Hi!
- it sounds like a very bad idea to create a zillion FAT16 partitions and format only one of them, while using FreeDOS FDISK etc. by hand made it easy for the reviewer to just create ONE FAT32 drive :-p
When the installer verifies there is no drive readable to DOS ... it asks FDISK to please auto-partition the drive. There are no auto-partition options to make only one that uses the entire drive.
FDISK is open source, so the auto-partition feature could and should be updated from "100 FAT16 drives" to "1 FAT32 drive" if possible, but
So, it comes down to making everyone (including novices with no idea how to use fdisk) partition the drive manually or let fdisk do what it wants.
It was a completely normal part of DOS life that when you were planning to install MS DOS you would have to take the time to understand and use FDISK, so I would certainly prefer manual partitioning over autocreated FAT16 C: to ZZZ9: drives of which only C: gets formatted anyway ;-)
Without such an update to fdisk, I still think the benefits provided by auto-partitioning out weigh making everyone manually partition their drive.
That is the part where I disagree and that youtube reviewer is not the first person to make fun of that FDISK "feature". We already have the same discussion on the list :-) As said, remembering that FDISK had a non-free toolchain and no active maintainers, I would prefer to just let people use FDISK by hand if no C: is found. Regards, Eric PS: Odd that the youtuber has even tried the floppy installer at all, as he spends half of his video talking about CD-ROM game support :-o _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
