Jerome, Eric, and others,
I used the SLIM image for a quick test on QEMU edited the FDITEMP.BAT file
and now have a successful (basic) install.
Will test the Full install with the 512 image later today.


On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 8:14 AM, Jerome E. Shidel Jr. <jer...@shidel.net>
wrote:

>
> > On Apr 4, 2016, at 8:00 AM, Jim Hall <jh...@freedos.org> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks! I'll try it out tonight.
> >
> > I didn't see the link for the USB image, but I see that it is there. I
> saw the link for Download and the link for Latest, then a bunch of text
> that I didn't read. My bad. ;-)
>
> No problem.
>
> My CMS is only setup to have multiple versions on the Floppy Image.
> The USB images are always the latest FDI and are not versioned.
>
> For the current 4/3/16 images, just remember to add that line of text to
> FDITEMP.BAT.
>
> > For now, the lockup can be avoided by adding
> >
> > goto IsDOSBox
> >
> > at line 26 in the \FDSETUP\SETUP\FDITEMP.BAT portion of FDI.
> > This will cause FDI to just assume RAM DISK creation for initial
> > temporary storage has failed and will proceed with the installation
> > process. FDI will still function like this. However, a few things will
> > not automatically be handled for the user.
>
> Running installer under QEMU….
>
> > qemu-system-i386 -m 32M -hda FDI-USB.img -hdb drivec.img
> >
> > then after install
> >
> > qemu-system-i386 -m 32M -hda drivec.img
>
> At present, I’m looking into detecting QEMU so I don’t have to drop
> the blank drive auto partitioning in Normal mode.
>
> Thanks, Jerome
>
>
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