Thanks guys! Sorry for the late response, and Eric I will consider the
xharbour, thank you!
For now though, if anyone can enlighten me further......
I've decided to follow the steps here:
http://bitcheese.net/freedos%2Finstall
The author shows us the "pioneer way" and the "optimal way." I'm going for
the optimal way, but instead of using unetbootin like he suggests, I chose
to burn my downloaded "fdbasecd.iso" to a dvd+rw.
I think the dvd boots ok. There was a prompt like:
:boot
or something like that in which I can type something. Is this the part
where I type "sys d:" (without quotation marks) ?
And do I really type d: ? How do I know if my fat32 partition is d: ?
Then he goes on to say:
-----------------------
Edit /boot/grub/menu.lst
Add the following:
title FreeDOS
rootnoverify (hd1,2)
chainloader +1
makeactive
Where (hd1,2) is your FAT32 partition.
--------------------------------------------------
but there is no /boot/grub/menu.lst anymore in GRUB 2, it is replaced by
*/boot/grub/grub.cfg , *
which warns users NOT TO EDIT,
"It is automatically generated by grub-mkconfig using templates
from /etc/grub.d and settings from /etc/default/grub"
So I'm guessing I should add the 4 lines above, as suggested by the author,
to /etc/default/grub , am I correct?
What about (hd1,2)? Where do I see my own version of that? I intend to
install freedos in /dev/sda2, if that helps...
What about chainloader +1 ? Do I copy as is?
That's it for now.
Thank you so much!!!
On Sun, Sep 6, 2015 at 8:30 AM, Rugxulo [via FreeDOS] <
ml-node+s10956n23192...@n7.nabble.com> wrote:
> Hi again,
>
> On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 5:16 AM, Eric Auer <[hidden email]
> <http:///user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=23192&i=0>> wrote:
>
> >
> >> 2. I can run an old Clipper program but the program has to be in the
> same
> >> drive/partition as FreeDOS; I cannot access other drive/partition when
> I'm
> >> in FreeDOS. Is this normal?
> >
> > This might be not normal. DOS only supports FAT partitions,
> > so if your other partitions are NTFS or Linux, it is normal
> > that DOS can not access them without additional drivers.
> >
> >> 3. When I'm using the Clipper program, I can print just fine. But I
> cannot
> >> enter data. I get the DOS ERROR 4, something like that. When running
> the
> >> Clipper program in command prompt in Windows 7 and I get the DOS ERROR
> 4,
> >> all I have to do is edit the autoexec.nt and config.nt in
> windows\system32.
> >> What would be the equivalent of that in FreeDOS?
>
> Windows 7 and FreeDOS do not cooperate at all. So editing anything in
> %windir%\system32 (like autoexec.nt or config.nt) don't affect real
> DOS at all, only Microsoft's NTVDM.
>
> > I do not know what error 4 is and you have not explained in
> > which way you edit the *.nt files. What do you add, remove
> > or change in those files? You can do the same in DOS, but I
> > think you do not have any config yet - see question 1. Note
> > that the drive which is "F:" while you installed DOS, if I
> > understand your mail correctly, probably is drive "C:" when
> > you boot DOS. As you also seem to have Windows 7 on the same
> > computer, I guess that your Windows partitions are all NTFS.
>
> All Windows (since Vista, AFAIK) refuse to boot off of FAT partitions
> at all. They can still access (read/write) them later, but most
> installs don't have any (for security??). So NTFS usually hogs the
> entire physical disk. Thus, you've have to shrink/resize the NTFS to
> make room, then create a separate FAT. If you don't have a FAT
> partition, DOS won't boot at all. DOS can't read NTFS.
>
>
> http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tutorials/shrink-and-extend-ntfs-volumes-in-windows/
>
> But honestly, I think it would be easier (for now) to just use RUFUS
> (or similar) for bootable USB:
>
> http://rufus.akeo.ie/
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> _______________________________________________
> Freedos-user mailing list
> [hidden email] <http:///user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=23192&i=1>
> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
>
>
> ------------------------------
> If you reply to this email, your message will be added to the discussion
> below:
>
> http://freedos.10956.n7.nabble.com/Help-with-installing-FreeDOS-on-second-partition-tp23105p23192.html
> To unsubscribe from Help with installing FreeDOS on second partition, click
> here
> <http://freedos.10956.n7.nabble.com/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=unsubscribe_by_code&node=23105&code=Z3Vpa2F5ZUBnbWFpbC5jb218MjMxMDV8LTQ2MjQwNjk5NA==>
> .
> NAML
> <http://freedos.10956.n7.nabble.com/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=macro_viewer&id=instant_html%21nabble%3Aemail.naml&base=nabble.naml.namespaces.BasicNamespace-nabble.view.web.template.NabbleNamespace-nabble.view.web.template.NodeNamespace&breadcrumbs=notify_subscribers%21nabble%3Aemail.naml-instant_emails%21nabble%3Aemail.naml-send_instant_email%21nabble%3Aemail.naml>
>
--
View this message in context:
http://freedos.10956.n7.nabble.com/Help-with-installing-FreeDOS-on-second-partition-tp23105p23308.html
Sent from the FreeDOS - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
_______________________________________________
Freedos-user mailing list
Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
