Re: [Freedos-user] hard drive question?

2012-11-13 Thread Ralf A. Quint
At 06:38 PM 11/13/2012, Michael B. Brutman wrote: >I wanted to be able to dual boot my machine (a PCjr, 1983) to both >operating systems. DOS 3.3 uses an earlier variant of FAT16, which is >only good up to 32MB. Well, that's because this was a "true" FAT16, with up to 65535 sectors of 512 bytes

Re: [Freedos-user] hard drive question?

2012-11-13 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Nov 13, 2012 8:39 PM, "Michael B. Brutman" wrote: > > I think that 8GB is more than enough for any DOS system I'm ever going > to run ... Sarcasm or serious? :-) We all know the (false) 640k quote attributed to Bill Gates. But nothing ever stays the same. While I agree that 8 GB is a t

Re: [Freedos-user] hard drive question?

2012-11-13 Thread Michael B. Brutman
We are far off topic now and I probably should not admit this but ... I've installed both DOS 3.3 and DOS 5 on the same machine lately. And yes, I had to use 32MB partitions. I wanted to be able to dual boot my machine (a PCjr, 1983) to both operating systems. DOS 3.3 uses an earlier variant

Re: [Freedos-user] hard drive question?

2012-11-13 Thread Ray Davison
Single Stage to Orbit wrote: > On Sun, 2012-11-11 at 16:36 +0100, Bernd Blaauw wrote: >> I remember the old days of having 4 (primary? extended? logical?) >> FAT16 partitions of 2GB each, allowing up to 8GB total. > > I remember using 32MB partitions :-) > My first HDD was 28M, and I created three

Re: [Freedos-user] hard drive question?

2012-11-13 Thread Single Stage to Orbit
On Tue, 2012-11-13 at 20:21 +0100, Bernd Blaauw wrote: > > I remember using 32MB partitions :-) > > That's the 80286 era or so. 386/4MB/40MB/DOS5 is furthest it goes back > for me. I was using a "hardcard" with an Amstrad PC1512 CGA and twin 360k floppies. Pretty brilliant for its time. I noti

Re: [Freedos-user] hard drive question?

2012-11-13 Thread Felix Miata
On 2012-11-13 14:28 (GMT-0500) David Kerber composed: > Single Stage to Orbit wrote: >> Bernd Blaauw wrote: >>> I remember the old days of having 4 (primary? extended? logical?) >>> FAT16 partitions of 2GB each, allowing up to 8GB total. >> I remember using 32MB partitions :-) > 32MB is bigger

Re: [Freedos-user] hard drive question?

2012-11-13 Thread David Kerber
> -Original Message- > From: Single Stage to Orbit [mailto:alex.bu...@munted.eu] > Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2012 1:12 PM > To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] hard drive question? > > On Sun, 2012-11-11 at 16:36 +0100, Bernd Blaauw wrote: > > I rememb

Re: [Freedos-user] hard drive question?

2012-11-13 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 13-11-2012 19:12, Single Stage to Orbit schreef: > I remember using 32MB partitions :-) That's the 80286 era or so. 386/4MB/40MB/DOS5 is furthest it goes back for me. -- Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud inf

Re: [Freedos-user] hard drive question?

2012-11-13 Thread Single Stage to Orbit
On Sun, 2012-11-11 at 16:36 +0100, Bernd Blaauw wrote: > I remember the old days of having 4 (primary? extended? logical?) > FAT16 partitions of 2GB each, allowing up to 8GB total. I remember using 32MB partitions :-) -- Tactical Nuclear Kittens ---

Re: [Freedos-user] hard drive question?

2012-11-13 Thread Ray Davison
Karen Lewellen wrote: > Hi folks, > Asking for the person still doing that Dr dos 703 thing. > What is the largest drive capacitor for the current edition of freedos? There has been much discussion regarding which DOS might do what on which machine. Actually determining which will actually work