Hi, > On Jul 20, 2023, at 5:47 PM, Karen Lewellen via Freedos-user > <freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > Hi folks, > did the obvious and visited the readme for the download section of freedos. > While there is indeed a floppy only install, I understand one should over > ride the 286 assumption with a switch to allow for say a p2 or p3 install?
The CPU detection utility used by the installer has compatibility issues with some processors. For example, there are some 486 systems that are detected as a 186. This has been a known issue for a while. Unfortunately, I just have not had the time to resolve that. As a stop gap, if the installer is told the system is less than a 386, it assumes it is incorrect and installs the 386 package set. So, there should be no need to override the detected CPU on 386+ systems. For systems with less than a 386, you will want to override it to ensure the 8086 compatible kernel is installed. > are the networking packages in this install? The networking support package provided with FreeDOS only supports a very narrow range of network interface cards. It only includes a couple drivers. Mostly to provide networking support for VirtualBox and VMware. Therefore, the Floppy Edition only installs the networking support package on the known compatible virtual machines. It does not normally install the network support package on real hardware. It is possible to override that and force the installation of the network support package. But, it is not likely to provide network support “out-of-the-box’ on real hardware. It would probably be easier to just copy the FDNET package to a floppy and install it using FDINST. However, it normally will only attempt to bring up networking in those known virtual machines and will require a command line option to make the attempt on real hardware. If I recall correctly, running ‘fdnet.bat try’ will make try on real hardware. > Thanks, > Karen Jerome _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
