Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2019-08-19 Thread kaye n
UPDATE It seems it installed in the USB installer itself! On Mon, Aug 19, 2019 at 8:06 PM kaye n wrote: > Thank you David and Jerome. > > I used my Linux operating system's Unetbootin to create the FreeDOS USB > installer. > > It failed to boot. So I logged back in to my Linux, created a boot

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2019-08-19 Thread kaye n
Thank you David and Jerome. I used my Linux operating system's Unetbootin to create the FreeDOS USB installer. It failed to boot. So I logged back in to my Linux, created a boot flag for the USB flash drive using GParted. It booted. There was a blue screen and I had only "Default" to choose

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2019-08-19 Thread David McMackins
vmdk is a virtual machine image for VMWare. You want to use the img file. Use a disk imaging software to image your drive using the img file as the image. Regards, David E. McMackins II www.mcmackins.org www.delwink.com On 8/19/19 5:39 AM, kaye n wrote: > Hello Friends > > InĀ 

[Freedos-user] (no subject)

2019-08-19 Thread kaye n
Hello Friends In http://wiki.freedos.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page It says, *If your computer doesn't have a CDROM drive,* use the USB fob drive installer. Write this to a USB fob drive and boot it to start the install. The "Full" and "Lite" versions install the same FreeDOS, but the "Lite"

Re: [Freedos-user] groups/sets of packages included in FreeDOS 1.3 RC-1

2019-08-19 Thread steve
Ignore my last. I found FDIMPLES will install to its own RAM disk only if you try to use it after booting the Live CD in a situation where the OS was already installed. Instead of C: being the fixed disk where FDIMPLES wants install everything, the RAM disk grabs C: and it quickly fills up.

Re: [Freedos-user] groups/sets of packages included in FreeDOS 1.3 RC-1

2019-08-19 Thread steve
Virtualbox won't allow me to use Ctrl+C to get to advanced mode. I see no way to do that. On 2019-08-18 15:17, Jerome Shidel wrote: > You can use FDIMPLES to browse and install the additional packages. Also, you > can have it export those differences to a file. Then if you redo, upgrade or >

Re: [Freedos-user] groups/sets of packages included in FreeDOS 1.3 RC-1

2019-08-19 Thread steve
Noticed FDIMPLES doesn't give you a way to specify what drive is used to install drives. I tried to install everything and it quickly ran out of space on the virtual drive/RAM disk. I looked at the CLI option and didn't see any way to specify a destination. On 2019-08-18 15:17, Jerome Shidel