Hi Chris, I have also had this problem several times. What I did was create a boot floppy with format, fdpkg and sys. Then sys the hard drive and copy all the packages into a temporary folder and install them with fdpkg. It took about 3 floppies to copy all the base packages
> It also has a PCMCIA slot in which I have a network card. The original > hard drive was 200 Mb but I put a 1 Gb drive in, running OnTrack Disk > Manager to overcome the BIOS restriction. Do you have a packet driver? You could just sys the hard drive and install wget http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.0/pkgs/wgetx.zip to download the packages from http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/ What BIOS do you have? I had an Epson 486 with Pheonixrom at one point and I was able to use 2 GB hard disks in FreeDOS. Are you sure it isn't a MS-DOS limitation? > I don't "need" FreeDOS on that machine, full install or otherwise. All > I wanted to do was take a look at FreeDOS to find out what it can do. You might want to partition the drive to preserve your current install. Take a look at fips http://www.igd.fhg.de/~aschaefe/fips/ to create a new partition to install to. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c2 _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
