Re: [Freedos-user] Cobalt OS 1.1

On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 4:11 PM, Rugxulo wrote: > Vista and newer can resize its own NTFS partitions. Perhaps if you're > trying to use XP then you'll need something else (GParted liveCD?). I used Win7 Disk Management to carve out a raw slice on the boot drive to install

Re: [Freedos-user] Cobalt OS 1.1

Hi, On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 9:40 AM, Louis Santillan wrote: > > Try Jeremy's Partition Resizer FD Image [0][1]. You'll need an > zip/archive program that decompress gzip. > > [0] http://www.fdos.org/bootdisks/ > [1] http://www.fdos.org/bootdisks/autogen/FDPRSZR.144.gz > > On

Re: [Freedos-user] Cobalt OS 1.1

Thanks to all. Currently on vacation and having to struggle with 70F sunny weather - yes, it can be a struggle, I got the machine last week and couldn't fool with it yet. This clown speaks for himself > On Feb 22, 2016, at 11:38 AM, Don Flowers wrote: > > Smart Boot

Re: [Freedos-user] Cobalt OS 1.1

Smart Boot Manager or Grub4DOS https://sourceforge.net/projects/btmgr/ http://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/boot/grub4dos/ SBM installs in MBR so no need for extra partition. Grub4DOS will install boot code in MBR and GRLDR in FreeDOS partition. On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at

Re: [Freedos-user] Cobalt OS 1.1

There are several listed here [0]. grub4dos and bootmgr seem to be most popular. [0] http://www.freedos.org/software/?cat=boot On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 7:49 AM, Wayne Dernoncourt wrote: > Can anyone recommend a boot manager? The plan is to use Windows7 & FreeDOS. > > This

Re: [Freedos-user] Cobalt OS 1.1

Can anyone recommend a boot manager? The plan is to use Windows7 & FreeDOS. This clown speaks for himself > On Feb 22, 2016, at 9:40 AM, Louis Santillan wrote: > > Try Jeremy's Partition Resizer FD Image [0][1]. You'll need an > zip/archive program that decompress gzip. >

Re: [Freedos-user] Cobalt OS 1.1

I'm planning on installing FreeDOS on a new/old Windows machine I just bought specifically to install FreeDOS. But it occurred to me that there was almost no way I was going to be able the _hooj_ (insert D Trump voice here) amount of disk space that would be leftover that I could keep Windows

[Freedos-user] Cobalt OS 1.1

A little while back, I talked on here about my new FreeDOS distribution, Cobalt. Cobalt is designed to make using DOS easier, by including commonly-used drivers and software. I just released Cobalt 1.1 on GitHub (changelog and download here