Hi there, I was going to install FreeDOS 1.1 on a USB drive within qemu 1.1.1 on Opensuse 12.2 32 bit. After selecting the language in the FreeDOS installer, my notebook was busy during the next hour with thousands of thousands of messages like "Run chkdsk: Bad FAT I/O: 0x...". Here is exactly what I did: - plugged in a USB drive - erased all partition data with "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=1M count=16" - created a new FAT16 partition with fdisk (1 GB, partition label 6), set this to active - created the filesystem with "mkfs -t vfat -n FreeDOS /dev/sdb1"
After that, I started qemu with "qemu-system-i386 -hda /dev/sdb -cdrom fd11src.iso -boot d". The FreeDOS installer started, I begun the installation with "1". It let me choose my language, and after this the enormous amount of error messages. About an hour later, the installer finally asked me where to install - I chose C: (the installer showed me mysteriously only 255 MB). Then it asked me if I want to format the drive with FAT32 - which I accepted. However, now it showed me the following error message: Invalid Drive! Aborting. [Error 61] FORMAT status: 4 Could not format your hard disk So what is wrong here? André ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_nov _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
