Hi ! On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 15:29:38 -0500, Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> wrote:
> MS-DOS / Win9x forced you to install in the very beginning > of the hard drive. Uh ? What have you been smoking ? (smile)... MS-DOS will happily install to any primary partition on the first HD - and boot itself from the standard MBR, no hacking required, provided its partition is active of course. With a little hokus-pokus and alternative boot loaders, MS-DOS could also be persuaded to boot from other kind of partitions (secondary and/or patitions residing on a second disk). I presume you Rugxulo knew this and just were momentarily confused. Or did you mean to say something else, maybe that in default installations, starting from a blank hard disk MS-DOS would end up in the beginning of the disk ? Duh! Anyway, someone had to point this out "for the record". -- Czerno ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
