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
