I don’t have something to tell you about the problem, unfortunatly. But I have
something what might is an idea, but you all know that better then me.
Maybe we can provide an ‘upgrade’-installer and a System-installer. The upgrade
installer you just run from DOS os’s. If we can, we put both installers in that
setup image. But when the user chooses upgrade [1] you copy the upgrade/update
installer to the drive and you reboot the system, let them run that installer.
This solves the problem of drive letters, and is simpler to run. You don’t need
to run the setup installer, because this asks you things you don’t need when
upgrading your old FreeDOS and/or MS-DOS, PC-DOS etc.
The system-installer would just be the FDI we all know. :)
[1] probably you need to prompt “This will upgrade you from any DOS OS. Setup
will copy the installer to your disk. To run type: ‘Upgrade’.”
Maarten
Working on:
Bird OS 2017 1.0.0a (Western Schreech-Owl)
Van: Jerome E. Shidel Jr.
Verzonden: dinsdag 23 februari 2016 19:19
Aan: Technical discussion and questions for FreeDOS developers.
Onderwerp: Re: [Freedos-devel] FDI remaining issue
I have a report of another issue regarding the USB stick installer.
Basically, the user has 2 drives. one MS-DOS and one Other DOS formatted.
The user boots the USB stick and all seems well through the install process.
Reboots, and is faced with MS-DOS again. FreeDOS installed to D:.
After, a little back and forth, it turns out that when he boots the USB stick
the USB stick is Drive C: and the other DOS drive is D:. The original
MS-DOS C: drive is nowhere to be found.
So, the installer behaves correctly. But, FreeDOS is not the boot drive.
This appears to be completely BIOS related and I don’t think there is
anything the installer can do about it.
The solution was to to just boot MS-DOS and switch over to whatever
drive letter the USB stick now has and run setup.bat. This method was
not optimal, but worked fine.
Like I said, I don’t think there is anything the installer can do about it.
But, it is something to be remembered.
Thanks, Jerome
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