Hi, Let me be more clear since you may have missed this. gives me a chance to share a source for utilities. we tried using many from the ultimate boot cd,
www.ultimatebootcd.com Including both ranish partition manager andgparted as suggested. All of these tools are modern, start creating the partitions from the front of the disk as in cylinder 0, and all of our efforts always to create less than 8 gig of partition from the front. In fact in order to create the required fat 16 primary partition it must be less than 2 gig at the front of the disk. I do agree about using Dr dos's fdisk, which is why we tried so many other ones. in the end though the operating system must see what we are doing. Karen On Mon, 12 Nov 2012, Felix Miata wrote: > On 2012-11-12 13:59 (GMT-0500) Karen Lewellen composed: > >> We had no difficulty installing the five disk set of Dr dos 7.03 onto the >> primary dos partition it created...that was never the issue. >> The issue instead was using the rest of the hard drive in any fashion that >> Dr dos would understand. No matter how far below 2 gig we went. The fdisk >> must see 12 gig in order to partition 12 gig. > ... >> Otherwise her friend must find a hard drive for that dell laptop of 6 gig or >> so for Dr dos 7.03 to be happy. > > I still believe the problem is one or both of two: > > 1-using DR DOS 7.03 FDISK (at all, for anything) > > 2-trying to partition more than ~8GB of the 13GB (contiguous, starting at > front) > > I still suggest to try a modern partitioning tool and not use DR DOS FDISK at > all. Additionally, I suggest creating less than ~8GB total from the front of > the disk for partitions. > > Acquiring a smaller than 8GB HD should not be necessary. Also, it may prove > difficult to find one so small that can be expected to be reliable. > Everything that small is rather ancient. > > In deciding how to partition, if you haven't already, be sure to consider > "cluster overhang" wastage by using FAT16 for large partitions. With a 32k > cluster size on a 2GB partition, 32k is the minimum filesystem allocation > size for every file of 32k or less. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Allocation_Table > -- > "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant > words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) > > Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! > > Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single > web console. Get in-depth insight into apps, servers, databases, vmware, > SAP, cloud infrastructure, etc. Download 30-day Free Trial. > Pricing starts from $795 for 25 servers or applications! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/zoho_dev2dev_nov > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single web console. Get in-depth insight into apps, servers, databases, vmware, SAP, cloud infrastructure, etc. Download 30-day Free Trial. Pricing starts from $795 for 25 servers or applications! http://p.sf.net/sfu/zoho_dev2dev_nov _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
