Hi! >> I have used fdisk to partition my drive at like a 100mb
> A full install probably needs much more than that... http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/freedos/index.php?title=Install#Known_problems tells about this: > XHARBOUR (a free CLIPPER clone, 8 MB) needs the OWATCOM > package: That package needs at least 30 MB disk space. > Other large packages are FPASCAL (free Pascal, 31 MB), > KRAPTOR (11 MB), Image MAGICK (8 MB), free DOOM (21 MB), > and VIM (consists of several packages, ca 20 MB). Without > those packages, installing all other (more than 200) packages > of the FULLCD needs less than 100 MB disk space. > For sure you can manually install a much smaller amount, but > I'm not sure how customizable the "old" installer is. In the old installer, you can select all packages for all categories manually, but of course if you want to do that, you have to toggle lots of checkboxes. Default is as far as I remember to install whole categories. > (Jim Hall's already been rewriting it lately.) The new installer is less interactive, I think. People have 100s of MB free on every USB stick or SD card... However, you are of course welcome to do a BASE install and then use FDPKG to install a few selected non-BASE packages manually later. Actually you can install most of the packages simply by unzipping them with any unzip tool into your dos directory (e.g. C:\FDOS or FREEDOS) and you can download and copy them in any way you like. >> Another error I have come across is if I try to format the >> drive it fails saying something like drive sectors >> not 1, 4 , 6, 16, 32 etc but 0.0 kb >> I don't know the exact error it returns with result 4. >> And I don't know if these are related Looking in the FreeDOS FORMAT source code, you may mean: > FATAL: Cluster size not 0.5, 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32 or 64k but... When you use FORMAT /D (debug mode) it will return error 59 which is more fine-grained than error 4, and show more info. It is possible that you needed to reboot after fdisk and before formatting. Another typical problem could be that your drive is not a real sector based drive at all. Yet at least in DOSEMU, FORMAT would notice that on time and show a more useful error message than just about clusters. If you try to FORMAT in a non-DOS operating system and the target drive is not FAT but e.g. NTFS, similar confusion could occur. If you can already access a drive, you should not format it again anyway. In particular, if your DOS FAT drive will be on a multi boot system, you can let existing other operating systems format the drive to FAT in a safer way and then just let DOS install to that prepared drive. You should have a look at the FORMAT /D output if you want to try using FORMAT again and want to find out what failed. Then you can also report more details about the problem. Good luck! Eric :-) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Protect Your Site and Customers from Malware Attacks Learn about various malware tactics and how to avoid them. Understand malware threats, the impact they can have on your business, and how you can protect your company and customers by using code signing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
