Hi Finally, I reinstalled FreeDOS, and now it works fine.
First, I installed Smart Boot Manager on a floppy, and than I put a floppy drive to this old computer. And I put my dvd reader drive to this too. Than I was able to boot FreeDOS CD, that was burned to a cd-rw. I think the problem was that the hdd in the old computer has 504M place, but in my computer the hdd had 520M. So thanks for the help! BaT Eric Auer wrote: > > > Hi Bat, > >> The installation was on my another computer, >> and on it FreeDOS booted and worked well. > > So you installed while the harddisk was plugged to another > computer, and then moved the harddisk to this computer? > >> I installed just the base, but without base's packages. >> So i have 3 files in C:\, a command.com, a kernel.sys and >> a FDOS\install.log. Nothing else. > > Then you installed nothing ;-). That is not BASE. That is > just kernel and shell. You REALLY should install at least > himem and write a small config and autoexec. > >> When I'm booting FreeDOS, it writes "Starting FreeDOS", then >> nothing happens. > > This is probably because your 486 BIOS uses another geometry > than your "another computer" BIOS for the same disk. Maybe > the other computer uses LBA and the 486 does not. > > I really recommend to install DOS on the 486 by installing it > on the 486. Not by plugging the harddisk to another computer. > If you need a diskette distro, please use FreeDOS Balder. > > Eric > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. > Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. > Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. > Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/FreeDOS-on-an-old-machine-tf4161640.html#a11844621 Sent from the FreeDOS - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
