Hi, There may indeed be bugs in GParted, we don't know. Long story short: to install DOS, you need to do this: "fdisk, (reboot), format, sys". Make sure you at least minimally have KERNEL.SYS (akin to MSDOS.SYS, IO.SYS or IBMBIO.COM IBMDOS.COM) and COMMAND.COM, preferably something more useful too!
Anyways, WinXP didn't let you resize NTFS, so that's where the real problem began. However, Vista and Win7 both have an in-built ability to (mostly) resize your NTFS cleanly, so that is preferred. For changing the boot sequence on newer Windows (Vista and Win7), your best bet is probably? something like EasyBCD freeware, as it changed compared to WinXP and no longer uses the same old BOOT.INI method. On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 4:43 PM, nweissma <nweis...@verizon.net> wrote: > https://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/freedos/index.php?title=Install > states: > >> If your computer has no partitions with FAT filesystem yet, you will have >> to create one before you can install DOS. For example GPARTED which is >> included with many Linux distros and many Linux versions which can be run >> directly from CD or DVD (no installation of Linux on harddisk needed) can >> resize your existing NTFS Windows partitions to make space for DOS without >> having to reinstall Windows. > > > this may not be correct: http://gparted.org/faq.php#faq-14 and > http://gparted-forum.surf4.info/viewtopic.php?id=13777 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
