DOS ain't dead

Ranish Partition Manager revived (Announce)

posted by Zyzzle, 17.11.2022, 03:20

> Agreed, for now that's what you should concentrate on. Eventually DOS (at
> least FreeDOS) is going to need to learn how to "get along with" GPT,
> though. Newer OS's (like Windows 11) require GPT and won't even boot from
> MBR any more (they claim MBR isn't "secure"). Unless everyone is going to
> be 100% satisfied running DOS in Virtual Machines instead of bare metal (I
> won't), we'll need to do something different.

100% agree. However, even if DOS is patched to support GPT, the raw partition limit will still be 2048 GiB, correct? No way around that limit, even with 4k sector-support, is there? And, further, the filesize limit shall always remain at 4096 MiB (or even 2048 MiB)?

Complete thread:

• Ranish Partition Manager revived - boeckmann, 11.11.2022, 15:11 (Announce)
  • Ranish Partition Manager revived - glennmcc, 11.11.2022, 18:40
    • Ranish Partition Manager revived - boeckmann, 11.11.2022, 21:53
  • Ranish Partition Manager revived - bretjohn, 11.11.2022, 19:42
    • Ranish Partition Manager revived - boeckmann, 11.11.2022, 22:04
      • Ranish Partition Manager revived - bretjohn, 14.11.2022, 15:12
        • Ranish Partition Manager revived - Zyzzle, 17.11.2022, 03:20
          • Ranish Partition Manager revived - boeckmann, 17.11.2022, 11:42
            • Ranish Partition Manager revived - tom, 17.11.2022, 16:22
            • Ranish Partition Manager revived - Zyzzle, 18.11.2022, 01:12
              • Ranish Partition Manager revived - boeckmann, 19.11.2022, 21:03
                • Ranish Partition Manager revived - ecm, 19.11.2022, 21:16
                  • Ranish Partition Manager revived - boeckmann, 19.11.2022, 21:46
                    • Ranish Partition Manager revived - bretjohn, 21.11.2022, 01:59
                      • Ranish Partition Manager revived - boeckmann, 23.11.2022, 15:38
                        • Ranish Partition Manager revived - boeckmann, 26.11.2022, 17:36
                          • Ranish Partition Manager revived - Zyzzle, 29.11.2022, 06:06
                            • Ranish Partition Manager revived - boeckmann, 29.11.2022, 09:33
                              • Ranish Partition Manager revived - Zyzzle, 29.11.2022, 09:35
                                • Ranish Partition Manager revived - boeckmann, 29.11.2022, 11:02
                                  • Ranish Partition Manager revived - fritz.mueller, 09.01.2023, 20:09
                                    • Ranish Partition Manager revived - boeckmann, 13.01.2023, 16:41
                                      • Ranish Partition Manager revived - fritz.mueller, 14.01.2023, 11:41
                                        • Ranish Partition Manager revived - boeckmann, 14.01.2023, 12:48
                                        • Ranish Partition Manager revived - boeckmann, 14.01.2023, 13:06
                                      • Ranish Partition Manager revived - boeckmann, 14.01.2023, 11:47
                                        • Ranish Partition Manager revived - boeckmann, 14.01.2023, 13:22
                                          • Ranish Partition Manager revived - rr, 14.01.2023, 14:56
                                            • Ranish Partition Manager revived - fritz.mueller, 14.01.2023, 15:25
                                              • Ranish Partition Manager revived - boeckmann, 14.01.2023, 22:26
                                                • Ranish Partition Manager revived - ecm, 15.01.2023, 12:50
                                                  • Ranish Partition Manager revived - fritz.mueller, 15.01.2023, 15:32
                                                    • Ranish Partition Manager revived - boeckmann, 15.01.2023, 16:14
                                                      • Ranish Partition Manager revived - fritz.mueller, 15.01.2023, 16:49
                                                        • Ranish Partition Manager revived - boeckmann, 15.01.2023, 18:37
                                                  • Ranish Partition Manager revived - boeckmann, 15.01.2023, 18:49
                                                    • Ranish Partition Manager revived - fritz.mueller, 15.01.2023, 20:40
                                                      • Ranish Partition Manager revived - boeckmann, 16.01.2023, 13:44
                                                        • Ranish Partition Manager revived - fritz.mueller, 17.01.2023, 22:44
                                                          • Ranish Partition Manager revived - boeckmann, 17.01.2023, 23:11
                                                          • Ranish Partition Manager revived - boeckmann, 17.01.2023, 23:14
                                                            • Ranish Partition Manager revived - fritz.mueller, 18.01.2023, 12:50
                                                              • Ranish Partition Manager revived - boeckmann, 18.01.2023, 14:05
                                                                • Ranish Partition Manager revived - fritz.mueller, 18.01.2023, 14:48
                                                                  • Ranish Partition Manager revived - boeckmann, 18.01.2023, 21:15
                                                                    • Ranish Partition Manager revived - Japheth, 19.01.2023, 16:39
  • Ranish Partition Manager revived - rr, 12.11.2022, 11:10
    • Ranish Partition Manager revived - boeckmann, 12.11.2022, 12:09
      • Ranish Partition Manager revived - rr, 12.11.2022, 21:08
  • Ranish Partition Manager revived - roytam, 16.11.2022, 16:39
    • Ranish Partition Manager revived - boeckmann, 17.11.2022, 12:04
  • Ranish Partition Manager revived - usotsuki, 27.11.2022, 10:00