On 2016-12-30 23:31, Jose Antonio Senna wrote: > Some (maybe silly) remarks: > > -Is the HD blank or do you already have some O/S working > in that PC ?
It is still blank. > -If you have say, MSDOS, on the PC do you want to keep it > and make a dual-boot PC ? I will eventually install DR DOS on a second partition. I hope I will be able to get a bootloader running that allows a selection. GRUB4DOS maybe? > - DOS has been designed to boot from removable media, so > it does not save HW info in the kernel. Yes, but doesn't a good installer configure something like XMS memory and HIMEM.SYS and CD-ROM ATAPI.SYS and stuff like that? This will go into the CONFIG.SYS and some stuff into AUTOEXEC.BAT, but this will all be wrong on another PC, wouldn't it? > Just write bare minimum CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files > and edit them to install specific drivers and TSRs after > the HD is on the target PC. Yes, that is the though: I will partition 1) DR DOS, 2) FreeDOS and 3) data+programs. Then I will install a bre minimum on the FreeDOS partition, so it will be able to boot on the 486-PC. I will copy the installation stuff from the USB image 1:1 to the third partition. I should then be able to start the installer on the 486-PC from that partition. Thank you very much, userbeitrag. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
