Hi, Sorry for late reply.
On Tue, Jul 29, 2025 at 5:55 AM Pn Dh via Freedos-user <freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > I used to install Freedos 1.2 on an old Laptop (25y ca.) with a 433Mhz CPU > and 192MB Ram. Sounds good. Any favorite programs in particular? > Actually I am trying to install the latest Release of Freedos. > I don't remember exactly the steps I did to install Freedos 1.2. Don't get your hopes up too high. While there have been many good changes, a lot hasn't changed. (In fairness, it's mostly stable and well-tested already.) > However I tried to boot from CD, as it won't boot. I tried with a Floppy Disk > (144MB). > > On Windows 11, with cmd formating a: with "format /q a:". And write > x86BOOT.img (120MB) to a: , > with RawWrite.exe. The files are viewable on Win 11, but not on Freedos. > > Thanks for any helpful hints. 120 MB won't fit on a floppy. Perhaps you meant 5.25" 1.2 MB image?? That won't properly fit on 3.5" 1.44 MB. Realistically, I assume you can just copy the newer KERNEL.SYS and COMMAND.COM to the old system, and it should work (and other files like perhaps newer HIMEMX.EXE). There *is* a "floppy edition" (23 MB .ZIP), but I haven't tried it: * https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.4/FD14-FloppyEdition.zip _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
