> On Nov 2, 2025, at 1:21 PM, peter--- via Freedos-user > <[email protected]> wrote: > P.s. Once upon a time, Boot Manager started FreeDOS. > https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Oberon/Booting#/media/File:OberonBootManagerMenu.png > Is the installer for FreeDOS 1.2 available? I hunted unsuccessfully > in freedos.org.
The official server which provides the downloads for FreeDOS is IBIBLIO. You can visit it directly and download past, current and test versions of FreeDOS there under https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/ The primary install media for FreeDOS 1.2, 1.3 and 1.4 use the same installer. Since, when you let the installer “do its thing” the OS booted, I don’t think the installer is the main issue. After you install Oberon, FreeDOS would no longer boot. To me this would indicate the problem is elsewhere. However, the installer relies on external tools like FDISK to preform key elements of the install. So, it is possible you could experience different results when installing different versions of the OS. Many of those programs which the installer uses have changed since earlier OS versions. You could also try using the TEST version. While later versions can exist, it has the newest versions of the various programs we have at the time the test version is built. Generally, we build a new test version on the 1st of each month.
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