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OP was saying (roughly) that the file attributes were used by, for example, DEFRAG.EXE to avoid having files like MSDOS.sys re-arranged ("defragmented") on disk
by mapgrep 11y ago
OP was saying (roughly) that the file attributes were used by, for example, DEFRAG.EXE to avoid having files like MSDOS.sys re-arranged ("defragmented") on disk because they need to be in certain locations the bootloader expects.
That's fully compatible with what you're saying. Yes, you need those flags to keep boot-up working properly and, yes, the bootloader ignores the flags.
- oso2k 11y agoThe files only need to be in certain logical locations (like the root of the drive), not physical locations. Fragmentation is not an issue either. See what FreeDOS say about this [0]. [0] http://help.fdos.org/en/hhstndrd/base/attrib.htm http://help.fdos.org/en/hhstndrd/base/attrib.htm