> FreeDOS can run on this kind of hardware, but it takes some effort to > collect suitable versions of the kernel and system tools. I did this > for FreeDOS 1.0, and created a set of PC-compatible boot floppies with > just the minimal DOS tools. You may want to try these floppies as a > starting point.
Hello, Thank you very much. Of course, I had suspected that the image I've used to boot on my PC had been compiled for more recent CPUs. But I could not find any suitable image. Up to now. As a matter of fact, I wanted to create such a distro. However, I still got some problems that are worth mentionning. Creating a bootable 5"1/4 floppy prooved near to impossible as the FORMAT command in FreeDOS didn't recognize my drive on my P4. When booting from the CD, I could apparently not access it because the 3"1/2 floppy becomes the B: drive and then C: is the hard disk (which is probably correct in fact). So I booted from a 3"1/2 floppy, but then I could read and write files on existing (MS-)DOS formatted 5"1/4 floppies, but not format : I always get an error stating "Invalid drive B:" and "[Error 61]" (if I remember well). I tried with various parameters including /F and /4 (my drive is a 1.2Mb one). I ended up using the SYS command on an MS-DOS formatted disk. Also, hitting ctrl-alt-delete leads to various crashes (hung computer, kernel fatal error, or erratic msg display, it depends) on my P4 but never to a reboot, do you know something about this ? And just FMI, could you explain me why the behaviour at boot is different on my P4 and on the XT : the first chars displayed are "FreeDOS" on my P4, whereas I got a "..................................123" (crash) on the XT. I will try again and keep you posted. Thanks, Edouard. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
