On 11/6/2018 6:49 AM, Raymond Bathurst wrote:
Using a bootable USB stick 'USBANY' with miscellaneous FreeDOS 1.1
working files on it and following Tom's short notes I made the fixed
disk bootable. "Fine". But the nasty sting in my question was how does
one install *FreeDOS 1.12 *on a virgin fixed disk ? The venerable
FreeDOS has advanced to version 1.12 without a straightforward method
of installing it directly on a new computer. How idiot am I? Well I
have crossed hundreds of battlefields since starting with CP/M and
PDP-8. Thanks for the help.
Well,...
Some folks think that everything has to be installed like Linux, with
huge packages, downloaded over the Internet.
DOS on the other hand is MUCH simpler. There isn't much of DOS itself to
"install". If you have already a partitioned and formatted drive, all
you have to do is to copy a couple of files to "install"/"upgrade" to a
newer version.
There usually isn't any changes in the boot sector, which gets
transferred with the SYS command from Tom's instructions, all that is
needed to do is to manually copy and overwrite the kernel.sys and
command.com files. Adjust autoexec.bat and fdconfig.sys as needed.
That's all that is to, beside overwriting any newer files in the FDOS
directory. Or any other directory that contains files you're interested
in. In that regard, it's all just like CP/M, where the whole operating
system (beside additional external command line commands/utilities) is
just consisting of BIOS and BDOS...
Ralf
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