On 1/4/2021 7:02 AM, Bob Pryor wrote:
Greg
Did the gparted computer partition the CF card as GPT? I believe
FreeDOS only recognizes MBR partitions.
That is correct, but not necessarily the only potential issue...
But after the reboot it comes back and asks again about
partitioning. Granted, I'm guessing that FreeDOS and/or fdisk
wasn't expecting this sort of hardware so maybe this is yet
another wrinkle?
I personally don't trust those CF to IDE adapters, and CF cards in
general, they just seem to add indeed another layer of potential problems...
I did take the CF card and put it on another machine and (via
gparted) made four 2GB partitions and formatted them as FAT32.
When I tried the reinstall again it still comes up saying that the
"disk" needs to be partition though.
HOW did you create those partitions? DOS (any DOS) will work only with
one "primary" partition (partition ID 0Bh/0Ch), any additional ones need
to be "extended" partitions (0Fh, all assuming FAT32).
Ralf
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