Determining partition types (NTFS, etc)
Please excuse my 'newbie' question...
I'm considering setting up a dual-boot (or more) system.
How do I determine what type partition my system has?
Hopefully I'll end up with both FreeDOS & Linux on the same drive.
Thanks for your patient support.
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> Subject: Freedos-user Digest, Vol 334, Issue 1
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> Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 12:46:35 +0000
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> 1. Re: freedos - Modern sata dvd dual layer not found
> (Christian Masloch)
> 2. Re: (fdapm vs idlehalt performance and energy saving in dos)
> (Eric Auer)
> 3. Re: FreeDOS Networking with other OS (Eric Auer)
> 4. New FreeDOSers Monthly Reminder (jp_free...@gcfl.net)
> 5. Warning, dont left your freedos cd on the computer!!!
> (Marco Achury)
> 6. The Ikon GUI has been released under Public Domain license
> (Mateusz Viste)
> 7. Hello! (Willi Wasser)
> 8. Re: Hello! (Hans)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2009 14:30:02 +0100
> From: "Christian Masloch" <c...@bttr-software.de>
> Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] freedos - Modern sata dvd dual layer not
> found
> To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net
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> > First of all, what is AHCI? isn't that related to USB???
>
> No. USB is related to the UHCI (USB 1.0), OHCI (USB 1.1), EHCI (USB 2.0),
> WHCI (Wireless USB) and XHCI (USB 3.0). AHCI is an interface for SATA
> controllers.
>
> Regards,
> Christian
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2009 23:02:45 +0100
> From: Eric Auer <e.a...@jpberlin.de>
> Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] (fdapm vs idlehalt performance and energy
> saving in dos)
> To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net
> Message-ID: <4b3a7c85.5020...@jpberlin.de>
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>
> Hi Marcos,
>
> thanks for the in-depth measurements :-)
>
> > 1 FDAPM APMDOS + IDLEHALT=1 11 sec
>
> > 2 FDAPM ADV:REG + IDLEHALT=1 6 sec
> > 3 FDAPM APMDOS 6 sec
> > 4 IDLEHALT=1 6 sec
>
> > 5 FDAPM ADV:REG about half a sec
> > 6 (nothing) about half a sec
>
> > I adopted option 5 to work with Desi-III, of course.
>
> I agree that this is the best option. To answer your questions:
> IDLEHALT is in the kernel, you do not have to load it. You only
> activate it or not. FDAPM is more advanced, but takes a bit of
> DOS memory. The ADV:REG option usually saves almost as much of
> your battery power as the normal APMDOS option. You do not get
> extra savings by combining FDAPM and IDLEHALT, only slowness ;-)
>
> You do not need to standby or suspend DOS - just shutdown the PC
> when you do not need it and reboot it when you need it again, a
> DOS system usually boots very quickly. However, FDAPM does have
> support for APM BIOS standby and suspend. Whether it actually
> will work and wake up properly depends on the BIOS. If you get
> stuck, you can always keep the power button of your PC pressed
> for several seconds to force a power-off or power-on.
>
> Newer BIOSes do not support any APM. They only support ACPI. For
> ACPI, FDAPM gives you throttling (SPEED1 to SPEED8) and poweroff
> but no actually useful standby or suspend options... Throttling
> means that your CPU will be halted up to 7/8 of the time, which
> is also a nice thing for playing too fast old DOS games :-). It
> is also possible to suspend other components with DOS PCISLEEP.
>
> Note that all the throttling and suspending stuff does not save
> much more energy than FDAPM APMDOS on a typical desktop PC if
> DOS is just waiting for input at the prompt.
>
> I also made a tool for AMD "Cool n Quiet" to switch my CPU
> to 1 GHz and lower voltage, but this only works for the CPU
> and mainboard for which you compile it. For automatic setup
> for generic PC, the tool would be complex and I was lazy...
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 3
> Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2009 23:30:41 +0100
> From: Eric Auer <e.a...@jpberlin.de>
> Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Networking with other OS
> To: mad.marvin.moonsha...@gmail.com,
> freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net
> Message-ID: <4b3a8311.1070...@jpberlin.de>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
>
>
> Hi!
>
> > I've never used FreeDOS before...
> > Is it possible to log into a headless FreeDOS box from Linux?
> > I'm considering setting up an electronic workbench PC with FreeDOS.
>
> Interesting :-) DOS is single tasking, so you cannot easily run
> a telnet or ssh server and let that start a login shell such as
> command.com from there. However, you can use network stacks as
> wattcp (for 32bit apps in dos: watt32) to access the network...
>
> For example there are ssh2dos and smbclient clients for ssh and
> samba. There are also DOS http servers such as Ez-Nos or Sioux.
>
> www.georgpotthast.de/sioux/
>
> Apparently wattcp has a telnetd as one of the sample apps?
>
> Maybe: www.umich.edu/~archive/msdos/communications/wattcp/
> (could somebody mirror this before it turns into dust? ;-))
>
> More watt32 DOS network apps / servers: www.bgnett.no/~giva/
>
> Many mixed links: www.freedos.org/freedos/news/technote/157.html
> www.freedos.org/freedos/links/ - for example has this guide:
>
> http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/freedos/index.php?title=Networking_FreeDOS
>
> I hope you can get a telnet server working with all those :-)
> Please let me know when you have news about the project.
>
> Eric
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 4
> Date: Fri, 1 Jan 2010 01:00:02 -0600 (CST)
> From: jp_free...@gcfl.net
> Subject: [Freedos-user] New FreeDOSers Monthly Reminder
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> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 5
> Date: Mon, 04 Jan 2010 10:18:49 -0430
> From: Marco Achury <marcoach...@gmail.com>
> Subject: [Freedos-user] Warning, dont left your freedos cd on the
> computer!!!
> To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net
> Message-ID: <4b41ffd1.3030...@gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
>
>
> I left my FreeDOS 1.0 CD and shutdown the computer
> My mother (that can?t read english) turn on the computer and the
> computer boot fro the cd.
> The she seen an unkown menu press enter several times. Result, she
> begins a FreeDOS install
> on my computer first HD. Damaged my grub. Lucky appear that something
> goes wrong, and the install was aborted. So was not damage on the
> content of my ntfs and ext3 partitions, but I need restart with knoppix
> in order to fix the grub.
>
> Lesson:
> - Dont left you FreeDOS CD on an unattended computer. Specially when
> children or other people use it.
> - Would be great if the menus on the live-cd requires a better
> confirmation prior to install, not simply press enter. Something like:
> To PROCEED TYPE 'INSTALL'
> - The screen may include messages on several languages
>
>
> --
> --
> +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
> Marco A. Achury
> Tel: +58-(212)-6158777
> Cel: +58-(414)-3142282
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> http://www.achury.com.ve
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 6
> Date: Sat, 9 Jan 2010 21:16:37 +0100
> From: Mateusz Viste <mate...@viste-family.net>
> Subject: [Freedos-user] The Ikon GUI has been released under Public
> Domain license
> To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net
> Message-ID: <201001092116.38067.mate...@viste-family.net>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
>
> Hi there!
>
> Just wanted to let know anyone that the author of the Ikon GUI software has
> decided to release Ikon under Public Domain license few weeks ago. :-)
>
> I mirrored it on Ibiblio, at the following address:
> http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/gui/ikon/
>
> Best regards,
> Mateusz
> --
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> Message: 7
> Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 12:46:43 +0100
> From: Willi Wasser <wiw...@web.de>
> Subject: [Freedos-user] Hello!
> To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net
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> Hello everybody.
>
> I just joined this list some days ago, but up to now didn't receive any
> messages.
> Is there really noboby out there, or have i misconfigured something?
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> Greetings from Germany.
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> Wiwa64
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> Message: 8
> Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 11:55:12 -0000
> From: "Hans" <han...@ht-lab.com>
> Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Hello!
> To: <freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net>
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> Lots of people on this list, FreeDOS is alive and kicking :-)
>
> Last email I got was Saturday.
>
> Hans
> www.ht-lab.com
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Willi Wasser" <wiw...@web.de>
> To: <freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net>
> Sent: Monday, January 11, 2010 11:46 AM
> Subject: [Freedos-user] Hello!
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> Hello everybody.
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> I just joined this list some days ago, but up to now didn't receive any
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> Greetings from Germany.
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