Hi again,
I stumbled upon this thread again and haven't heard anything
privately, so I'm wondering if the OP got everything figured out.
(Guess I should cc him.)
> The Toshiba has PC-DOS installed on a single FAT16 partition.
BTW, I'm not sure if (any or all versions of) PC-DOS has the same
li
Hi,
On 7/5/11, Chris D 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 quite huge for
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
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
> *
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 Chris,
I have also had this problem several times. What I did was create a boot floppy
with format, fdpkg and sys.
Then sys the hard drive and copy all the packages into a temporary folder and
install them with fdpkg.
It took about 3 floppies to copy all the base packages
> It also has a PCM
lpful, knowledgeable and friendly, so I'm not entirely giving up on
FreeDOS!
Chris
- Original message -
From: "Rugxulo"
To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net
Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2011 03:33:00 -0500
Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Installing with no CD drive
Hi, (sorry I'm late
Hi, (sorry I'm late)
On 6/20/11, Chris D 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? Development? Networking?
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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Simpl
rnd Blaauw"
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
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 /D:SHSU
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 co
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