Re: [Freedos-user] Floppy only
Hi, On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 9:54 AM Jacques-Olivier Farcy wrote: > > I am trying to install freedos on a computer without USB port. > Just floppy and a little hard drive inside. Are you trying FD 1.2 or the newer (unfinished) 1.3-rc2? * http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.3/previews/1.3-rc2/ (has a floppy image) There's nothing fancy about FreeDOS nor anything mandatory about installers or .iso files or anything. So, as mentioned, you can use a floppy image if all you need is (minimally) the kernel and shell. (The shell had another pre-release a few months ago but hasn't been heavily tested yet. The kernel hasn't had a proper release since 2016. So FreeDOS hasn't had any majorly disruptive or amazing changes recently, but some small things still get done on the side.) I almost hate to point to this, but here's yet another floppy image to use (far from perfect, but it mostly works): * http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/unofficial/metados/ Since that's the bare minimum (kernel and shell), you can add whatever else you want, piece by piece. Obviously the CD image is including a bunch of extras that you probably won't need. If you know exactly what software you need, you can grab it from iBiblio elsewhere (or third-party sites, obviously): * http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/ (among various other subdirs for other things) If you don't have internet, you could always go to your local public library, perhaps, and copy from there. (Get a USB floppy drive, if you need it.) If you did have internet *and* a working packet driver (somewhat rare), that would make installation (without USB or CD-ROM) *much* easier, IMHO. ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Floppy only
thanks ! I will try that Le 10/03/2020 à 16:09, Deposite Pirate a écrit : March 10, 2020 3:55 PM, "Jacques-Olivier Farcy" wrote: Hi, I am trying to install freedos on a computer without USB port. Just floppy and a little hard drive inside. Is there a way to do that ? Yes. Just like any other DOS. Get the image of a FreeDOS floppy and write it to a floppy disk. Make sure there are the utilites 'sys', 'format', 'fdisk' on the floppy. Then boot the floppy. 'fdisk c:' if you need to partition the hard drive, then 'format c: /s' to format the drive and install DOS to the drive. Then 'c:', 'mkdir dos', 'a:', 'copy *.* c:\dos'. Then you can format the floppy and copy more stuff to it to put in c:\dos. Edit config.sys and autoexec.bat to your liking but at least add PATH=C:\DOS to autoexec.bat. ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Floppy only
March 10, 2020 3:55 PM, "Jacques-Olivier Farcy" wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to install freedos on a computer without USB port. > Just floppy and a little hard drive inside. > > Is there a way to do that ? Yes. Just like any other DOS. Get the image of a FreeDOS floppy and write it to a floppy disk. Make sure there are the utilites 'sys', 'format', 'fdisk' on the floppy. Then boot the floppy. 'fdisk c:' if you need to partition the hard drive, then 'format c: /s' to format the drive and install DOS to the drive. Then 'c:', 'mkdir dos', 'a:', 'copy *.* c:\dos'. Then you can format the floppy and copy more stuff to it to put in c:\dos. Edit config.sys and autoexec.bat to your liking but at least add PATH=C:\DOS to autoexec.bat. ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Floppy only
It an old MS-DOS actually installed on the hard drive I don't have Internet (and i think i can't have). It is a vbery old laptop. Le 10/03/2020 à 16:18, Eric Auer a écrit : Hi! I am trying to install freedos on a computer without USB port. Just floppy and a little hard drive inside. If you have internet and another operating system on that computer, you could download the ISO and a boot floppy image. Then make sure to have a FAT partition on the harddisk and put the ISO there. Create a boot floppy from the image and use the ISO image drivers for DOS to open the ISO to simulate a CD-ROM with it. Which operating systems do you have on the computer yet? Another way would be to connect the harddisk to some other computer for installation. Of course if you have a CD-ROM drive in the computer in question and a CD/DVD writer somewhere, that would be the easiest method, next to using some USB drive. And of course you can also create the boot floppy on another computer with a floppy drive. The methods for doing so vary depending on the operating systems :-) Regards, Eric Is there a way to do that ? It seems that i need CR-ROM or USB to install Freedos ... Jacques-Olivier ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Floppy only
Hi! >> I am trying to install freedos on a computer without USB port. >> Just floppy and a little hard drive inside. If you have internet and another operating system on that computer, you could download the ISO and a boot floppy image. Then make sure to have a FAT partition on the harddisk and put the ISO there. Create a boot floppy from the image and use the ISO image drivers for DOS to open the ISO to simulate a CD-ROM with it. Which operating systems do you have on the computer yet? Another way would be to connect the harddisk to some other computer for installation. Of course if you have a CD-ROM drive in the computer in question and a CD/DVD writer somewhere, that would be the easiest method, next to using some USB drive. And of course you can also create the boot floppy on another computer with a floppy drive. The methods for doing so vary depending on the operating systems :-) Regards, Eric >> Is there a way to do that ? >> >> It seems that i need CR-ROM or USB to install Freedos ... >> >> Jacques-Olivier ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Floppy only
Hello. You'll need a CD or DVD to install, unless you have someone who have freeDos installed and make a floppy with boot. sys c: This worked in DOS it should work on freedos. On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 2:54 PM Jacques-Olivier Farcy < jacques-olivier.fa...@univ-rennes1.fr> wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to install freedos on a computer without USB port. > Just floppy and a little hard drive inside. > > Is there a way to do that ? > > It seems that i need CR-ROM or USB to install Freedos ... > > Jacques-Olivier > > > > ___ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] Floppy only
Hi, I am trying to install freedos on a computer without USB port. Just floppy and a little hard drive inside. Is there a way to do that ? It seems that i need CR-ROM or USB to install Freedos ... Jacques-Olivier ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
