Hallo Herr tauro via Freedos-user, am Mittwoch, 3. August 2022 um 00:18 schrieben Sie:
>> Apparently on your system the letters D:-G: are already assigned to >> something (like maybe some USB drives or some extra partitions on the hard >> drive(s)?). >> >> You can try seeing if anything exists on the D:-G: drives (e.g., by doing a >> "DIR D:") and see if you can figure out what's going on. > Thank you for your answer Bret, it came in just as I figured out by what > was the > problem. > I installed FreeDOS using the LiveCD, which also partitioned my disk and > formatted the C drive. > Disabling the fdauto.bat and fdconfig.sys files I saw this message: > - InitDiskWARNING: using suspect partition Pri:1 FS 0b: with calculated > values > �261-254-63 instead of� 262-254-63 > C: HD1, Pri[ 1], CHS=��� 0-1-1, start=���� 0 MB, size =� 2055 > MB > WARNING: using suspect partition Pri:1 FS 0b: with calculated values� > 523-254-63 > �instead of� 524-254-63 > D: HD1, Ext[ 1], CHS=� 262-1-1, start=� 2055 MB, size =� 2055 MB > WARNING: using suspect partition Ext:2 FS 0b: with calculated values� > 785-254-63 > �instead of� 786-254-63 > E: HD1, Ext[ 2], CHS=� 524-1-1, start=� 4110 MB, size =� 2055 MB > WARNING: using suspect partition Ext:3 FS 0c: with calculated values > 1024-254-63 > �instead of�� 24-254-63 > F: HD1, Ext[ 3], CHS=� 786-1-1, start=� 6165 MB, size =� 2055 MB > WARNING: using suspect partition Ext:4 FS 0c: with calculated values > 1304-254-63 > �instead of� 281-254-63 > G: HD1, Ext[ 4], CHS= 1048-1-1, start=� 8220 MB, size =� 2015 MB > I don't know if the warning is normal, but from what I could check, the > FreeDOS LiveCD installer by default doesn't create a single FAT32 > partition (10 > GB HDD), but instead it creates a single 2048 MB primary partition, > formatted > FAT32, and four 2 GB logical partitions, and it doesn't format them. > Since the partitions aren't formatted, FreeDOS doesn't mount them, but > it still > assigns them a letter, and that explains why I had this problem. I didn't > expect this to be the default behavior, that's why I didn't check the HDD > partition table to see what was going on. > To solve this, after deleting the partition table, I booted the LiveCD and > repartitioned the disk using fdisk. It created a single 10 GB partition > which I > later formatted to FAT32 with the included format.exe. > After that, the installation went flawlessly and the problem was solved. > It would make more sense if the installer made a single FAT16 2 GB > partition, or > used the whole disk to create a FAT32 partition. The crucial bit is not to > silently create the four logical partitions and also leave them unformatted. > I suggest that there should be an option to let the user decide what to do > between these two options or something else. I really seldom do this, but +1 Tom _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
