Re: [Freedos-user] Trouble installing FreeDOS using fd1440 diskette and cdrom

2006-08-25 Thread Blair Campbell
You have to use the floppy image that is on the CD-ROM (extract its files to a 1440kb floppy, then sys it), or you can use Smart Boot Manager to allow your computer to boot from a CD-ROM. On 8/25/06, Collin Donnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I tried posting something like this before - but > hav

[Freedos-user] Trouble installing FreeDOS using fd1440 diskette and cdrom

2006-08-25 Thread Collin Donnell
I tried posting something like this before - but haven't seen it come up yet so maybe I sent it to the wrong place or something. If they do both come up - apologies. Anyways- heres the problem. I'm trying to install the latest fdbase onto an older Pentium that does not support booting from the

Re: [Freedos-user] Trouble installing FreeDOS

2005-11-01 Thread Malte Gell
On Tuesday 01 November 2005 23:41, Bernd Blaauw wrote: > Malte Gell schreef: > > "unknown previous DOS operating system > > errorlevel code: 3 3" > some of my flaky installscript coding perhaps causes this. > When FreeDOS starts, go to safe mode (F5 usually). type SYS C: to > install kernel, com

Re: [Freedos-user] Trouble installing FreeDOS

2005-11-01 Thread Blair Campbell
> some of my flaky installscript coding perhaps causes this. > When FreeDOS starts, go to safe mode (F5 usually). type SYS C: to > install kernel, commandshell and bootsector. > Next, run install.exe if you can. I had changed the install script to fix this in my ISOs. See if you can find the chan

Re: [Freedos-user] Trouble installing FreeDOS

2005-11-01 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Malte Gell schreef: "unknown previous DOS operating system errorlevel code: 3 3" some of my flaky installscript coding perhaps causes this. When FreeDOS starts, go to safe mode (F5 usually). type SYS C: to install kernel, commandshell and bootsector. Next, run install.exe if you can. Bern

[Freedos-user] Trouble installing FreeDOS

2005-11-01 Thread Malte Gell
Hello, I just downloaded the 7 floppy images from FreeDOS Beta9 SR2 at ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/beta9sr1/disksets/1440KB/ After booting and choosing to install FreeDOS the procedure stops with an obscure error message exactly like this: "unknown prev