I usually don't use the installers, try to install manually: - Copy KERNEL.SYS + FREECOM.COM + SYS.COM + WDE.COM - Backup B.S. with WDE - SYS C: /BOOTONLY
On 2/9/13, Ray Davison <ray...@charter.net> wrote: > A little background. My first PC ran DOS 3.3 on a 28M HDD that I broke > into three partitions, all primaries. Since the extended came out every > machine I have had has had a single primary - 2G or less, Fat 16 - with > one or more installs of DOS and maybe Win9X. The rest of the drive, and > any other drives have been a single extended, which carried whatever GUI > OSs I was running as well as apps and data. > > I just took a fresh HDD, created a 2G, primary at the front, and for the > first time ever, that partition is FAT32. I then created several fat32 > logicals. > > I ran the 1.1 CD. When I got to the MBR selection at the end I selected > the boot loader. Boot yields "non system disk". > > Ran CD again. Selected make floppy. Nothing was written to the disk. > > Ran CD again. Selected write FreeDOS to MBR. Boot is OK. > > Should the boot loader and floppy selections be expected to work? > > TY > Ray > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Free Next-Gen Firewall Hardware Offer > Buy your Sophos next-gen firewall before the end March 2013 > and get the hardware for free! Learn more. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/sophos-d2d-feb > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Free Next-Gen Firewall Hardware Offer Buy your Sophos next-gen firewall before the end March 2013 and get the hardware for free! Learn more. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sophos-d2d-feb _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
