On 11/4/2017 4:58 AM, userbeit...@abwesend.de wrote: > > I too have a couple of old 486 systems and recently also two 286 > laptops (yeah!) but I wasn't yet able to install FreeDOS on them. The > first reason being that my first project, a desktop 486, doesn't have > a CD-ROM drive and, natually, no USB either. The only way to get > FreeDOS on the HDD was to place it into a different system (a P4) and > install it there. The bad news: this very HDD was too small for > FreeDOS. So at that point I did give up, mostly due to my real life > job which doesn't give me enough spare time to continue the project, > at least for now. Harddrive too small for FreeDOS? Sorry, but the smallest hard drive I ever owned and used in DOS was 20MB and that is enough to install FreeDOS 10 time over... You can run FreeDOS off a 1.2/1.44MB floppy disk drive!
Sorry but that story doesn't hold up . And it doesn't have anything to do with the subject of this unfortunate thread... Ralf --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
