From: Dennis Fenton
Thanks to everyone on the FreeDOS list who tried to help me. I learned
a few things. After careful consideration I decided to go in a
different direction. I installed MS-DOS 7.10. It is now running
smoothly on my 486 laptop. I had to set up the SCSI drives by writing
a few lin
about FreeDOS.
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Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] boot floppy disk image too big for a disk
On 2017-03-24 03:46, Dennis Fenton wrote:
> Read what I wrote. I burned the iso to a CD. I also downloaded the floppy
img. It doesn't fit!
>
From: Rugxulo
Hi, Eric,
This reply may be pointless, but I'm sure you understand where I'm
coming from. In no way am I pretending that MS-DOS is technically
superior or preferred. The weakest claim is only that it is "probably"
more compatible (which is unavoidable since it's the original). It i
From: Eric Auer
Hi Rugxulo,
> If you already have the original gold standard of DOSes, i.e. MS-DOS
> (which was widely tested and hugely popular, by far the most
> ubiquitous DOS), then you don't urgently "need" any other DOS
> clone at all all, period.
Being the most widely used does not equa
From: userbeit...@abwesend.de
On 2017-03-24 03:46, Dennis Fenton wrote:
> Read what I wrote. I burned the iso to a CD. I also downloaded the floppy
img. It doesn't fit!
> So my first interaction on this forum is from someone who treats me like a
dummy. Perhaps another reason to say to Hell with F
From: Rugxulo
Hi,
On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 7:20 PM, Eric Auer wrote:
>
> I disagree about FreeDOS being "not ready yet" or "no advantage to MS DOS".
If you already have the original gold standard of DOSes, i.e. MS-DOS
(which was widely tested and hugely popular, by far the most
ubiquitous DOS),
From: Ralf Quint
On 3/24/2017 4:36 PM, Dennis Fenton wrote:
> I want the fat32 in order to see drives and files on my win98 computer if I
use Laplink. I was also hoping FreeDOS will do a better job of getting Arachne
online. It reports low memory with MS-DOS. I have run memmaker several times.
Us
PM
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Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] boot floppy disk image too big for a disk
Hi,
On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 6:36 PM, Dennis Fenton wrote:
> I want the fat32 in order to see drives and fil
ion and general questions about FreeDOS.
Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] boot floppy disk image too big for a disk
Hi,
On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 5:15 PM, Dennis Fenton wrote:
>
> The 486 that I plan to use FreeDOS on currentlyrCA has MS-DOS 6.22 as its
only OS.
> My plan is to completely re
From: Jerome Shidel
> On Mar 24, 2017, at 6:40 PM, Eric Auer wrote:
>
>
> Hi Dennis,
>
>> The 486 that I plan to use FreeDOS on currentlyrCA has MS-DOS 6.22 as
>> its only OS. My plan is to completely replace it but keep all my
>> installed programs. The SCSI drivers are all in C:\SCSI and I
floppy disk image too big for a disk
A backup on the same disk but different partitions
does not really help you if things go really wrong,
but as you say, data loss would be no real problem
for you... You should probably backup at least the
DOS SCSI drivers though ;-) Jerome also mentioned
the
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From: Rugxulo
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Hi,
On Fri, Mar
From: Dale E Sterner
Has anyone noticed that on Ebay someone is selling
a new HP mini with FREEDOS as its OS.
Straight from the factory with FREEDOS no setting up.
DS
On Thu, 23 Mar 2017 20:32:15 -0500 Dennis Fenton
writes:
> After some research I decided FreeDOS would be a good replacement
From: Eric Auer
A backup on the same disk but different partitions
does not really help you if things go really wrong,
but as you say, data loss would be no real problem
for you... You should probably backup at least the
DOS SCSI drivers though ;-) Jerome also mentioned
the drivers as being the
From: Rugxulo
Hi,
On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 5:15 PM, Dennis Fenton wrote:
>
> The 486 that I plan to use FreeDOS on currentlyrCA has MS-DOS 6.22 as its
only OS.
> My plan is to completely replace it but keep all my installed programs. The
SCSI
> drivers are all in C:\SCSI and I notice FreeDOS ha
> To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net
> Reply To: Discussion and general questions about FreeDOS.
> Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] boot floppy disk image too big for a disk
>
>
> A backup on the same disk but different partitions
> does not really help you if things go really wrong,
>
ric Auer
> Sent: Friday, March 24, 2017 4:33 PM
> To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net
> Reply To: Discussion and general questions about FreeDOS.
> Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] boot floppy disk image too big for a disk
>
>
> Hi Dennis,
>
>> I downloaded and installed WinImage 9
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From: Eric Auer
Hi Dennis,
> The 486 that I plan to use FreeDOS on currentlyrCA has MS-DOS 6.22 as
> its only OS. My plan is to completely replace it but keep all my
> installed programs. The SCSI drivers are all in C:\SCSI and I notice
> FreeDOS has its own equivalent of MSCDEX.EXE.
Well in
] boot floppy disk image too big for a disk
Hi Dennis,
> The 486 that I plan to use FreeDOS on currentlyrCA has MS-DOS 6.22 as
> its only OS. My plan is to completely replace it but keep all my
> installed programs. The SCSI drivers are all in C:\SCSI and I notice
> FreeDOS has its ow
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bject: Re: [Freedos-user] boot floppy disk image too big for a disk
> On Mar 23, 2017, at 11:56 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
>
> I just looked inside http://www.freedos.org/download/download/FD12FLOPPY.zip
> "boot floppy", and a 3.5" 1.44M floppy. My floppy has 1457664 total byt
floppy disk image too big for a disk
Hi Felix and Dennis,
> I just looked inside http://www.freedos.org/download/download/FD12FLOPPY.zip
> "boot floppy", and a 3.5" 1.44M floppy. My floppy has 1457664 total bytes,
2847
> 512 byte sectors. The image downloaded is 1474560 bytes,
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From: Eric Auer
Sent: Friday, March 24, 2017 4:33 PM
To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net
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Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] boot floppy disk image too big for a disk
Hi Dennis
From: Eric Auer
Hi Felix and Dennis,
> I just looked inside http://www.freedos.org/download/download/FD12FLOPPY.zip
> "boot floppy", and a 3.5" 1.44M floppy. My floppy has 1457664 total bytes,
2847
> 512 byte sectors. The image downloaded is 1474560 bytes, so the downloaded
image
> would not fi
From: Ralf QuintSent: Friday, March 24, 2017
12:15 PMTo:
freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.netReply To: Discussion
and general questions about FreeDOS.Subject: Re:
[Freedos-user] boot floppy disk image too big for
a disk
On 3/24/2017 5:42 AM, Dennis Fenton
wrote:
From: Dennis Fenton
After some research I decided FreeDOS would be a good replacement for
MS-DOS 6.22 on an old 486 I'm playing with.
I downloaded and burned to CD the iso. I also downloaded the boot
floppy disk image because the old 486 will not boot from the external
SCSI CD drive.
To my dismay
From: Jerome Shidel
A 1.44MB 3.5rCY DS HD floppy disk is 1,474,560 bytes when formatted. (2MB
unformatted)
It used 512 byte sectors, 18 sectors per track, 80 tracks per side and is/was a
two sided media.
512 * 18 * 80 * 2 = 1474560 / 1024 = 1.44MB floppy.
More information on this can be found
x Miata
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Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2017 9:57 PM
Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] boot floppy disk image too big for a disk
I just looked inside http://www.freedos.org/download/download/FD12FLOPPY.zip
"boot floppy", and a 3.5" 1.44M floppy.
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On Mar 23, 2017 9:32 PM, "Dennis Fenton" wrote:
After some research I decided Free
floppy disk image too big for a disk
I just looked inside http://www.freedos.org/download/download/FD12FLOPPY.zip
"boot floppy", and a 3.5" 1.44M floppy. My floppy has 1457664 total bytes, 2847
512 byte sectors. The image downloaded is 1474560 bytes, so the downloaded
image
wou
From: Jerome Shidel
> On Mar 23, 2017, at 11:56 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
>
> I just looked inside http://www.freedos.org/download/download/FD12FLOPPY.zip
> "boot floppy", and a 3.5" 1.44M floppy. My floppy has 1457664 total bytes,
2847
> 512 byte sectors. The image downloaded is 1474560 bytes, so
From: dmccunney
On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 9:32 PM, Dennis Fenton wrote:
> After some research I decided FreeDOS would be a good replacement for
> MS-DOS 6.22 on an old 486 I'm playing with.
> I downloaded and burned to CD the iso. I also downloaded the boot
> floppy disk image because the old 486
From: Felix Miata
I just looked inside http://www.freedos.org/download/download/FD12FLOPPY.zip
"boot floppy", and a 3.5" 1.44M floppy. My floppy has 1457664 total bytes, 2847
512 byte sectors. The image downloaded is 1474560 bytes, so the downloaded
image
would not fit here either.
-- "The wise
From: Rugxulo
Hi,
On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 10:56 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
>
> I just looked inside http://www.freedos.org/download/download/FD12FLOPPY.zip
> "boot floppy", and a 3.5" 1.44M floppy. My floppy has 1457664 total bytes,
2847
> 512 byte sectors. The image downloaded is 1474560 bytes, so
eeDOS.
SentafromamyaBlackBerrya10asmartphoneaonatheaBellanetwork.
a Original Message a
From: dmccunney
Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2017 9:26 PM
To: Discussion and general questions about FreeDOS.
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Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] boot floppy disk image too big for a disk
On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at
@lists.sourceforge.net
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Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] boot floppy disk image too big for a disk
Dennis Fenton composed on 2017-03-23 20:32 (UTC-0500):
> After some research I decided FreeDOS would be a good replacement for
> MS-DOS 6.22 on an old 4
eeDOS.
Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] boot floppy disk image too big for a disk
Hi,
On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 10:56 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
>
> I just looked inside http://www.freedos.org/download/download/FD12FLOPPY.zip
> "boot floppy", and a 3.5" 1.44M floppy. My floppy has 1457664
To: Discussion and general questions about FreeDOS.
Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] boot floppy disk image too big for a disk
On 2017-03-24 03:46, Dennis Fenton wrote:
> Read what I wrote. I burned the iso to a CD. I also downloaded the floppy
> img. It doesn't fit!
> So my first inter
On 2017-03-24 03:46, Dennis Fenton wrote:
> Read what I wrote. I burned the iso to a CD. I also downloaded the floppy
> img. It doesn't fit!
> So my first interaction on this forum is from someone who treats me like a
> dummy. Perhaps another reason to say to Hell with FreeDOS.
This is not possi
Hi, Eric,
This reply may be pointless, but I'm sure you understand where I'm
coming from. In no way am I pretending that MS-DOS is technically
superior or preferred. The weakest claim is only that it is "probably"
more compatible (which is unavoidable since it's the original). It is
dead and shoul
ll network.
Original Message
From: Dale E Sterner
Sent: Monday, March 27, 2017 8:59 AM
To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net
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Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] boot floppy disk image too big for a disk
You might have trouble with sound drivers.
You might have trouble with sound drivers. MS dos 7.1 wanted me to use
windows
to install one so that I could enjoy Windows but no windows to use.
FREEDOS doesn't care.
DS
On Sun, 26 Mar 2017 13:58:08 -0500 Dennis Fenton
writes:
> Thanks to everyone on the FreeDOS list who tried to help me. I
Hi Rugxulo,
> If you already have the original gold standard of DOSes, i.e. MS-DOS
> (which was widely tested and hugely popular, by far the most
> ubiquitous DOS), then you don't urgently "need" any other DOS
> clone at all all, period.
Being the most widely used does not equal being the best.
Thanks to everyone on the FreeDOS list who tried to help me. I learned
a few things. After careful consideration I decided to go in a
different direction. I installed MS-DOS 7.10. It is now running
smoothly on my 486 laptop. I had to set up the SCSI drives by writing
a few lines into autoexec.bat a
Hi,
On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 7:20 PM, Eric Auer wrote:
>
> I disagree about FreeDOS being "not ready yet" or "no advantage to MS DOS".
If you already have the original gold standard of DOSes, i.e. MS-DOS
(which was widely tested and hugely popular, by far the most
ubiquitous DOS), then you don't
Has anyone noticed that on Ebay someone is selling
a new HP mini with FREEDOS as its OS.
Straight from the factory with FREEDOS no setting up.
DS
On Thu, 23 Mar 2017 20:32:15 -0500 Dennis Fenton
writes:
> After some research I decided FreeDOS would be a good replacement for
> MS-DOS 6.22 on a
; Original Message
> From: Eric Auer
> Sent: Friday, March 24, 2017 7:21 PM
> To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net
> Reply To: Discussion and general questions about FreeDOS.
> Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] boot floppy disk image too big for a disk
>
>
> A backup on the same
Thanks Eric.
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From: Eric Auer
Sent: Friday, March 24, 2017 7:21 PM
To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net
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Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] boot floppy disk image too
A backup on the same disk but different partitions
does not really help you if things go really wrong,
but as you say, data loss would be no real problem
for you... You should probably backup at least the
DOS SCSI drivers though ;-) Jerome also mentioned
the drivers as being the most backup worthy
n and general questions about FreeDOS.
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Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] boot floppy disk image too big for a disk
Hi,
On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 6:36 PM, Dennis Fenton wrote:
> I want the fat32 in order to see drives and files on my win98 compu
bout FreeDOS.
Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] boot floppy disk image too big for a disk
Hi,
On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 5:15 PM, Dennis Fenton wrote:
>
> The 486 that I plan to use FreeDOS on currently has MS-DOS 6.22 as its only
> OS.
> My plan is to completely replace it but keep all my inst
n and general questions about FreeDOS.
Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] boot floppy disk image too big for a disk
On 3/24/2017 4:36 PM, Dennis Fenton wrote:
> I want the fat32 in order to see drives and files on my win98 computer if I
> use Laplink. I was also hoping FreeDOS will do a better job
Hi,
On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 6:36 PM, Dennis Fenton wrote:
> I want the fat32 in order to see drives and files on my win98 computer if I
> use Laplink.
Okay, but that's only the kernel (and boot sector to load it), not all
of the other files. Any single floppy could handle that minimal
"install"
On 3/24/2017 4:36 PM, Dennis Fenton wrote:
> I want the fat32 in order to see drives and files on my win98 computer if I
> use Laplink. I was also hoping FreeDOS will do a better job of getting
> Arachne online. It reports low memory with MS-DOS. I have run memmaker
> several times.
Using FAT32
.
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From: Rugxulo
Sent: Friday, March 24, 2017 6:17 PM
To: Discussion and general questions about FreeDOS.
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Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] boot floppy disk image too big for a disk
Hi,
On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 5:15 PM, Dennis
Hi,
On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 5:15 PM, Dennis Fenton wrote:
>
> The 486 that I plan to use FreeDOS on currently has MS-DOS 6.22 as its only
> OS.
> My plan is to completely replace it but keep all my installed programs. The
> SCSI
> drivers are all in C:\SCSI and I notice FreeDOS has its own equ
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From: Jerome Shidel
Sent: Friday, March 24, 2017 6:05 PM
To: Discussion and general questions about FreeDOS.
Reply To: Discussion and general questions about FreeDOS.
Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] boot floppy disk image too big for a disk
> On Mar 24, 2017, at 6:40 PM, Eric Auer wr
> On Mar 24, 2017, at 6:40 PM, Eric Auer wrote:
>
>
> Hi Dennis,
>
>> The 486 that I plan to use FreeDOS on currently has MS-DOS 6.22 as
>> its only OS. My plan is to completely replace it but keep all my
>> installed programs. The SCSI drivers are all in C:\SCSI and I notice
>> FreeDOS has
; From: Eric Auer
> Sent: Friday, March 24, 2017 4:33 PM
> To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net
> Reply To: Discussion and general questions about FreeDOS.
> Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] boot floppy disk image too big for a disk
>
>
> Hi Dennis,
>
>> I downloaded and installed W
Check!
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From: Eric Auer
Sent: Friday, March 24, 2017 5:41 PM
To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net
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Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] boot floppy disk image too big
Hi Dennis,
> The 486 that I plan to use FreeDOS on currently has MS-DOS 6.22 as
> its only OS. My plan is to completely replace it but keep all my
> installed programs. The SCSI drivers are all in C:\SCSI and I notice
> FreeDOS has its own equivalent of MSCDEX.EXE.
Well in that case, you can si
Bell network.
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From: Eric Auer
Sent: Friday, March 24, 2017 4:33 PM
To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net
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Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] boot floppy disk image too big for a disk
Hi Dennis,
> I downloaded and instal
Hi Dennis,
> I downloaded and installed WinImage 9.0 on my win98 computer. It has a
> floppy drive. I successfully wrote the img file to a floppy.
> Another issue occurred to me. My cd-rom drive is a SCSI external type.
That might be a problem, depending on your SCSI controller
and whether it ha
t: Re: [Freedos-user] boot floppy disk image too big for a disk
On 3/24/2017 5:42 AM, Dennis Fenton
wrote:
I
was just trying to simply copy it. I get an insufficient space
message.
That is to be expected.
A disk image is exactly th
On 3/23/2017 9:47 PM, Gregg Eshelman wrote:
It is possible to format a floppy a bit over size. Most drives will
accommodate 2 to 4 extra tracks. Depending on the drive and the
controller it's possible to alter the number of sectors per track, but
all tracks must have the same number of sectors.
.From: Ralf QuintSent: Friday, March 24, 2017 12:15 PMTo: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.netReply To: Discussion and general questions about FreeDOS.Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] boot floppy disk image too big for a
I see.
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From: Eric Auer
Sent: Friday, March 24, 2017 11:38 AM
To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net
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Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] boot floppy disk image too big
On 3/24/2017 5:42 AM, Dennis Fenton wrote:
I was just trying to simply copy it. I get an insufficient space message.
That is to be expected.
A disk image is exactly that, a sector by sector image of EVERY sector
on the disk. That includes those of the boot sector (includes the
BPB-BIOS Paramt
Hi Felix and Dennis,
> I just looked inside http://www.freedos.org/download/download/FD12FLOPPY.zip
> "boot floppy", and a 3.5" 1.44M floppy. My floppy has 1457664 total bytes,
> 2847
> 512 byte sectors. The image downloaded is 1474560 bytes, so the downloaded
> image
> would not fit here ei
boot floppy disk image too big for a disk
> On Mar 23, 2017, at 11:56 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
>
> I just looked inside http://www.freedos.org/download/download/FD12FLOPPY.zip
> "boot floppy", and a 3.5" 1.44M floppy. My floppy has 1457664 total bytes,
>
-user] boot floppy disk image too big for a disk
Hi,
On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 10:56 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
>
> I just looked inside http://www.freedos.org/download/download/FD12FLOPPY.zip
> "boot floppy", and a 3.5" 1.44M floppy. My floppy has 1457664 total bytes,
> 28
I was just trying to simply copy it. I get an insufficient space message.
Exactly
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Original Message
From: Felix Miata
Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2017 10:56 PM
To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net
Reply To: Discussion and general questions about FreeDOS.
Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] boot floppy disk image too
> On Mar 23, 2017, at 11:56 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
>
> I just looked inside http://www.freedos.org/download/download/FD12FLOPPY.zip
> "boot floppy", and a 3.5" 1.44M floppy. My floppy has 1457664 total bytes,
> 2847
> 512 byte sectors. The image downloaded is 1474560 bytes, so the downloaded
A 1.44MB 3.5” DS HD floppy disk is 1,474,560 bytes when formatted. (2MB
unformatted)
It used 512 byte sectors, 18 sectors per track, 80 tracks per side and is/was a
two sided media.
512 * 18 * 80 * 2 = 1474560 / 1024 = 1.44MB floppy.
More information on this can be found at
https://en.wikiped
Hi,
On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 10:56 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
>
> I just looked inside http://www.freedos.org/download/download/FD12FLOPPY.zip
> "boot floppy", and a 3.5" 1.44M floppy. My floppy has 1457664 total bytes,
> 2847
> 512 byte sectors. The image downloaded is 1474560 bytes, so the download
o: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net
Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2017 9:57 PM
Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] boot floppy disk image too big for a disk
I just looked inside http://www.freedos.org/download/download/FD12FLOPPY.zip
"boot floppy", and a 3.5" 1.44M floppy. My floppy
On Mar 23, 2017 9:32 PM, "Dennis Fenton" wrote:
After some research I decided FreeDOS would be a good replacement for
...
To my dismay I found that the boot disk image is too big to fit on a
1.44 floppy.
...
What program are you using to write the image to your floppy? Boot images
cannot be c
I just looked inside http://www.freedos.org/download/download/FD12FLOPPY.zip
"boot floppy", and a 3.5" 1.44M floppy. My floppy has 1457664 total bytes, 2847
512 byte sectors. The image downloaded is 1474560 bytes, so the downloaded
image
would not fit here either.
-- "The wise are known for the
: Discussion and general questions about FreeDOS.
Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] boot floppy disk image too big for a disk
Dennis Fenton composed on 2017-03-23 20:32 (UTC-0500):
> After some research I decided FreeDOS would be a good replacement for
> MS-DOS 6.22 on an old 486 I'm playin
Dennis Fenton composed on 2017-03-23 20:32 (UTC-0500):
> After some research I decided FreeDOS would be a good replacement for
> MS-DOS 6.22 on an old 486 I'm playing with.
> I downloaded and burned to CD the iso. I also downloaded the boot
> floppy disk image because the old 486 will not boot fro
twork.
Original Message
From: dmccunney
Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2017 9:26 PM
To: Discussion and general questions about FreeDOS.
Reply To: Discussion and general questions about FreeDOS.
Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] boot floppy disk image too big for a disk
On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 9:32 PM, Dennis F
On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 9:32 PM, Dennis Fenton wrote:
> After some research I decided FreeDOS would be a good replacement for
> MS-DOS 6.22 on an old 486 I'm playing with.
> I downloaded and burned to CD the iso. I also downloaded the boot
> floppy disk image because the old 486 will not boot from
After some research I decided FreeDOS would be a good replacement for
MS-DOS 6.22 on an old 486 I'm playing with.
I downloaded and burned to CD the iso. I also downloaded the boot
floppy disk image because the old 486 will not boot from the external
SCSI CD drive.
To my dismay I found that the boot
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