I have used the boot manager from XFdisk or Grub 2 and have installed
FreeDOS on the 2nd, 3rd and/or last partition following the three (root,
home & swap) that the ubuntu derivatives require. The the minimum FreeDOS
FAT32 partition I have used is 4GB, the max is about 40gb (on a 320gb
drive) the average installation is 2gb for a DOS/WIN 3.1 installation, 12GB
for FreeDOS (on which most old DOS downloads are stored). I am sure as long
as you have some manager that is capable of the 3-4 primary partitions,
that your desired setup will work fine.
On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 7:55 AM, Matej Horvat <matej.hor...@guest.arnes.si>
wrote:
> On Tue, 02 Dec 2014 06:44:52 +0100, Thomas Mueller <mueller6...@twc.com>
> wrote:
>
> > from Rugxulo:
> >
> >> One of the big problems (not counting HTML5 or Javascript or Flash) is
> >> HTTPS. Not just for DOS but for any OS that isn't top tier (big three:
> >> Mac, Win, Linux).
>
> On DOS, Dillo and Links support HTTPS.
>
> > Even the lighter-weight graphic web browsers for Linux/Unix support
> > Javascript and HTTPS, Mozilla Firefox and Seamonkey, and maybe some
> > others, also support HTML5, but Flash is a big problem.
>
> I do not understand why everyone is so deathly afraid of HTML5. HTML5
> pages do not magically stop working in HTML 4.01 browsers. HTML5 just adds
> some new elements, many of which are semantic and can be ignored when
> rendering a page.
>
> Usually when people say HTML5, they mean the <audio> and <video> elements,
> which currently no DOS browser supports. They are a _good_ thing. They
> make it possible to include audio and video without relying on proprietary
> technologies such as Flash (which fortunately hardly any site requires
> anymore, probably because of iOS's popularity).
>
> In fact, I am sure Arachne could easily support them by just rendering
> them as a link and then downloading the audio/video file and starting the
> appropriate program, like it already does. The <audio> and <video>
> elements pretty much are just an extended version of the old <a> element
> that support specifying multiple formats so the browser can choose one
> depending on what it supports.
>
> Of course, the bigger problem is that nobody really works on Arachne
> anymore (and I'm not blaming anyone).
>
> > I've thought of buying a cheap refurbished SATA hard drive, maybe 80 GB
> > or 160 GB, to install FreeDOS and ReactOS, and maybe OpenBSD in the
> > remaining space, using MBR, but FreeDOS and ReactOS might be bitchy
> > about having to be on the first partition, and then there is the
> > limitation on FAT32 partition size; 4 KB cluster size goes up to 8GB.
>
> I don't know for ReactOS, but FreeDOS is perfectly fine with not being on
> the first partition. I have it installed on a disk which also has an NTFS
> and a BFS (Haiku) partition and everything works as it should.
>
> Why is cluster size a problem? If you have such a large disk then you
> probably don't care about wasting more than 4K on a small file. And it's
> not like [Free]DOS really requires more than a few megabytes anyway.
>
> According to Wikipedia, FAT32 can support partitions up to 2 TB with
> 512-byte sectors, or 16 TB with 4K sectors, but I think Windows won't let
> you create a partition of that size.
>
>
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