On Sun, 7 Mar 2004 18:34:52 -0800 (PST), you wrote:
Hi Julien,
>Thanks. I got the SCSI drivers to load now, and the
>CD-ROM is visible. Unfortunately I get hangs trying to
>run the installer program (TEXTINST).
If you know what it does, try skip it and copy files manually. (some
of the install p
Eric,
Thanks. I got the SCSI drivers to load now, and the
CD-ROM is visible. Unfortunately I get hangs trying to
run the installer program (TEXTINST).
Also, I would really like to read the content of the
various TXT files on the CD (such as INSTALL.TXT) but
there is no "MORE" command on the flopp
Hi, if there is a fdconfig,sys file, FreeDOS ignores config,sys ...
so please try editing fdconfig,sys instead. In addition, DEVLOAD is
indeed a very limited kludge to load device drivers. Whenever possible,
use DEVICE (or DEVICEHIGH) instead. Use DEVICEHIGH only if your UMBs
are compatible with t
Hi,
I discovered FreeDOS yesterday. I downloaded both the
ISO and the floppy images.
I'm trying to install it on an old system with virgin
SCSI disks (recently low-level formatted). The CD-ROM
is also SCSI.
The controller is a Tekram DC390 U3W, based on a
Symbios logic chip. I have the DOS drive
Hi Jonathan,
On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 10:19:17AM -0500, Jonathan Coles wrote:
> but I know that which drive letter will be assigned to the RAM disk
> depends on the number of HD drives/partitions on the computer. Is there
> a way to [either]
>
> * find the RAM drive's letter in the AUTOEXEC scri
I tried out the ODIN 0.6 single-disk install. Generally, I like it. Less
experienced users might have trouble getting a working system out of it
as it provides no config files or help system.
I added the Help system and a directory called FOR_HD in which I place
FDCONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT fi
I tried using FreeDOS to create a bootable CD. It worked well. For my
purpose, though, I also want to create a RAM drive so that the
application has somewhere to write temporary files. TDSK.EXE works well,
but I know that which drive letter will be assigned to the RAM disk
depends on the number
