Re: [Freedos-user] Partition layout comments

2010-05-22 Thread Liam Proven
On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 12:59 AM, dos386 wrote: >> Compaq MS-DOS 3.31, large FAT32 partitions with up to 32 sectors >> per cluster for partitions up to 2GB > > You meant probably: > > Compaq MS-DOG 3.31, large FAT16 partitions with up to 64 sectors > per cluster (32 KiB) for partitions up to almos

Re: [Freedos-user] Partition layout comments

2010-05-22 Thread dos386
> Compaq MS-DOS 3.31, large FAT32 partitions with up to 32 sectors > per cluster for partitions up to 2GB You meant probably: Compaq MS-DOG 3.31, large FAT16 partitions with up to 64 sectors per cluster (32 KiB) for partitions up to almost 2 GiB -- ~~~ wow ~~~ ---

Re: [Freedos-user] Partition layout comments

2010-05-22 Thread Liam Proven
On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 5:38 AM, jasse...@itelefonica.com.br wrote: > Recently posted in this list: > >>(Alain Mouette) >>No it has never been illegal, and it always worked >>just fine. I use these since forever... what happened >>is that most tools did not have a way of making them, >>but if you

Re: [Freedos-user] Partition layout comments

2010-05-21 Thread jasse...@itelefonica.com.br
Recently posted in this list: >(Alain Mouette) >No it has never been illegal, and it always worked >just fine. I use these since forever... what happened >is that most tools did not have a way of making them, >but if you know how to make them it allways worked >since MSDOS-3. >(Liam Proven) >

Re: [Freedos-user] Partition layout

2007-09-03 Thread chris evans
>All labels are unique and contain the drive letter. Do you consider >DOS, W2K and Warp4 to be obscure? Also every partition has a directory >of the form "1_Name_X" where X is the drive letter. The one forces it >to sort at the top. So from any HDD utility or directory listing I know >the p

Re: [Freedos-user] Partition layout

2007-08-31 Thread Ray Davison
Eric Auer wrote: > > Oops sorry I mean sys.txt, not config.txt ... OK. There is also SYS.EN. The only SYS I know about is SYS.COM. I have been trying; C:\FDOS\BIN\sys.com dlasort=X Is this correct, and if so where do I put it? So far all I have gotten is a SYS help screen. > >>Do you unders

Re: [Freedos-user] Partition layout

2007-08-31 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! > > Hi, maybe it is useful to try SYS CONFIG to switch > > the DLASORT option to 0 or 1. Please read the docs > > to be more exact, the config.txt file :-) Oops sorry I mean sys.txt, not config.txt ... > A search for DLASORT*.* failed to find anything on the CD or HDD. > I also do not find

Re: [Freedos-user] Partition layout

2007-08-31 Thread Ray Davison
chris evans wrote: > 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 >

Re: [Freedos-user] Partition layout

2007-08-31 Thread Ray Davison
Eric Auer wrote: > Hi, maybe it is useful to try SYS CONFIG to switch > the DLASORT option to 0 or 1. Please read the docs, > to be more exact, the config.txt file :-) Probably > still does not behave as DR DOS, but I do remember > that DLASORT is there because some people were not > happy with the

Re: [Freedos-user] Partition layout

2007-08-31 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, maybe it is useful to try SYS CONFIG to switch the DLASORT option to 0 or 1. Please read the docs, to be more exact, the config.txt file :-) Probably still does not behave as DR DOS, but I do remember that DLASORT is there because some people were not happy with the "behave as MS DOS" default

Re: [Freedos-user] Partition layout

2007-08-30 Thread chris evans
? --chris http://www.aotksc.com/rtwist/ - Original Message From: Alain M. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 7:43:37 PM Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Partition layout Ray Davison escreveu: > The labels include the drive letters

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,