Hi Alex, > I created a small extended partition and formatted it as FAT using > Partition Magic.
Note that you should not make it too small - it should not be FAT12 and it should not be 32 MB or less, if you ask me. Actually a full install can be around 150 MB :-). Extended partitions are a bit tricky to boot from, so you will probably need a boot manager, as the other people on the list already said. > However, the FreeDos installer does not give me any choice to which > partition it will install to and I think it wants to reformat the > existing primary partition. How do you know? It wants to format the first FAT partition on the drive, and if your Windows is NTFS (as most XP / 2000 / 2003 / Vista installs are) then it will not get a drive letter from DOS anyway... > If I have to I can blow away windows but we'd like to be sure we can > make FreeDos + our app work first on a second partition. DOS can only damage data on FAT partitions, unless of course you run a tool like FDISK to modify the partitioning itself. You should not use DOS FDISK, as it is far too easy to end up being unable to access your existing data any more (only an expert could fix it again then). Luckily there are gparted bootable cdroms (gparted is a Linux tool but you need no Linux experience to use a gparted cdrom) and things like Partition Magic and similar :-). Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
