On Sun, 2012-09-16 at 22:39 +0200, Eric Auer wrote: Thanks!
Wow. I imagined that it would be a little easier than this. While I understand that FreeDOS is a modern DOS not meant just for older hardware, I thought that one of the purposes for FreeDOS was to make older hardware relevant again. From the looks of it, I can't see any reasonable way to get FreeDOS working on an old machine that has no OS currently on it. Rich... > Hi Ricardus, > > Am 16.09.2012 21:56, schrieb Ricardus Vincente: > > I have looked around the FreeDOS web page and can't find them. I am > > looking to resurrect an old Zeos Pentium 90 that I have, but it won't > > boot from CD (its not a BIOS option), and it has no OS on it right now, > > so I am going to need to boot it from 3.5 floppy. > > > > Are there any official IMG files that I can create a boot floppy from? > > While it is not official, I really like the idea of > Rugxulo's RUFFIDEA distro. It packs most BASE programs > > as listed here www.freedos.org/software/?cat=base and > dozens of other small, free, often open source, goodies > on just three floppy disks. The sources are on separate > downloads which are significantly larger, ca 5-8 MB for > each floppy image. Not totally up to date, Rugxulo will > be happy to post his wish-list, but definitely one of > the best things you can do with 3 floppies! :-) Maybe > somebody wants to help updating it? > > https://sites.google.com/site/rugxulo/ > > The page also has a minimal one floppy boot floppy, in > style of the old (former?) fdos.org daily build disks. > > >From my own experience, the OLD FreeDOS 1.0 "Brezel" > floppy distro experiment, two disks is an appropriate > amount of space for all BASE binaries, basic docs as > the HTMLHELP (which works even while zipped) and some > small pile of other goodies. The third disk of Brezel > was just a big zip with the doc/ directory wrapped up. > As a German-friendly distro, Brezel also contained a > German HTMLHELP and FreeCOM and localization things. > > If you were to omit all text files and maybe drop a > few lesser-used apps, you CAN manage with one floppy > of running FreeDOS where MS DOS took 3 install disks > and probably more when you installed to floppies :-) > > But as said, between two and four disks of FreeDOS > are just so much more fun than doing with just one. > > Best, Eric :-) > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. > Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics > Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: > http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;258768047;13503038;j? > http://info.appdynamics.com/FreeJavaPerformanceDownload.html > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;258768047;13503038;j? http://info.appdynamics.com/FreeJavaPerformanceDownload.html _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
