Op 9-11-2012 16:47, André Bachmann schreef: > 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...".
I've seen this as well, usually with a drive C: (primary active FAT32 partition) that didn't have a filesystem on it yet (done by FORMAT) Some installation tools check drive C: to see if it's present. > 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" You could try providing this USB Flash Device to QEMU without first assigning a partition and filesystem. FreeDOS is able to do it by itself using the FDISK program to create a partition, and FORMAT program (after rebooting QEMU once FDISK has finished). FORMAT C: /Q should do the trick. Afterwards run SYS C: > 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 Not seen this error before, sorry. Is your USB stick more emulator-friendly if performing the partitioning with Gparted or something? Standard reference procedure should be something like detailed in: http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/freedos/index.php?title=VirtualBox Bernd ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
