jhallen@wpi.wpi.edu (Joseph H Allen) (02/21/90)
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I'm making an MS-DOS clone and I need to understand exactly how the
partitioning works. I know that: the first sector of the harddrive is a boot
program which loads in the boot sector of the active partition. This sector
supports 4 partitions. So that a disk can have many partitions, the "extended
dos" partition has a partitioning system of its own. The question: How does
the real boot sector (the one on the active partition) know the parameters for
it's partition? And, in the extended partition, how does MS-DOS know the
parameters for each sub-partition? One book I looked in didn't say. Another
book said that a copy of the partition entry for that partition resides in
each partition's boot sector. This sounds reasonable- except that it's not
true. None of the boot sectors on any partition seem to have a partition
entry.
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In article <8762@wpi.wpi.edu> jhallen@wpi.wpi.edu (Joseph H Allen) writes:
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I'm making an MS-DOS clone and I need to understand exactly how the
partitioning works. ...
Is anyone else interested in a moderated comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer?
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Violence never solves problems, it just changes them into more subtle problemsjhallen@wpi.wpi.edu (Joseph H Allen) (02/21/90)
In article <8762@wpi.wpi.edu> jhallen@wpi.wpi.edu (Joseph H Allen) writes: > >This newsgroup appeared just in time! > >I'm making an MS-DOS clone and I need to understand exactly how the >partitioning works. [partition questions] Never mind. I figured this out. If anyone wants me to I'll post all about it. Instead, I have this question: How exactly does the network interface work on MS-DOS? I notice some calls about set-up tables, but how exactly do you install a network disk driver? -- "Come on Duke, lets do those crimes" - Debbie "Yeah... Yeah, lets go get sushi... and not pay" - Duke