Re: [Freedos-user] Question about xFDisk and a multiboot setup

2023-03-14 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Tue, Mar 14, 2023 at 3:54 PM Eric Auer wrote: > > > Hi Eric I have partition magic for dos this can create partition for > > freedos? > > I guess it can, given that it is a partition editor :-) > > I do not know whether the DOS version can create LBA > partitions or FAT32 partitions, so if

Re: [Freedos-user] Question about xFDisk and a multiboot setup

2023-03-14 Thread usul
I think I have managed to get both MSDos and Freedos though currently I cannot boot into freedos Trying to find a version of Linux that I like, I will probably pick Manjaro XFCE, that seems to run the best on that laptop and have access to the stuff I need/want which is mostly Virtual Box, and Vis

Re: [Freedos-user] Question about xFDisk and a multiboot setup

2023-03-14 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Gabriele, Hi Eric I have partition magic for dos this can create partition for freedos? I guess it can, given that it is a partition editor :-) I do not know whether the DOS version can create LBA partitions or FAT32 partitions, so if this is an old DOS software, it may be better to use mo

Re: [Freedos-user] Question about xFDisk and a multiboot setup

2023-03-14 Thread Gabriele Barbone
Hi Eric I have partition magic for dos this can create partition for freedos? Il gio 9 mar 2023, 23:08 Eric Auer ha scritto: > > Hi! > > You could try metakern: FreeDOS SYS has command line options to write > the boot sector to a file instead of to the boot sector. You can use > either DEBUG or

Re: [Freedos-user] Question about xFDisk and a multiboot setup

2023-03-13 Thread usul
I was looking at that. On Mon, Mar 13, 2023 at 1:55 PM Louis Santillan wrote: > Might I suggest you try Microwindows/Nano-X on DOS and Linux? > > http://www.microwindows.org/ > > > On Mon, Mar 13, 2023 at 11:41 AM usul wrote: > >> I probably am that guy. I couldn't post in groups on FB for a

Re: [Freedos-user] Question about xFDisk and a multiboot setup

2023-03-13 Thread Louis Santillan
Might I suggest you try Microwindows/Nano-X on DOS and Linux? http://www.microwindows.org/ On Mon, Mar 13, 2023 at 11:41 AM usul wrote: > I probably am that guy. I couldn't post in groups on FB for a couple of > days. and I am itching to do something. LOL. > > Thanks for the links... > As s

Re: [Freedos-user] Question about xFDisk and a multiboot setup

2023-03-13 Thread usul
I probably am that guy. I couldn't post in groups on FB for a couple of days. and I am itching to do something. LOL. Thanks for the links... As soon as I find a linux distro that I like that works on the laptop I will start looking at them in more detail. I think it would be fun to write somet

Re: [Freedos-user] Question about xFDisk and a multiboot setup

2023-03-13 Thread Liam Proven
On Thu, 9 Mar 2023 at 15:18, usul wrote: > > Why? cause I always get asked... Ah, you are the same person who asked on the Facebook FreeDOS group? > Because I want to code some stuff for windows 3.11 last time I did I was > working in VB 3 lol, > run XAppeal and DESQview/X 2.1 and cause if they

Re: [Freedos-user] Question about xFDisk and a multiboot setup

2023-03-09 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! Let me get a bit more verbose in my installation thoughts. If you want to hide FreeDOS and MS DOS from each other, at least a bit, you could use filesystem choice for that: Install Linux on a Linux filesystem. Install XP on some NTFS filesystem. Install FreeDOS on a FAT32 filesystem. Inst

Re: [Freedos-user] Question about xFDisk and a multiboot setup

2023-03-09 Thread usul
I am no longer an experienced DOS user. I am relearning. And only understood half of what you said. Guess I have gotten old and lazy. and even back in the day I just went right to windows, to work in VB 3. I think 95 came out a year after I really got my start. Plus I really want them to be separ

Re: [Freedos-user] Question about xFDisk and a multiboot setup

2023-03-09 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! You could try metakern: FreeDOS SYS has command line options to write the boot sector to a file instead of to the boot sector. You can use either DEBUG or Linux or simple or fancy DOS tools of your choice to harvest the boot sectors of MS DOS and XP. If FreeDOS finds the file fdconfig.sys,

[Freedos-user] Question about xFDisk and a multiboot setup

2023-03-09 Thread usul
Was there a reason this doesn't seem to be included on the usb installer (if it is I can't find it) I and trying to get a multiboot setup 1. MSDOS 6.22 + Win 3.11 2. FreeDos 1.3 3. I was going to do XP but annoying so no. (it dumped on drive "E", getting networking and drivers was a