Hi, i've read the docs for like, well pretty many times, and i still
don't get what the f*ck is wrong. It's getting me fairly pissed though.
I wanted to put freedos on my 286 compaq slt laptop for nostalgy, and
enjoy my time with good games.
Hardware works, atleast under ms-dos 3.3, ms-dos 6.2 and minix.
The hard-disk(20Mb) is in fat16 and formatted.
1) I downloaded all the images in:
http://fdos.org/ripcord/beta9sr2/disksets/1440KB/
2) I made a boot floppy out of the image B9BOOT01.IMG (i assume it was
the one, 'cause in the docs there was like no instructions of wtf to do
with disksets unless you look from the wiki howtos that only speak of
mini.img and full.img and every fucking img than the ones in the
release)
I used dd for that (dd of=B9BOOT01.IMG if=/dev/fd0) and i'm sure that
the device and filename are correct and excist.
3) I insert the disk (made from B9BOOT01.IMG) to my laptop and turn it on.
It tells me that syslinux needs 386 at least and it's running
kernel.sys instead.
4) It asks do i want to load XMS, safe mode, to be asked, or himem+emm386
I choose ask because i think i'm not going to need xms or himem+emm386
on my 286 with 640KB ram.
5) It asks do i want to load xms, continue setup or do anything
manually on the command line. I choose continue setup.
6) it asks for language... i comply EN.
7) an error appears on the screen "FreeDOS SETUP could not find a cdrom
device on this computer." ... Oh gee i wonder why (;
8) setup asks what do i want to do next (to get over with it and play
awesome games ofcourse) I choose "Don't use a cdrom device for
installing FreeDOS"
9) Setup asks for an alternative installation media. I choose disks
(wich i have made from the images mentioned above)
10) It says "Please wait while copying temporary files to harddisk."
Then it fucks up and i get upset...
"Bad command or filename - "a:\freedos\tunz"."
"Bad command or filename - "install.bat"."
c:\TEMP>
End of story and nobody lives happily ever after. (ps. the dir c:\temp\
is empty)
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