Hi, > On Jan 10, 2022, at 1:37 PM, Jim Hall <jh...@freedos.org> wrote: > > >> >>>> On Jan 10, 2022, at 10:57 AM, Tyson Oswald <oswa...@charter.net> wrote: >>>> >>>> Alright I have tried to Crete a VMDK virtual hard disk in Box but when I >>>> go to format the disk I get an error >>>> >>>> DOS Diver error (hex) 01 >>>> >>>> [Error 129] > >>>> On Jan 10, 2022, at 11:53 AM, Jerome Shidel <jer...@shidel.net> wrote: >>> >>> Assuming it was renamed properly, and during boot the kernel displays the >>> drive…. >>> >>> Without knowing more… I think that is an FDISK bug. Or, possible one with >>> FORMAT. >>> Regardless, I’ve seen this several times with small drives. >>> >>> Make sure you HD size is in excess of 512 MB. Pre-allocated and not set to >>> SPLIT. > >> On Mon, Jan 10, 2022 at 11:20 AM Tyson Oswald <oswa...@charter.net> wrote: >> >> Ah, I had it set for 500mb, I’ll try something larger >> > > > Not to confuse things, but I've used a much smaller VDI (200MB) on > VirtualBox to install "plain DOS" with FreeDOS 1.3 RC5, and that > worked fine. ("Plain DOS" takes only 20MB on the hard drive, so I > didn't need a very big virtual disk.) > > I set it as "fixed size" so it creates the full VirtualBox Disk Image > ("VDI") right away .. because 200MB or even 500MB is not that big > these days. Creating a 500MB VDI took less than a second to do during > my video: > https://youtu.be/vE9CwMBvqnw?t=79 > > Jim >
Yup, me too. But, I’ve also seen issues with <512mb partitions as well. So, IDK. It’s weird. > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-devel mailing list > Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel