On 2012-11-12 15:15 (GMT-0500) Karen Lewellen composed: > Let me be more clear since you may have missed this. gives me a chance to > share a source for utilities. > we tried using many from the ultimate boot cd,
> www.ultimatebootcd.com I use it for several things, but partitioning is not among them. > Including both ranish partition manager andgparted as suggested. > All of these tools are modern, start creating the partitions from the > front of the disk as in cylinder 0, and all of > our efforts > always to create less than 8 gig of partition from the front. In fact in > order to create the required fat 16 primary partition it must be less than > 2 gig at the front of the disk. > I do agree about using Dr dos's fdisk, which is why we tried so many > other ones. Sometimes what you get for free is worth exactly what you paid for it. I only use non-free DFSee (usable on 30 day trial for free) for my partitioning. It runs exactly the same on DOS, Windows, OS/2, Linux and Mac, and its partitions are also cross-platform compatible. If you don't want to try it yourself, I suggest if you haven't already to try Parted Magic. I repartitioned once more with DFSee to ensure all partitions on the 30G HD were below about 7.5GiB thus: FAT16 pri 2037.6M FAT16 log 1801.4M FAT16 log 1801.4M FAT16 log 1801.4M Next I booted a PC DOS 2000 floppy and did: format C: /s format D: format E: format F: PC DOS 2000 (aka PC DOS Version 7.0, Revision 1) now boots from HD, and I'm able to change to any of the 4 drives. PC DOS FDISK reports all correctly. With larger partitions leaving F: partly lying above the 8G limit, attempting to do anything with F: produced invalid drive specification. I expect DR DOS 7.3 should behave as well partitioned similarly. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single web console. Get in-depth insight into apps, servers, databases, vmware, SAP, cloud infrastructure, etc. Download 30-day Free Trial. Pricing starts from $795 for 25 servers or applications! http://p.sf.net/sfu/zoho_dev2dev_nov _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
