[Freedos-user] Installation Difficulties

2005-08-26 Thread Matthew Fisher
I'm struggling to install FreeDos Beta9Sr1 on an old Pentium box with a new (refurbished) harddrive and no CD drive. Installing just the base packages from floppy works, but on startup from the harddrive, it simply sits there, harddrive not spinning, after the hardware checks. I've tried to sys

RE: [Freedos-user] Installation Difficulties

2005-08-26 Thread Matthew Fisher
Thanks for the quick response. There's no CD drive in the box, and not one available, so I can't avail myself of your experimental updated version. OK, clean install of FreeDOS, harddrive just stops after the PCI hardware list. There are 4 weird phone-type ISA cards in the next slots; perhaps

Re: [Freedos-user] Installation Difficulties

2005-08-26 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Matthew Fisher schreef: Still stymied, but I don't actually think it's a hardware question. After the install completes, on reboot it's not actually finding anything to start up: everything is still in the C:\temp directory, and the post-install scripts aren't running. if I recall correctly,

[Freedos-user] Re: how to setup network on freedos

2005-08-26 Thread M. Atif Qureshi
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