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From: "Alain" <alainm AT pobox DOT com>
To: <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: DRDOS FDISK
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 11:57:05 -0300
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>How do you do 2 primary partitions?  I usually do a primary and an
>exteneded and then make a logical DOS drive in the extended partition,
>but wondered if there were other/better ways to partition my HD.
>Chad Fernandez
>Michigan, USA


First trick:
use win98's fdisk and create a partition in fat32
use ms-dos 6.22's fdisk: it will not recognize the fat32 and will create 
another partition that is ok.
problem: the dos partition will have problems if your drive has too
many cylinders, and it cannot use either cyl>1024 or drive >8Gb

Second trick:
use Partition Magic, and after creating it, use the "unhide" option
this has the advantage that you can move your existing partitions
and use the first physical one for dr-dos or ms-dos

Third:
according to Brian, FreeFdisk can create extra promary partitions.

The nice thing is that YOU DON'T NEED BOOT MANAGER you can use
fdisk to select the active partition.
CAUTION : there was a bug in FreeFdisk, use only the latest version.

Alain