Hello together, From looking into your CD driver loading process, I've followed it's at least somewhat intended to be used as I did. So here is what I did after downloading FD13-LegacyCD.zip (DEV0 of 20220204). With Linux I've customised the contained FD13LGCY.iso to include AHCI.SYS from HP [1,2] instead of AHCICD.SYS from Rudolph R. Loew. What follows are the commands I've typed on the unix shell. Note, isoinfo shows a line containing Bootoff and two numbers. The latter number will be used to mount the boot-floppy inside the image by means of an offset, here 151. > $ wget 'https://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp39501-40000/sp39596.exe' > $ cabextract sp39596.exe > $ unzip FD13-LegacyCD.zip > $ isoinfo -d -i FD13LGCY.iso|grep Bootoff > $ sudo mount -o offset=$((2048*151)) FD13LGCY.iso /mnt > $ sudo cp files/ahci.sys /mnt/freedos/bin/ahcicd.sys > $ sudo umount /mnt > $ cdrecord FD13LGCY.iso Now, my optical drive is detected successfully. Yet default installer failed and rebooting didn't help. After returning to DOS it showed: > Error: Unable to install 'base\kernel' package. The CD is clearly accessible, since I could navigate there with CD and DIR. Examining the result, I've noticed C:\FREEDOS\BIN\SETVER.SYS with 109 byte and empty C:\FREEDOS\DOC\KERNEL\. Otherwise there wre only a few folders and C:\FREEDOS\PACKAGES\KERNEL.LST around. After rebooting I've tried to use the Floppy Installer. Therefore, immediately returned to DOS, navigated to its location and did the following: > D:\FDOS_X86>SETUP Which went on successfully for quite a while and then failed with: > Install FreeDOS files for i686 > > File Slicer Express, Versionn 0.23 (BETA) > Copyright (c) 2019-2022, Jerome Shidel > > FATAL ERROR: error code #21, unsepcified error with > "D:\FDOS_X86\SLICED\FREEDOS.SAF" > Failed. > > CRITICAL error: Problem occured while extracting > D:\FDOS_X86\SLICED\FREEDOS.SAF > > The installation of FreeDOS 1.3 has been aborted. The result was looking quite differently this time. In C:\ I've found shell, kernel and config files. It was even bootable, yet in C:\FREEDOS\BIN there were only a few files, mostly named V*.COM. Contrary to LegacyCD, same date LiveCD booted with ELTORITO.SYS and both installers worked seemless. Therefore, I wonder what went wrong with this driver. What do you think can I do about it? Thank you. [1] 'https://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp39501-40000/sp39596.html' [2] 'https://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp39501-40000/sp39596.exe <https://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp39501-40000/sp39596.exe>'
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