Re: [Freedos-user] Partition layout

2007-08-30 Thread chris evans
Better to label your drive volumes to something other than obscure or drive letters, like DATA, or your name. that way when you in a fdisk program or other OS you can see what is what and not cause an accident. Curious, I thought that the DOS will only point C: to the first primary found? --c

Re: [Freedos-user] Partition layout

2007-08-30 Thread john s wolter
I've got a SUSE LINUX Pro 9.3, IBM PC DOS 6.x(drive C:), MS-Win98E(drive C:), IBM Warp 3(drive F:) on /dev/hda and booted using GRUB as a boot manager. GRUB has a number of features for booting most any OS which may help your situation. I hide and unhide various partitions as necessary to get th

Re: [Freedos-user] Partition layout

2007-08-30 Thread Alain M.
Ray Davison escreveu: > The labels include the drive letters, if they boot to their physical > position. And that is the challenge. Booting FreeDOS 1.0, the W2K-D > primary picks up the letter after any extended partitions. With DRDOS > 7.01 Fat32, they hold their physical position. Extra

[Freedos-user] Partition layout

2007-08-30 Thread Ray Davison
I have always had a single primary C for DOS and W9X, and everything else extended. W2K then puts it's boot files on C. That can cause problems trying to restore the W2K partition from backup. So I created the drive below. I am sure it will wrap. Sorry. The labels include the drive letters,

[Freedos-user] PRINT command

2007-08-30 Thread Chris Ruhl
Hi, Eric! Your changes to the Print command did increase printing dramatically and placed it on par with ms print! - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. N