Hi All, While preparing to upgrade my Netbook from from 1.3 to 1.4rc3+ (slightly newer OS build than RC3, possibly to be 1.4GM released on 4/1), I ran into a couple issues.
The intent for this machine was keep all of its customizations. Me being well aware of all of the differences between 1.3 & 1.4, I was going to do the upgrade by hand without using the FreeDOS installer. Simply, update FreeCOM and all relevant packages. This machine has a network card that works under DOS when the proper drivers are loaded. So, the process should have been fairly easy. But nothing is ever easy. :-) Simply using "FDNPKG update” sometimes works. Sometimes it complains about an existing file. When that happens, often just preforming a “remove” and “install” works fine. (This is why the installer does not update existing packages. If FreeDOS is already installed, it removes all packages it is going to install. Then, it installs the new versions.) So, some packages updated. Then I was going through removing then reinstalling the handful that did not want to install. When I went to re-install HTMLHELP, the system locked up for some reason. Reboot… Insert system disk. Oh well, no big deal. The internal SSD on the machine is just a copy of a SD Card I have for testing. It can be used to boot FreeDOS on 3 different machines with the appropriate drivers for Networking, Sound, etc. So, I did a couple HD wipes and test installs of 1.4 using a USB Stick for fun. All looked good. (Interesting thing about this machine. It can boot from SD while having a USB attached. C: SD-CARD, D: USB Drive, E+ internal SSD. Also boots from USB Floppy.) Back to work... I pop in the Universal SD, boot and recreate the partitions and format them. I do a SYS transfer to the HD. No problem. Now time to copy the contents of the Universal SC-CARD to the boot drive. There a lot of files and non-FreeDOS programs on it. xcopy /h /e /n /r /y c:\ d:\ It ran for a little while. Happily coping files. But, eventually “Stack Overflow” and xcopy terminates without crashing the system. Tried again. And again. Wiped it and retried. No luck. I think it was crashing at the same point each time. Finally, I used xcopy to only copy a couple directories at a time and successfully loaded everything onto the drive. I then used FreeDOS’s zip to backup the whole drive to a separate partition. Then updated all of the packages. I am unsure why xcopy kept having a “stack overflow” error. On another machine, I use it to backup the HD (and the same SD-CARD) to a separate partition frequently using xcopy and have not previously encountered the problem. Very Strange. ^O^ Jerome _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
