Re: [Freedos-user] Preload and start installer from installation target?

If your using a cf flash chip; remember that you have to run fdisk/mbr to get a usable mbr and the chip has to set to active mode with fdisk - otherwise it won't boot for you. DS On Mon, 2 Jan 2017 02:33:10 +0100 userbeit...@abwesend.de writes: > Hello again! > I just wanted to report back for

Re: [Freedos-user] Preload and start installer from installation target?

Sounds like the CHS data you noted down might not be "true" CHS (if we can talk about "true" CHS at all on a flash device...), but rather LBA- assisted or "Large-shifted" geometry. Have you forced the disk mode in your ~2000 PC when doing the auto-detection? If not, it probably uses LBA by

Re: [Freedos-user] Preload and start installer from installation target?

Hello again! I just wanted to report back for all of you who helped me and gave great inputs. Thanks for the CHS/LBA info. This is an IDE Flash module that goes directly into the MBs slot. It doesn't allow to connect another device beside it, so it also doesn't have a master/slave jumper. It

Re: [Freedos-user] Preload and start installer from installation target?

On Fri, 30 Dec 2016 17:44:47 +0100, userbeitrag wrote: > What I can do thou is plug the IDE HDD into another PC and pre-load > FreeDOS there. Then, connecting the IDE HDD inside the 486-PC, FreeDOS > should start. That's correct, if done carefully. You have to make sure tough that both computers

Re: [Freedos-user] Preload and start installer from installation target?

Jerome and Louis, thanks! >> 1) Does the installer check the hardware and make choices? If so, this >> would be totally wrong since I will be preloading it on a very different PC. > Yes a little. Only to compensate for the different quirks in the common vm > platforms. > So, if you install to

Re: [Freedos-user] Preload and start installer from installation target?

On 2016-12-30 23:31, Jose Antonio Senna wrote: > Some (maybe silly) remarks: > > -Is the HD blank or do you already have some O/S working >in that PC ? It is still blank. > -If you have say, MSDOS, on the PC do you want to keep it >and make a dual-boot PC ? I will eventually

Re: [Freedos-user] Preload and start installer from installation target?

Hello! On 2016-12-30 18:39, Rugxulo wrote: > > I cannot easily create a 3.5 inch boot floppy to use it in > > the 486-PC. > > Is the drive itself broken or you don't have a working floppy disk or ...? I tried old floppy disks in a USB FDD that I acquired, but it doesn't work. I don't know

Re: [Freedos-user] Preload and start installer from installation target?

One other thing you can try with VirtualBox (and Bochs, and QEMU, probably VMware Player) is use device pass through and install directly to the drive there using the VM (VirtualBox calls it raw access)[0][1]. The machine running the VM will likely be faster than your 486 and so the install should

Re: [Freedos-user] Preload and start installer from installation target?

If you have an IDE HD; you might try it the way I do. I use compact flash chips which have a standard IDE interface. I installed freedos on a chip and move it from one computer to another so far without problems. You just need a cf chip and an adapter both for sale on Amazon. It boots strait to

Re: [Freedos-user] Preload and start installer from installation target?

Hi, On Dec 30, 2016 10:46 AM, wrote: > > I cannot easily create a 3.5 inch boot floppy to use it in > the 486-PC. Is the drive itself broken or you don't have a working floppy disk or ...? --

Re: [Freedos-user] Preload and start installer from installation target?

> On Dec 30, 2016, at 11:44 AM, userbeit...@abwesend.de wrote: > > Hi, fellow FreeDOS users! I need your help. > > > I have an original Intel 80486 with 50 MHz that I want to try FreeDOS > on. I still haven't found the time so far an my first attempt came to an > early halt because I

[Freedos-user] Preload and start installer from installation target?

Hi, fellow FreeDOS users! I need your help. I have an original Intel 80486 with 50 MHz that I want to try FreeDOS on. I still haven't found the time so far an my first attempt came to an early halt because I couldn't get an installation media to start on this machine. *) The 486-PC doesn't