JohnT

Daniel, are you building with a makefile or with the commandline? Here's the compilation from my build with makefile, BWBasic 3.20 and I think gcc 10.2.1. gcc -c -I. -DPACKAGE_NAME=\"\" -DPACKAGE_TARNAME=\"\" -DPACKAGE_VERSION=\"\" -DPACKAGE_STRING=\"\" -DPACKAGE_BUGREPORT=\"\" -DPACKAGE_URL=\"\" -DSTDC_HEADERS=1 -DHAVE_SYS_TYPES_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_STAT_H=1 -DHAVE_STDLIB_H=1 -DHAVE_STRING_H=1 -DHAVE_MEMORY_H=1 -DHAVE_STRINGS_H=1 -DHAVE_INTTYPES_H=1 -DHAVE_STDINT_H=1 -DHAVE_UNISTD_H=1 -DHAVE_STRING=1...

Daniel, are you building with a makefile or with the commandline? Here's the compilation from my build with makefile, BWBasic 3.20 and I think gcc 10.2.1. gcc -c -I. -DPACKAGE_NAME=\"\" -DPACKAGE_TARNAME=\"\" -DPACKAGE_VERSION=\"\" -DPACKAGE_STRING=\"\" -DPACKAGE_BUGREPORT=\"\" -DPACKAGE_URL=\"\" -DSTDC_HEADERS=1 -DHAVE_SYS_TYPES_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_STAT_H=1 -DHAVE_STDLIB_H=1 -DHAVE_STRING_H=1 -DHAVE_MEMORY_H=1 -DHAVE_STRINGS_H=1 -DHAVE_INTTYPES_H=1 -DHAVE_STDINT_H=1 -DHAVE_UNISTD_H=1 -DHAVE_STRING=1...

Thank you, Shidel, but creating partitions is NOT the problem. I would like to install on a disk that already has maybe 4 DOS partitions and probably 5 Linux partitions, plus whatever USB sticks happen to be plugged in at the moment. So when seeing 12-16 partitions, FreeDOS looks at the mess and tells me it can't install. The number of existing partitions shouldn't even be a factor in installing, only the factor that you specify the partition and it meets FreeDOS's boot requirements in addition to...

Thank you, Shidel, but creating partitions is NOT the problem. I would like to install on a disk that already has maybe 4 DOS partitions and probably 5 Linux partitions, plus whatever USB sticks happen to be plugged in at the moment. So when seeing 12-16 partitions, FreeDOS looks at the mess and tells me it can't install. The number of existing partitions shouldn't even be a factor in installing, only the factor that you specify the partition and it meets FreeDOS's boot requirements in addition to...

Can't install, too many partitions

Hi, Ted! There may be an uptick in interest in historic languages as well as historic hardware, and I for one enjoy the simplicity of typing in a little programming idea, trying it and debugging in a Basic interpreter and maybe compiling it. Basic on a Commodore was great fun (and quiet in the small morning hours when I got home from work), and I'm very glad to be able to use several flavors of Basic on my Linux system now. I also have built a few Algols and wouldn't mind getting my hands on a PL/1...

My system is currently set to have three DOS partitions and several Linux partitions,...