Hi, (sorry I'm late)
On 6/20/11, Chris D chri...@fastmail.fm wrote:
I am having trouble installing FreeDOS on an ancient Toshiba laptop
which has no CD drive, only a floppy.
Do you really want / need a full FreeDOS install? In particular,
what apps do you really want / need? Games?
Op 5-7-2011 15:54, Chris D schreef:
What I found was that the boot floppy created is incomplete and that
therefore the installation doesn't work. I got around that with help
from this group but found that this did not install a boot menu to allow
me to carry on using the existing PC-DOS,
Hi Bernd,
For example the ideal FreeDOS drive to install to is a C: which is:
* part of a harddisk
No really.
* harddisk is first harddisk on IDE/ATA/SATA controller
Should be easy to check.
* partition is large enough
* partition has enough free space
* partition is writable
*
Hi :-)
(I know Eric promotes my old 2008 RUFFIDEA [three disks] sometimes,
or even his Brezel mini distro, but I halfway think mine's too old
and quirky to be generally useful, esp. nowadays. Alas. And it's just
too hard to update properly, and I have real life chapping my ass,
so that
Hi,
On 7/5/11, Chris D chri...@fastmail.fm wrote:
I don't need FreeDOS on that machine, full install or otherwise. All
I wanted to do was take a look at FreeDOS to find out what it can do.
I know, I mean, I figured that much. I just meant, What apps do you
want to run? (The full FD 1.0 is
Op 20-6-2011 22:31, Chris D schreef:
Is that boot floppy really as useless as it seems to be? Is there
really a way of installing to a machine without a CD drive?
You'll need at least the SHSUCDX and SHSUCDHD programs to access the
ISO's contents:
SHSUCDHD /F:C:\FDBOOTCD.ISO
SHSUCDX
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To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 16:10:45 +0200
Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Installing with no CD drive
Op 20-6-2011 22:31, Chris D schreef:
Is that boot floppy really as useless as it seems to be? Is there
really a way of installing to a machine without a CD
File the bug report on the sourceforge site bug tracker. I don't have a
computer handy to provide better links/details. I believe there is a
distribution option, but if you can assign it to me. Thank you.
Jeremy
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I am having trouble installing FreeDOS on an ancient Toshiba laptop
which has no CD drive, only a floppy. In the Install section of the
wiki, also known as the FreeDOS Install HOWTO, I read:
With the special boot diskette, you can even install on a PC which does
not have a cdrom drive: Just copy
