[ale] HDD stuff

[hirsch at mathcs.emory.edu]

> Ok, this may sound somewhat rudimentary (and slightly off-topic), but
> here goes:
> 
> 
> For some reason, over the past few days I've been playing with DOSEMU at
> home.  No real reason -- it was mainly a side-effect of boredom. 
> However, the default 8MB hdimage they supply just isn't big enough for
> all my single-user, single-tasking, real-mode needs.  What would be the
> easiest way to add a small DOS partition to my HDD (about 48MB or so)
> which is already packed end-to-end with Linux partitions?  (or, some way
> to easily increase the size of the hdimage.freedos file)  If it's too
> much trouble, I dont want to bother.  This is just out of curiosity...

Why not create a new HDimage that is big enough and copy all the files?

Or even better, the only thing you need on the HDimage is the DOS boot stuff. 
Once DOS is up and running use lredir to mount your unix filesystem.

--Michael