Hi Dan,
the rationale for the "lite" installer to use FAT12 is that it would fit on the most tiny USB sticks that way. Which is something I also have complained about, because nobody has ONLY THAT SMALL sticks available today ;-) Note that there are different partition types for FAT with and without support for 32-bit sector numbers, so my preferred type would be "FAT16 between 32 MB and 2 GB" for the installer image. No FAT12, no "max 32 MB" types. Even when this means you cannot resize the installer partition to more than 2 GB, it should still give you plenty of space and you could add some FAT32 partition of arbitrary size to make use of the rest of your drive. I assume your report is about the type of the partition on the install medium itself, not about the partition on your target drive when you install to a built-in SSD or harddisk in your computer? Be warned that FreeDOS is NOT able to resize and preserve existing partitions, so installing it to harddisk or SSD will cause data loss if you already have other data there! However, if you already have a primary FAT partition on the target drive, you could install FreeDOS there without formatting or partitioning the drive. If you have another bootable OS on the partition, using FreeDOS SYS will of course replace the boot sector and make the previous OS no longer boot. Installing a boot menu is possible, but requires some expertise and work to do properly. Regards, Eric > I've installed FreeDOS 1.3-RC4 with FD13LITE.img on a 4GB USB drive. This > works and I can boot it just fine, but the primary partition uses FAT12 and > is 97% full. I would like to expand this partition with gparted, but that > no longer supports FAT12. Can I ask what the rationale is for using FAT12? _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
