Hello,
>the machine running hot
Maybe try running FDAPM to reduce CPU usage once you're in the shell? I
remember installing FreeDOS on a Toshiba A660 with an i7 onboard, but I
don't recall that kind of issue.
>is this normal behavior for installing FD to an SSD?
No. FreeDOS can be installed on flash memory no problem. I'm using it on
a CF card and it's doing good.
>general errors with FAT
From my experience if you choose FAT32 filesystem for the job, you need
to make sure it exists on a disk with a MBR partition table, and the
designated partition must have a type equal to 0x0C. FreeDOS installer
usually makes sure that these conditions are met before installation
although I would not trust it to align the first partition to start at
the 1st MiB for best mileage. That's why I leave the partitioning and
formatting to fdisk and mkfs.vfat on Linux. GPT partition table will
also work, as long as you make a hybrid MBR table and provide a BIOS
boot partition.
If all of this is not an issue, maybe the drive itself is in bad
condition? Have you checked SMART metrics?
Best regards,
Michał
W dniu 4.10.2023 o 20:57, ashembers via Freedos-user pisze:
Hello,
I have been trying to install 1.3 on an iMac 2011, which seems dumb on
the face of it, but I noticed that it has Intel-based sound that looks
to be SBEM compatible, so I figured that it would actually be a good
use of aging hardware. There were 2 problems doing this: I saw that
the cooling fans were running high & the unit was indeed hot -
regardless of whether I was trying to install or just running FD off
disc. Also, when I installed, it seemed slow but I read that sometimes
it can take a while so I left it run all night. It ran into errors
like these:
Run chkdsk: Bad FAT index: #x########
Run chkdsk: Bad FAT value: #x########
Run chkdsk: Bad FAT index: #x########
Run chkdsk: Bad FAT value: #x########
Fatal error: error code #101, unspecified error with "gzip.exe"
I attempted formatting the drive first (running FD as a Live CD) with
a full format, but that made no difference.
My questions are: is the iMac architecture that lame in this context,
or is this normal behavior for installing FD to an SSD? I had not
tried installing to a platter drive yet.
Thanks for your thoughts,
Dan
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