In this menu you have to choose a disk partition that contains an operating
system you want to add. Position the highlight bar on the chosen partition
and press the "Add" button. The configurator will search for
an operating system in this partition and will add it upon finding.
The partition list holds the following information about each partition:
The number of the hard disk that hosts the partition.
A text string that is found in the boot record. Usually it is set by
the operating system during the installation process. For example "MSDOS5.0"
corresponds to MS-DOS, "MSWIN4.1" - Windows95, "PTSDOS60"
- PTS-DOS.
The partition has to have a certain sequence of bytes at the end of
the boot record in order to be bootable. If the configurator does not find
this sequence, it considers the partition as non-bootable, i.e. booting
can not be done from this partition.
Partitions can be of two types - primary partition and extended ones.
There can not be more than four primary partitions. If there are extended
partitions on the hard disk, than there can not be more than three primary
partitions.
Partition size in Mbytes.
This field shows which file system is used in this partition.
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