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.
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