Thanks for the info. As someone who never delved that deeply into the 
technicalities of the program, I think that's pretty awesome!

On 12/22/2015 4:30 PM, Eric Auer wrote:
> Hi!
>
> We already have command line control for at least one of the fdisk
> variants which usually ship with FreeDOS, but using that to let the
> installer auto-kill all the data of the user gives me nightmares.
>
> You can simply use FDISK /? (who would have guessed it) to get a
> list of the command line controlled options of FDISK, such as the
> /CLEAR option which deletes all partitions or /PRI to create them.
>
> You can also backup your MBR with FDISK /SMBR and restore it using
> FDISK /AMBR which is nice if you used FDISK /MBR or FDISK /BMBR to
> kill your boot menu or overwrite it with "booteasy", or used FDISK
> option /RMBR to remove the MBR boot code completely...
>
> Another useful option set is CLEARFLAG SETFLAG and TESTFLAG to find
> out which partitions are bootable etc. or to change boot-abilities.
>
> You can use FDISK /INFO, FDISK /INFO /TECH, FDISK /STATUS and even
> FDISK /DUMP to display the current partitioning situation of disks.
>
> Cheers, Eric
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> _______________________________________________
> Freedos-devel mailing list
> [email protected]
> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel


------------------------------------------------------------------------------
_______________________________________________
Freedos-devel mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel

Reply via email to