Defrag Too bad DOS defrag still not working under FAT32. Rgds, Johnson. --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121642 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121642 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] To: Mark Bailey. Dual boot WinXP/DOS works great!
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 Defragmenter. NTFS partitions (default for XP) do NOT require defragmentation. Thanks for the note about /dev/sda. Was this a SCSI hard disk? Not sure, Gparted reported error, after defrag it worked. No, it's a Serial-ATA. The default for an IDE hard drive is /dev/hda. I don't have many Linux experience, just a bit about the device, new device name can let me hang-up. Glad this worked. Now, that wasn't TOO hard, was it? :-) No, but I think the highlighting rather rough, maybe I can help you to make the screen capture even better. I've asked the gparted guys to add the feature to set the partition ID, which would eliminate the fdisk steps. I hope they will get around to it. Yeah, I hope they'll implement that, fdisk text screen will scare the sh-t out of some Windows People. BTW, Linux fdisk is very powerful, stable, and quite useful! :-) It is much more powerful than the DOS versions. But without your guile I don't know how to use it. Someone may consider these are extra document, but it is NECESSARY. Thanks. Rgds, Johnson. --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121642 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] To: Mark Bailey. Dual boot WinXP/DOS works great!
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 sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121642 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] To: Mark Bailey. Dual boot WinXP/DOS works great!
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 partitions... In order to resize them, you don't need to defragment them first. So, you don't need to defragment an NTFS partition before installing FreeDOS, which is what I meant! :-) See http://mlf.linux.rulez.org/mlf/ezaz/ntfsresize.html Mark --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121642 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
