Thanks - yes, I thought I would keep and use the smaller installation partition for recovery and future :) upgrades. It's not in the way of anything.
I'll look into EtherDFS today. My main computer runs on Windows 10, which is always a challenge with sharing/permission rights due to builtin security. The others all run some type of Linux, which is easy to network. Marv On Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 8:24 PM Jerome Shidel <jer...@shidel.net> wrote: > > > On Nov 12, 2020, at 7:02 PM, Marv <m207...@gmail.com> wrote: > > [...] > > > > I copied everything on the FreeDos 1.3 Live CD over to the 1GB partition > using Windows 2000. Then I disconnected the new drive with Windows 2000 and > made the old 4.3GB drive the master. > > > > Next, I rebooted to the Windows Live CD without installing anything. At > that point, I removed the CD and changed over to the 1GB partition [D:] > with the copy of the Live CD and executed setup.bat, which installed > FreeDos in the empty 3.3GB partition [C:]. > > > > The installation completed and rebooted to the new installation of FreeDos > without any complaints. Needless to say, FreeDos doesn’t recognize the CD > drive or the USB port, but that was no surprise, since I couldn’t use them > for the installation, either. > > > That is very similar to the dual disk and OEM style install I demonstrated > for 1.2. > > Basically, the OEM style version had a complete copy sitting on a > partition. That booted and installed 1.2 to a new partition. The installer > activated that new partition during installation. Subsequent boots went > straight to the users installed partition. However, this also has two > interesting effects. First, it leaves the CD contents on the other > partition and the user can easily install or remove packages. Also, > provides a recovery partition to reinstall the OS. > > > [..] > > > If your networking driver is working, consider trying EtherDFS. It’s works > pretty good for transferring files to/from DOS and a Linux server. > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user >
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