Hello to all you of you FreeDOS experts.
I’m working on a utility to check the state of the hard disk drives prior to
the installation of FreeDOS.
This utility “CheckHDD” will scan the system and figure out what the FreeDOS
installer needs to
do to the drives for a successful install.
I’ve got a couple questions for you all.
Can FreeDOS be installed on a partition >2gb.
Will it work above the 2gb limit?
Will it boot from the second primary DOS partition on the same drive?
You get the idea.
After it figures stuff out, it will exit with an appropriate errorlevel for the
FreeDOS installer to
process.
At present this is what I am thinking:
7 - No Hard Drive Detected.
Can’t find any physical hard drives.
Either misconfigured controller, no drives, dead drive… etc
Unless they want a boot floppy, cannot proceed.
6 - No Primary DOS Partitions Found.
You need to partition a drive for FreeDOS.
5 - Primary Partition Not marked Bootable.
C is not bootable, run fdisk and make it active or ignore and just
install.
4 - "Boot" partition not formatted.
hey, you want to format C:?
3 - No Boot code in MBR.
Um, won’t format /s or sys c: fix this?
2 - “Boot” partition not on first hard disk drive and a dos partition is on
there.
Might be ok, if system is set to boot second hard disk drive first or
boot loader
like grub is being used.
1 - Other DOS partitions sectors past 2 gb limit:
I hear people are doing this and it is working for them.
However, is not recommended.
Warn user and proceed to install prompts.
0 - No Issues found:
Procedure to Install?
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