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[Nomdo Jansonius <nomdo AT dds.nl>]

Well, after all Basiclinux appears to like Abiword. The "0 bytes DR-DOS to 
BL communication bug" was fixed after removing the extended partition 
from DR-DOS. Now I have four primary partitions on both HD's and 
everything seems to work fine. Thanks, Nomdo
 

On 2004-01-05 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org said:
   >Cc: BasicLinux List <71cm-s9q8 AT dea.spamcon.org>
   >Nomdo Jansonius wrote:
   >> Next I did: mount /dev/hda6 /dos.
   >> Now abiword.tgz survived, but about 10 other .tgz files
   >> disappeared completely (even not 0 bytes remaining)!
   >/dev/hda6 is very unstable.  Every partition on that drive
   >could have similar instability when shared between DrDOS
   >and Linux.
   >---------------------------------
   >/dev/hda1               C:
   >/dev/hda2               extended
   >/dev/hda3   BL1 root
   >/dev/hda4   swap
   >/dev/hda5               E:
   >/dev/hda6   /dos        F:
   >/dev/hda7               G:
   >/dev/hdb1   BL2 root
   >/dev/hdb2   swap
   >/dev/hdb4               D:
   >---------------------------------
   >> DR-DOS has put its primary FAT16 on the second HD in hdb4
   >> for some reason (I started with DR-DOS on an empty HD, linux
   >> partitions were made later).
   >I suspect that DrDOS numbers the partitions from the opposite
   >end.  This isn't a problem when DrDOS is alone on the system,
   >but cohabitation with Linux is problematical.
   >It is possible that there is some workaround for this issue;
   >however, I don't expect to find one.  Only a minority of people
   >run DOS and Linux on the same machine, and very few of those
   >use DrDOS.  The problem is so limited in application that I
   >would be surprised if anybody took the time to develop a fix
   >(although I could be wrong).
   >> DR-DOS seems not to accept two primary partitions on one HD.
   >> After one primary partition has been made, fdisk offers only
   >> the option to create (logical drives in) an extended partition.
   >After creating the first (primary) partition in DOS (and
   >leaving the rest of the HD unpartitioned), you can boot
   >BL2 (ramdisk) and create three more primary partitions
   >(with DOS IDs).  Then, when you return to DOS, you (hopefully)
   >will be able to;
   >---------
   >format D:
   >format E:
   >format F:
   >---------
   >* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
   >*                                                             *
   >*  If anybody has an old HD with nothing important on it, I   *
   >*  would be grateful for some feedback on this.  Is DOS able  *
   >*  to format extra primary partitions as described above?     *
   >*                                                             *
   >* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
   >> What DOS are BL-users using? FreeDos? Other DOS?
   >I mostly use MS-DOS 6, but I sometimes use MS-DOS 5 or
   >PC-DOS 3.3.  Any of the mainstream DOSes (MSDOS, PCDOS)
   >are good.  There are risks with an unconventional DOS,
   >particularly one that doesn't stick to the established
   >ways of doing things.
   >Cheers,
   >Steven