Just reread your email.
The is no need to recompile the Floppy Installer.
The installer itself is a Batch file that relies on external tools. The logic is all batch based on the responses from those tools. Most of which is handled by V8Power Tools. But, other utilities like FDISK play a big part in the process. Some tools get user input, some system information and others do the work of the install.
You can simply open the SETUP. BAT, follow its logic through the various tasks and edit what is needed. On Jul 2, 2025, at 9:39 PM, Lutalli via Freedos-user <freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
Thanks for all the replies!
Well I'm not sure if I should contact PocketDOS's developer to ask him to check if it's a bug in the BIOS implementation (maybe I will). And I don't know how to debug this myself...
As a debugging step, it would be interesting to boot the PocketDOS VM
with the FreeDOS Floppy Distro boot floppy and use F8 to turn
singlestepping ON. Accept the "SHELL=COMMAND.COM" line, but do not
accept the "\FDAUTO.BAT" line. You should get put into a DOS prompt.
That at least demonstrates that FreeDOS will boot on PocketDOS.
This is indeed interesting. After entering the DOS prompt I feel like I get more control over the whole thing.
I'm not gonna try manually running the installation process yet, but is there a way to modify the source code and recompile it to an IMG file? I'm thinking, if that's possible, I could probably skip that prompt (and maybe other similar ones too) by simply editing the code. Hi there,
I'm trying to install FreeDOS 1.4 (Floppy Edition) on an HP Jornada 720 using PocketDOS. The installer runs but I get stuck at "Do you want to proceed [Y,N]?". There the cursor is still blinking but I can't type anything. Same problem occurs with FreeDOS 1.3.
Also check this thread from the HPC:Factor forum. Does anyone probably know what is causing this and how to fix it?
Here's another question asked in this thread: Is there a command line setup flag to disable the graphical part of the
installer, and only run in text mode? Or what setup flag in the
"StepByStep" mode controls that?
Thanks in advance! Lutalli
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