Re: [Freedos-user] Can FreeDOS install and run on Fat32?

[Stu <stu...@gm...>]

Try FN and Escape, on some laptops that toggled FN lock which toggled
between F keys and their other functions

No idea if that will work on FreeDOS as I don't know what level that
happens on.

On Sat, 21 Mar 2026, 17:53 Ray Davison via Freedos-user, <
fre...@li...> wrote:

> My question is the stated subject of this thread.  I now have the simple
> answer, which is yes.  That is bit incomplete because I have not yet
> made use of *EMM*.EXE.  This is a collection of what I call high memory
> controllers - there may be a better name.
>
> If FreeDOS exists for some as a way to keep old hardware running, to
> maybe do some newer things, then what I am doing is probably irrelevant.
>   But if there is someone who wants to run on modern hardware, yes it
> does work.
>
> My intent is to build a modern laptop, that test installs various Linux,
> and possibly has one or more Win partitions.  Boot must be controlled by
> a boot manager that is not influenced by any of those OSs.
>
> FreeDOS 1.4 is running on the preinstalled, 1Tb HDD.  The HDD shipped as
> GPT, was stripped, and is now MBR.  There is currently a single FAT32,
> 20GB partition.
>
> The file manager is Norton Commander 1993.  It works so well it
> perfectly aligned to the screen, and established that the function key
> primary flip from F1-F12 to the symbols, is not a new computer,
> hardwired change, but a new Windows change. - how to get Win to let go?
>
> The boot manager is Acronis OSS V5.  It is functioning in that it grabs
> the boot process.  It currently has nothing to boot because I cannot
> find the install disk, tried to clone it from another box, and it does
> not know FreeDOS exists.  On other boxes it is booting FreeDOS, two
> OS/2, WinXP, and Win7.
>
> So now, get OSS properly installed, and start adding boot partitions
> which will all be extended.
>
> Any help with EMM would be appreciated.
>
> TY
> Ray
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