Hi,
On 6 Oct 2021, at 23:12, Steve Nickolas wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Oct 2021, tom ehlert wrote:
>
>>
users will have FAR more than 60 GB disk size and you can
have only 24 drive letters from C: to Z:
>>
>>> Up to 32 under some DOS/Windows versions:
>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drive_let
On Wed, 6 Oct 2021, tom ehlert wrote:
users will have FAR more than 60 GB disk size and you can
have only 24 drive letters from C: to Z:
Up to 32 under some DOS/Windows versions:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drive_letter_assignment#Common_assignments
while technically true, it just doesn
>> users will have FAR more than 60 GB disk size and you can
>> have only 24 drive letters from C: to Z:
> Up to 32 under some DOS/Windows versions:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drive_letter_assignment#Common_assignments
while technically true, it just doesn't make ever sense to have setup
s
>> users will have FAR more than 60 GB disk size and you can
>> have only 24 drive letters from C: to Z:
> Up to 32 under some DOS/Windows versions:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drive_letter_assignment#Common_assignments
While you CAN have up to 32 drive letters, it's usually not a good idea t
Hi Eric,
> users will have FAR more than 60 GB disk size and you can
> have only 24 drive letters from C: to Z:
Up to 32 under some DOS/Windows versions:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drive_letter_assignment#Common_assignments
Cheers,
Robert
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As the function to autoformat in fdisk is relatively small, let me copy it here:
First function in the file:
https://gitlab.com/FDOS/base/fdisk/-/blob/master/SOURCE/FDISK/FDISK/FDISKIO.C
/* Automatically partition the selected hard drive */
void Automatically_Partition_Hard_Drive()
{
int index=0
it's 2021?
On Fri, Sep 24, 2021 at 4:50 PM Paul Dufresne via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> Le ven., 24 sept. 2021 13:22:11 -0400 Eric Auer
> écrit
>
> >
> > Hi Jerome,
> >
> > > If ... there are no partitions on the target hard drive,
> > > it tells fdisk to automatically partition th
Le ven., 24 sept. 2021 13:22:11 -0400 Eric Auer écrit
>
> Hi Jerome,
>
> > If ... there are no partitions on the target hard drive,
> > it tells fdisk to automatically partition the drive...
>
> > If there is a command line option to perform automatic
> > partitioning
Hi Jerome,
> If ... there are no partitions on the target hard drive,
> it tells fdisk to automatically partition the drive...
> If there is a command line option to perform automatic
> partitioning using a single big partition, I am unaware of it.
If FDISK defaults to making 1000 partitions o
> On Sep 23, 2021, at 7:52 AM, Paul Dufresne via Freedos-devel
> wrote:
>
> Ok... when I wake up this morning... I realized I knew more of this problem
> than I thought.
>
> Having look at the installer scripts before, I kind of remember that in some
> case it split the
> image file (norma
Ok... when I wake up this morning... I realized I knew more of this problem
than I thought.
Having look at the installer scripts before, I kind of remember that in some
case it split the
image file (normally the FreeDOS image file) in 2 GB chunks. I did not
understood it clearly.
Shidel would
Tom said:
> Why do you need to subdivide the 60 GB hard disk into 2 GB partitions?
It's not that I need to subdivide into 2 GB partition.
This newly bought old laptop was saying "No OS".
And while booting FreeDOS it was showing almost a screen full of 2 GB
partitions...
I kind of assume it was a
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I was testing an old laptop (Thinkpad I think, 2 cores, with a 60 GB hard disk).
I wanted to install a Linux, but as the CPU was 32 bits, I had some difficulty
finding a 32 bits OS.
One of my USB keys, had FreeDOS beta on it... so I tried it.
When installing, I saw (was scrolling fast)... that
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