Hi again, On Sun, Jul 17, 2016 at 7:21 PM, Dimitris Zilaskos <dimitr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I am trying to install FreeDOS on my old 486. > > Versions 1.1 and 1.2 floppy bootdisks either hang on boot printing odd > characters or will not detect the CDROM.
As mentioned, CD-ROM may not be well-supported by default. You may have to find your own (legacy, proprietary, hardware-specific) DOS driver elsewhere (on random third-party site). Unavoidable. > System is a 486DX4-100, 32 MB RAM. VESA Local Bus controller with primary IDE > loaded with 2 HDD - 6 GB and 4 GB, secondary IDE the CDROM. BIOS supports > boot only from floppy and hdd. Have you not tried Smart Boot Manager? It may let you boot from CD: http://btmgr.sourceforge.net/about.html > Is there a recommended strategy to get FreeDOS installed on such an ancient > system? Did some research and tried several bootdisks that float around, > nothing worked quite like FreeDOS 1.0. Just FYI, there's nothing hugely special about FD 1.0, it's roughly the same. If you want to swap out shell (FreeCOM 0.84-pre2 XMS_Swap) or kernel (2036) for different versions, it might help (but might not). https://sourceforge.net/projects/freedos/files/ http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/kernel/ http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/command/ Not sure why HIMEMX would be failing. Also not sure how to isolate what is going on there. Well, I'm not maintainer anyways (not sure there is one, actively anyways). So here's an old floppy of mine, for comparison, yet another to try, if you really want a different alternative: https://sites.google.com/site/rugxulo/BARE_DOS.ZIP?attredirects=0 https://sites.google.com/site/rugxulo/bare_dos.txt?attredirects=0 To be honest, floppy doesn't get a lot of attention anymore, even from me. I would also (maybe?) point you to others of mine, but they use HIMEMX, and you'd have to manually modify it to avoid that, so that's probably not a good suggestion right now. BTW, do you know exactly which version of HimemX you're using here? 3.32, perhaps??? Latest is probably here, so it might be worth trying instead (rare chance, but anyways): https://sourceforge.net/projects/himemx/files/v3.34/himemx.zip/download ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What NetFlow Analyzer can do for you? Monitors network bandwidth and traffic patterns at an interface-level. Reveals which users, apps, and protocols are consuming the most bandwidth. Provides multi-vendor support for NetFlow, J-Flow, sFlow and other flows. Make informed decisions using capacity planning reports.http://sdm.link/zohodev2dev _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
