Hi Blair: DOS does not have to be booted from whatever it identifies as C: when booted from a CD or floppy disk.
Using a boot loader (like GAG, GRUB, LILO, etc.) DOS can be booted from any primary partition on any disk. DOS will identify its boot partition as C: but it can be any partition. It does not have to be whatever partition DOS happens to identify as C: when booted from a floppy or CD. In fact, this is usually D: (when booted from a floppy or CD on a disk with a rescue partition). It would be helpful to be able to use the FreeDOS installer on a disk with a rescue partition without modifying the rescue partition. Mark Blair Campbell wrote: > DOS can only boot from C:, so if you don't want it to see a FAT32 > drive, the only way to ignore it is to use the FAT16-only kernel > flavour. > > On 7/15/06, Mark Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hello everyone: >> >> Will the installer version that will be in FreeDOS 1.0 allow installing >> FreeDOS in a user-specified partition? The Beta9SR1 installer wrote >> some files to C:, which is sometimes a rescue partition that I don't >> want to modify on new computers, even if the installation was to D:. >> >> Thanks very much for all of your hard work on FreeDOS. I look forward >> eagerly to Version 1.0! >> >> Mark Bailey >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? >> Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job >> easier >> Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo >> http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 >> _______________________________________________ >> Freedos-user mailing list >> Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user >> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
