Hi, On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 6:32 PM, Eric Auer <e.a...@jpberlin.de> wrote: > > >> 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! > > Please see below - if you have any Windows data that > could get lost, GPARTED is much better than FDISK as > FDISK will almost always lose data because you cannot > resize with it - you can only delete and create. Note > that you can only resize inactive partitions, so your > Windows (or Linux, if you have it) must be shut down > and not just "sleeping" while you resize it's disks.
Right, I just meant, minimally, at the VERY least, that's all you need. But in particular, I meant a clean install "from scratch" with nothing else pre-existing (no other OSes or important data). > PS: In a virtual computer, you often reboot by clicking a button > on your real desktop to "reset" the virtual computer. And if you > only have DOS and no other operating systems in the virtual PC, > there is of course no problem with FDISKing and FORMATting that > virtual PC, as it contains no virtual data that would be lost... In other words, virtual / emulated is worthless, so you don't lose anything. Of course, just backup the image file if you need it for something semi-important. > PPS: Note that partition types have size limits. FAT16 should be > circa 35 MB to 2 GB, FAT32 should be at least 270 MB. In theory, > you could make them as small as circa 2.2 or 35 MB respectively. I personally wouldn't recommend FAT32 for 512 MB size partition or smaller (or FAT16 on 512+), but that's just me. It wastes too much space to use FAT16 otherwise. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
