Hi Bjorn,
Thanks for the advice.
The primary point is that I do not understand way I am not able to boot
from the created media. As it does work to boot on those media if I put
a Linux distro on it.
So far as I understand it should work. That fact that it is FreeDOS or
Linux or FreeBSD should not make a difference.
I know it is possible to manually copy the files over on a created Fat
partition.
But the problem is that I do not get in to the setup process. And it
should work. At least I would think.
In any case;
I just have bought dedicated computer to use for FreeDOS.
A Toshiba Satellite Pro 430SDT. From 1996. It must have been a + $2000
computer in the day. Now I got it for €40 with diskette station, a wifi
and ethernet card. And a module to replace the original hard disk with
an SD-card.
Looks very nice for its age. Has a build in CD-rom player.
I will have an usb cd/dvd writer tomorrow. And have CD-r's. So I can
burn an install CD for it.
So now I have a computer form the native time of DOS. If that does not
work I do not know what will work.
Greetings,
Walter
Op 10/12/2022 om 10:57 schreef Björn Morell:
Sorry I miss read in my first reply.
You want to boot from SD, never tried that. I have FreeDos installed
on a partition on my nix machine (second generaiton i7) and can chose
it in the GRUB menu). Maybe install FreeDos on a partition made with
gparted on the SD with your linux distro ?
Den 2022-12-10 kl. 10:17, skrev Björn Morell:
Den 2022-12-09 kl. 22:17, skrev Walter Vermeir:
Hi,
I am trying install FreeDOS on my computer (not virtual) now for a
while and failing long enough to acknowledge that I need to ask for
help.
Last time I installed DOS I was using a 486 with a diskette drive.
My daily driver is Linux since the last 20 years.
I have been using two 32gb SD-cards. When I write the ISO of my
Linux distro to the SD-cards I can boot from those SD cards without
a problem.
When I write the FreeDOS ISO to the SD-cards or the FreeDOS USB
version , the IMG file, to the SD-cards it gives nothing. When I
select the device to boot from it just jumps back to the boot device
select menu of my BIOS. No error.
Have written the FreeDOS ISO to both DS-cards with check of the
write was correct. And also with the IMG file. Makes not difference.
I must be missing something obvious.
Would appreciate suggestions.
The computer I am trying to boot it from is this very modest
mini-pc, using the usb-port with a SD-to-usb adapter. Has an Intel
Celeron J4115.
https://www.bmax-eu.com/collections/bmax-mini-pc/products/bmax-b2-plus
Thanks,
Walter
I guess there is different ways to install, I put the IMG on to a
CD, booted my IBM 486 100 Mhz with a floopy that lets me boot from
CD, then I install FreeDos to the CF-card (in a CF to IDE adapter),
the CF card I prepared with GParted on a nix machine, used <2 GB
partition and FAT16. I did the same thing on a 1000 Mhz Coppermine.
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