I've decided that it's probably easier to just boot from the usb stick, and then I can use the hard drive for something else.
On Sun, 23 Jul 2023, 21:53 Rugxulo via Freedos-user, < freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, Jul 22, 2023 at 2:44 AM John Vella via Freedos-user > <freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > > > Thanks for the quick reply, Ralf. I have a work around, which did the > trick. I just created four partitions, each less than 32gb on the stick, > and freedos is happy with that. > > Assuming your FreeDOS kernel has FAT32 compiled in (which most do, > omitting it only saves like 2 kb of file size of KERNEL.SYS), it > should be fine. > > I still use my old Dell laptop from 2010 to boot FreeDOS on a (128 GB, > FAT32) USB jump drive made by RUFUS. I don't need any third-party USB > drivers because the BIOS treats it as a hard disk (but, of course, you > can't swap USB sticks, you have to reboot if you want to use a > different one). > > (... more comments below ...) > > > > On Sat, 22 Jul 2023, 03:23 Ralf Quint via Freedos-user, < > freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > >> On 7/21/2023 2:01 PM, John Vella via Freedos-user wrote: > >> > > >> I had never had the need to use such large partitions with (any) DOS, > >> and don't use it for anything else, as it is limited to 4GB file size > too. > > The alleged 4 GB file size doesn't work on some OSes (FreeDOS, Windows > NT?), only on old Win9x. So you're only guaranteed 2 GB individual > file sizes, universally. You'd need DJGPP 2.04 or 2.05 just to (maybe) > handle it. Even then, last I checked, they hardcoded a check for > "version 7 DOS" before enabling FAT32 support (e.g. du or df). > > My old 4 GB FreeDOS partition filled up pretty quickly. I was using at > least 1 GB for DJGPP stuff (mostly backup .ZIPs). > > I would not recommend using FAT16 for anything above (roughly) 510 MB. > Use FAT32 instead (if possible, which is well-supported by most DOSes, > not counting ancient MS-DOS 6.22 and DR-DOS 7.03). > > >> Theoretically, FAT32 could handle up to 2TB in partition size, while > >> newer Windows (and some other OS) limit it to 32GB. > > I believe the Windows limitation was in "creating" FAT32 partitions > larger than 32 GB because MS found that it was otherwise too slow > under real-mode MS-DOS 7. Vista (and newer Windows) won't even boot > from FAT anymore (too slow, security issues). FYI, Windows 11 is > 64-bit host only nowadays and supposedly takes up 25 GB of space. > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user >
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