Re: int 0x13 utility

On Wed, 2 Apr 2008 08:57:03 +0100, Alex Buell  <spamtrap@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
wrote:

>On Tue, 01 Apr 2008 17:03:34 -0700, I waved a wand and this message
>magically appears in front of Red Rooster:
>
>> No MS/DR/PC-DOS can handle more than 2GB partitions, as this is a
>> limitation of FAT16 (Ok, Windows NT can handle up to 4G, using 64KB
>> clusters on FAT16). And MS-DOS 6.22 is what the OP was trying to use.
>
>Not quite right. If you extract DOS 7.x from the Windows 95 OSR 2 (or
>better) distribution media, you have a DOS that's capable of using FAT32
>on most large hard disks. I've managed to install it on a Pentium 166
>w/ a 40GB hard disk. Works a treat, if I might say so myself!

Yes.  Just create an EBD from Win -- that gets most of the files. Most
if not all of the rest of the DOS type files are in
C:\Windows\Command.

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