On Sat, 2012-11-24 at 20:47 -0800, Ralf A. Quint wrote: > At 07:28 PM 11/24/2012, bruce.bowman tds.net wrote: > >This may be a FAQ. > > > >I have an old DOS program that I wrote and still want to run, but it > >uses VESA 3.0 SVGA graphics, which are not [fully] supported by > >later versions of Windoze.* To make matters worse, the program > >writes to disk during operation, and no modern computer has FAT16 > >partitions anymore. > > > >So I'm looking to package the program on a CD with FreeDOS, DOS 7.1 > >or something that can provide DOS functionality and write to a FAT32 > >partition. And preferably, the program should autorun upon bootup. > > Well, your main problem here is that in case of an machine running > Windows XP, you are likely using a hard drive formatted with NTFS and > not FAT32, which means you would be at the mercy of a working NTFS > file system driver as well, and that is at least in terms of write > access a bit of a gamble IMPE... > > Ralf
Can you perhaps create a freedos boot disk? Should be an option if you have an install CD. What is the size of this program that needs a fat16 file system specifically? I think you can have up to a 504 meg partition and still use FAT16. Any chance you can shrink that NTFS partition by 500 megs and install Freedos to a second primary partition using ntfsresize or partition magic? Another approach is to use Linux via a live CD to back up Windows XP to an external hard drive. Set that back up aside, make the NTFS partition the first primary partition making freedos install on a second primary partition. Any decent live Linux CD can resize NTFS partitions to open up 500 megs of space. An easier approach is to add another hard drive and install freedos onto that. How old is your computer? Good luck. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
