Bernd - Thanks for that. Exiting from the installer and running postinst.bat before the restart, and then restarting, has the install working. A bunch of 'localization failed' errors, but it doesn't seem crucial.
Blair - thanks for all the help as well. And having swapped more floppy disks in the last day than I have in the preceding decade or so, I can understand your reluctance to get back to it. -m -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bernd Blaauw Sent: Friday, August 26, 2005 12:55 PM To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Installation Difficulties Matthew Fisher schreef: > Still stymied, but I don't actually think it's a hardware question. > After the install completes, on reboot it's not actually finding > anything to start up: everything is still in the C:\temp directory, > and the post-install scripts aren't running. if I recall correctly, FreeDOS attempts to locate the directory where SETUP installed files to. So far, only drive C: supported. If that fails, it means installer didn't complete installing packages and then FreeDOS tries to install a core bootable system: kernel (c:\kernel.sys), shell (at c:\temp) and bootsector. Only alternative is to switch to the freedos installation directory manually and execute postinst.bat there. > Is there a step I'm missing in installing from floppies here? Or a way > to force the next step after a clean install and rebooting with the > install floppy instead of the non-booting hdd? as above. Boot from diskette, press F5 and pray everything goes OK :) I'm used to a bit defensive programming, so postinst.bat shouldn't depend too much on earlier executed files. I hope you're able to finish installation. I'm not fond of testing the diskette installation procedure, as disk swapping in a virtual machine is kind of problematic. New harddrive + a set of diskettes should do wonders for me. > Thanks.... Bernd ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
