On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 12:38, Arkady V.Belousov wrote:
> Hi!
>
> 22-Июл-2005 10:18 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carl William Spitzer IV) wrote to
> FreeDOS <freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net>:
>
> >> kn> What's the size limit on a partition for the FreeDOS kernel?
> >> 2 Gb for FAT16 partition, 2 Tb for the FAT32 partition. But all
> >> programs, which use only 32-bit arithmetics and use plain old DOS functions
> >> (non-FAT32 aware) always will see "2 Gb free", even if there (on FAT32
> >> partition) is more free space.
> CWI> In crashing this machine I found that the extended is limited to 8gig
>
> If BIOS doesn't present INT13 extension functions - then yes, FreeDOS
> limited to 7.8 Gb. If those functions present in BIOS - then FreeDOS may
> access all disk space.
>
> CWI> out of which you can carve up your logical partitions which share the
> CWI> 2gig limit.
>
> Again: 2 Gb is a _FAT16_ limit. FAT32 limited to 2 _Tb_.
>
>
Legacy windows / PCdos2000 is what I have for a legacy app of two.
Tricky but do-able since I started with Suse 7.0 and kept copies of
fstab .
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