[syslinux] Memdisk and big floppy images

d tbsky tbskyd at gmail.com
Fri Jul 6 01:49:02 PDT 2018


2018-07-06 16:33 GMT+08:00 d tbsky <tbskyd at gmail.com>:
>      I haven't test freedos recent years. but with ms-dos which comes
> with win98, the maximum size is 256MB. I had tried to test that
> several years ago. we use 256MB floppy with memdisk for our daily bios
> update work.
>
> Regards,
> tbskyd


   just found the testing note I took several years ago. just FYI if
someone is interested:

freedos(old version, not newest version): can not boot fat16 floppy,
so maximum size is 32mb with fat12

win98-msdos: fat12: 32MB, fat16:128MB, fat32: 256MB

Regards,
tbskyd


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