I wa able to create and mount/format a VMDK virtual hard disk with fixed size 600MB file. I was able to mount I on MacOS. Thanks Jerome for the assist. Maybe I will do a YT video on it.
Now the fun begins. Tyson > On Jan 10, 2022, at 1:56 PM, Jerome Shidel <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > >> On Jan 10, 2022, at 1:37 PM, Jim Hall <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >>> >>>>> 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 >> > > Yup, me too. > > But, I’ve also seen issues with <512mb partitions as well. So, IDK. It’s > weird. > > > > > >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
