> >> On Jan 10, 2022, at 10:57 AM, Tyson Oswald <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> Alright I have tried to Crete a VMDK virtual hard disk in Box but when I > >> go to format the disk I get an error > >> > >> DOS Diver error (hex) 01 > >> > >> [Error 129]
> > On Jan 10, 2022, at 11:53 AM, Jerome Shidel <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Assuming it was renamed properly, and during boot the kernel displays the > > drive…. > > > > Without knowing more… I think that is an FDISK bug. Or, possible one with > > FORMAT. > > Regardless, I’ve seen this several times with small drives. > > > > Make sure you HD size is in excess of 512 MB. Pre-allocated and not set to > > SPLIT. On Mon, Jan 10, 2022 at 11:20 AM Tyson Oswald <[email protected]> wrote: > > Ah, I had it set for 500mb, I’ll try something larger > Not to confuse things, but I've used a much smaller VDI (200MB) on VirtualBox to install "plain DOS" with FreeDOS 1.3 RC5, and that worked fine. ("Plain DOS" takes only 20MB on the hard drive, so I didn't need a very big virtual disk.) I set it as "fixed size" so it creates the full VirtualBox Disk Image ("VDI") right away .. because 200MB or even 500MB is not that big these days. Creating a 500MB VDI took less than a second to do during my video: https://youtu.be/vE9CwMBvqnw?t=79 Jim _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
