Re: [Freedos-user] an installation problem

2009-04-13 Thread Jim Hall
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 8:45 AM, teo gum teo...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not an experienced user... The problem is that I can't install FreeDos to boot it separately from WinXP and DOS.7.1: it doesn't create fdboot file (at the moment I can't remember the proper name of it, and not at home now to

Re: [Freedos-user] an installation problem

2009-04-13 Thread teo gum
Thank you I did a mistake in my previous message: the problem exists not only in the before-installation, but in the after-instalaltion as well - no way to find a way) I suppose in the before-install the boot file must not be created - as for the unique OS at the moment. But in the after- one it

Re: [Freedos-user] Newbie installation problem

2005-08-05 Thread Wolfgang Schmidt
Thank you very much, my FreeDOS now lives in peaceful coexistence with Damn Small Linux :-) Wolfgang Blair Campbell schrieb: SYS C: C: /BOOTONLY Try a regular SYS C:. I almost sounds as if you are missing the kernel on your hard drive, although this shouldn't have happened.

Re: [Freedos-user] Newbie installation problem

2005-08-02 Thread Blair Campbell
SYS C: C: /BOOTONLY Try a regular SYS C:. I almost sounds as if you are missing the kernel on your hard drive, although this shouldn't have happened. FDISK /MBR This does basically the same as SYS C: BOOTONLY --- SF.Net email is sponsored

Re: [Freedos-user] Newbie installation problem

2005-08-02 Thread kd4d
Hi Blair: No, I think the FDISK /MBR writes a MASTER BOOT RECORD to the hard disk. SYS writes a VOLUME BOOT RECORD to a disk partition, and (if you omit bootonly) copies kernely.sys and command.com to the partition. These are different things. Mark SYS C: C: /BOOTONLY Try a regular SYS