[CLUE-Tech] swap and FreeDOS

[Angelo Bertolli]

The new swap partition was easy enough--but I haven't checked for bad 
blocks.  Is there an advantage to using a partition over a file?  If 
not, I don't see why using a partition is the default for Linux.  A file 
sounds like it makes more sense.

Anyway, I created a 1G partition to hold DOS... but MS-DOS wouldn't 
install.  Is this because I have a 20G hard drive and I'm trying to put 
it at around the 13th G?  I couldn't get it to install at all.  So I 
installed FreeDOS instead even though that wasn't what I wanted.  But I 
can't get GRUB to boot FreeDOS.  I looked at the documentation, and I 
tried a bunch of things... and let me tell you "hiding" partitions is a 
bad idea.  I hid my Linux partition and it turned it into an Amoeba 
partition, which forced me to have to use the CD to rescue.  Right now I 
still can't boot FreeDOS, and I'm still trying to figure out how to 
install MS-DOS.  I was thinking maybe I could install MS-DOS to a 
ramdisk and dump it to a file, and then put it on the partition, but I'm 
not sure how I'd install it to a ramdisk.

Angelo