Hello, I could barely understand any of the installation directions for FreeDOS because they were muddled up with information that does not pertain to me, as I already have a primary FAT partition just waiting and ready to receive it, so I just went ahead and ran the install off the bootable CD hoping that it would be clear enough for me to follow. Boy, I was wrong.
My system is setup like this: [Main drive] [Primary Partition: NTFS (WinXP)] <- Windows calls this C: [Secondary Paritition: FAT32 (Recovery] <- Windows calls this D:, FreeDOS calls it C: [Slave Drive] [Primary Partition: FAT] <- Windows calls this F:, FreeDOS calls it D: I wanted FreeDOS to leave my Recovery Partition alone and to install itself on my D: drive. Instead, without any instruction from me, it has modified my recovery partition, possibly rendering it permanently useless, and it installed the packages to D: -- the C: drive isn't even bootable! If I try booting that disk, it boots XP because XP is in the primary partition, naturally. I tried to make D: bootable by using the sys command, but when I boot the disk now, I see some kind of unintelligible menu about an IO error that stays on the screen for approximately one second before being flooded away by about 1000 pages worth of identical Invalid Opcode errors. Once these stop, pressing anything or attempting to reboot the system causes an additional few hundred pages worth of semi-random ASCII to fly by and then the system hard locks while blaring a high-pitched tone on the PC speaker. I'm sure FreeDOS is great to use, but only if you can actually install it. What have I done wrong, how can I fix it, and for God's sake, can somebody please just explain the process of how to get FreeDOS onto a particular disk without discussing things I *don't* need to do like FDISK or formatting? If it isn't possible to use FreeDOS the way I want to (bootable from what it thinks is my D: drive), I would also appreciate that being stated in plain English. I'm a smart guy with a CS degree, but this stuff is still opaque to me. Thanks, James Haley _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
