Hi Eric, thanks for the in-depth responses! Drive letters:
> On Sun,20210418- week15, at 18:27, Eric Auer <e.a...@jpberlin.de> wrote: > > There are two problems: 1. where the installer expects the packages > in terms of drive letters Yes, this was the problem. However, I don’t know anything technical about all this, but I remember: A: B: used to be floppy drives (I have none inbuilt in my itx, and haven't seen inbuilt floppy drives for a while...) C: to me is known as the main drive (windows...!) D: showed as another USB stick (if present) When I booted from the USB-CDrom drive (with the freedos image on it), it has no letter assigned (right? - I think FreeDOS even prints it) —> couldn’t a letter be assigned by the »system« itself or (better?): why would it need a letter at all (?excuse my illiteracy on all of this, just guessing wildly), can’t the installer reference to its »own location« and find the packages which are all just next to the installer on the same disc? And … if the installer tells me bluntly »packages not found« - this doesn’t help me as a user at all. Instead, if that instruction message would say: »Go back to DOS and type »fdisk«" (or whatever command it needs, like a very short how-to-do instruction,) - or BETTER give a hint to a helpful »readme.txt« on the installer CDrom what to do if something goes wrong with the drive letters and it can’t find the packages, next in order to install FreeDOS … I could have helped myself out of it. I could even take a photo from the screen instructions with my Smartphone and follow the steps if they are to long to memorize, or copy on paper the commands. Better than nothing! (Excuses for my naivité!) This is what I ment by saying »for the initiated« : once you KNOW, it seems hard to understand how another person can't do it… (I just rewatched Jim Halls video https://youtu.be/On5eZdDGsCo on this, which gives a good intro, but only if the packages are found… :D - also the resizing of the partition to 240MB isn’t a widespread knowledge...) I don’t cosider formatting and partitioning a hd a trivial thing to do, especially given the presence of another OS. (And if there is a »dual boot« , i.e. I could choose to re-activate the other OS.) – By the way, on my ITX was a Windows 7 professionel installed which I finally (willfully?) erased installing FreeDOS from the USB image. That is ok so far, unless I don’t want the Win7 back Thank you for the instructions, Eric, to have a better USB approach. Bret Johnson responded helpfully how USB on DOS could work, too. - Regards, Thomas _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
