[Freedos-user] FreeDOS on an old machine

2007-07-28 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi! I have an old computer and I installed FreeDOS on it. The computer has a 486dx processor, 16M ram, and an 520M hdd. The installation was on my another computer, and on it FreeDOS booted and worked well. I installed just the base, but without base's packages. So i have 3 files in C:\, a

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS on an old machine

2007-07-28 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Finally, I reinstalled FreeDOS, and now it works fine. First, I installed Smart Boot Manager on a floppy, and than I put a floppy drive to this old computer. And I put my dvd reader drive to this too. Than I was able to boot FreeDOS CD, that was burned to a cd-rw. I think the problem was

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS on an old machine

2007-07-28 Thread Ulrich Hansen
Hi Bat, gratulations to the successfull installation! :-) Just for the record I'd like to add, that I installed FreeDOS 1.0 recently on a quite similar machine, a Compaq Contura Aero 486SXJ 33 Laptop with 20 MB RAM, no CD/DVD and only an external PCMCIA floppy drive. Though there is no CD