Re: ForthOS installation problem

From: Andy Valencia <vandys_at_nospam.org>
Date: Sun Feb 20 2005 - 11:18:49 PST

Antonio Maschio <tbin@libero.it> wrote:
> 1) partition may be part of an extended one or must be primary?

It has to be one of the 4 primary ones.

> 2) in any case, does ForthOS prevent from writing beyond the partition
> limit? Excuse me for such a question, I know really nothing about how to
> implement and write an OS and its interaction with partitions, so this may
> sound silly.

It doesn't enforce such a limit. If you follow the installation instructions
you'll have a filesystem in there, which somewhat contains where you go
writing. Proceed with caution. :->

Andy Valencia
Received on 20 Feb 2005 19:18:49 GMT

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