Hello Guys,
I am new to the mailing list and retro computers in general, (mostly work
on linux), but I've been having some problems with installation. I have a
Pentium 2 233mhz, 128mb ram, and a compaq presario i486, 8mb of ram ive
been trying to install freedos to. After the install and booting
Hi Andrew,
I assume your 486 and your Pentium2 both use ATAPI
CD drives and IDE harddisks, not SATA? Can you be
more specific about the (harddisk?) read errors on
the Pentium 2 after install? What does the BIOS and
CMOS setup say about your i486 which does not boot?
In general, I recommend the
Thank you for replying.
1) Both use IDE connectors, no sata.
2) The error simply says disk read error in the pentium 2. The i486 simply
has a black screen, like it is trying to load the OS but cannot. Both
computer see the hard drive in the bios ( no hard drive post errors).
3) I installed DOS
Hi Paul,
> On Jun 9, 2021, at 8:48 AM, Paul Dufresne via Freedos-user
> wrote:
>
> I am reading back the list... and I am at the critique of 1.3rc3.
>
> I think I saw some post about problems of identifying which drives are
> "active" (have a driver that drive them).
> Somehow it was
Hi Paul,
next to Jerome's tools, you may also like WHICHFAT and CDROM2:
https://auersoft.eu/soft/specials/
C:\>whichfat /?
WHICHFAT [x:]
Returns: generic:
0=FAT32 kernel, 1=FAT16 kernel 2=/? found.
For 1 drive:
0 not FAT, 1 no local drive,
12 FAT12, 16 FAT16, 32 FAT32.
I am reading back the list... and I am at the critique of 1.3rc3.
I think I saw some post about problems of identifying which drives are "active"
(have a driver that drive them).
Somehow it was mentions about file manager (GUI one) that helps with that, but
seems that it feels not being DOS
On Wed, Jun 09, 2021 at 07:37:30AM -0700, Andrew wrote:
> 2) The error simply says disk read error in the pentium 2.
Isn't it clear enough? You've got some sort of hardware problem. Try
different cables, different HDD etc.
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regards,
Zbigniew
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I dont see how it can he hardware related if both DOS 6 and 98 dont have
the problem, but freedos, all on the same hdd and same computer, using a
2Gb partition which shouldnt have LBA problems. Also two computers have
this same problem. Ive tried multiple drives and multiple cables.
On Wed, Jun
On Wed, Jun 09, 2021 at 08:40:25AM -0700, Andrew wrote:
> Ive installed different operating systems on the two hdds I have, over 15
> times in total between them all. Every time DOS and 98 installs fine,
> freedos always gives the same error. And if I boot from bios to cd to hdd,
> freedos also
1) The pentium 2 has LBA support, it sees even a 32gb windows 98 partition
no problem. i486 has no LBA support, so I keep the partition below 2gb. It
is fine seeing the 2gb DOS partition and booting from it.
2) the wording is read error while reading drive
This normally shows up when a hdd is
Hi!
> Perhaps just a simple bootloader would fix the problem? I only know of
> modern linux ones, perhaps systemd-boot would work from arch?
You can load DOS with many boot loaders including GRUB,
but that still usually relies on a working boot sector.
If the MBR has a problem (as said, FDISK
Gotcha, Ill need to learn more about this, perhaps try a manual install. Is
there any up to date guides for a manual installation?
Ive been using the freedos wiki as a guide, are there any better docs
available? Particularly about MBR and SYS with freedos?
On Wed, Jun 9, 2021 at 9:59 AM Eric
Hi Andrew,
> 1) The pentium 2 has LBA support, it sees even a 32gb windows 98 partition
> no problem. i486 has no LBA support, so I keep the partition below 2gb. It
> is fine seeing the 2gb DOS partition and booting from it.
It is possible that you end up getting a LBA-only boot sector when
Ive installed different operating systems on the two hdds I have, over 15
times in total between them all. Every time DOS and 98 installs fine,
freedos always gives the same error. And if I boot from bios to cd to hdd,
freedos also works, but I cant do that on i486 computer because it doesnt
have
Gotcha thank you guys for the support, I have to work till the end of this
week but will try the recommendations after that. If I get it to work ill
let you know what the problem was. Cheers!
On Wed, Jun 9, 2021 at 10:22 AM Eric Auer wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> > Ive been using the freedos wiki as a
Hi Andrew,
> 1) Both use IDE connectors, no sata.
>
> 2) The error simply says disk read error in the pentium 2. The i486 simply
> has a black screen, like it is trying to load the OS but cannot. Both
> computer see the hard drive in the bios ( no hard drive post errors).
At which point,
Perhaps just a simple bootloader would fix the problem? I only know of
modern linux ones, perhaps systemd-boot would work from arch?
On Wed, Jun 9, 2021 at 9:01 AM ZB wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 09, 2021 at 08:40:25AM -0700, Andrew wrote:
>
> > Ive installed different operating systems on the two hdds
On 6/8/2021 9:18 AM, Jim Hall wrote:
This is an interesting analysis and comparison between Oak
Technology's OAKCDROM (proprietary) and Jack's UDVD2 (free with
sources).
Have you shared this with Jack? I think he would want to see this so
he can improve compatibility in his driver.
Are you
Hi Andrew,
On 9 Jun 2021, at 19:20, Eric Auer wrote:
9) I will also try the FDISK /INFO command for both situations
Enjoy. You could also use XFDISK, which is more user friendly,
but shows fewer details. Note that both also have pretty long
config files which let you (mis-) configure lots of
An additional fact to be aware of…
All the normal install media for FreeDOS 1.3-RC4 uses and always installs the
386 kernel with large file system support. Thats the CD media, USB media and CD
Boot Floppy.
However, the alternate x86 installer uses the 8086 kernel. The current version
of this
Maybe let's start with this: how is your HDD partitioned and do you use any
boot-loader utility to load FreeDOS? If so - how its FreeDOS section looks like?
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regards,
Zbigniew
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