Re: [Freedos-user] Question Regarding FreeDOS's fdisk

2018-01-19 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 1:42 PM, Eric Auer wrote: > > There are a few FDISK variants for FreeDOS and some do > have some oddities in how to use them. For example you > may have to edit a config file to activate LBA support > for big disks or FAT32 support, in case you are

Re: [Freedos-user] Question Regarding FreeDOS's fdisk

2018-01-19 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Kyle :-) First, Win98 and DOS ignore NTFS drives. Second, FDISK should easily allow up to 4 primary partitions, but in most cases at most 3, because you need 1 extended to put all the additional drives as a chain there. However, only one partition can be the one which boots by default. So

[Freedos-user] Question Regarding FreeDOS's fdisk

2018-01-19 Thread Kyle Nied
Hello members of this mailing list! My name is Kyle, and I subscribed to this mailing list just to ask a hopefully simple question. I have recently been trying to create a special Win98/XP dual-boot retro gaming PC in which both OSs are installed on a *C* drive. Yes, both. Not like how a normal