Apparently on your system the letters D:-G: are already assigned to something
(like maybe some USB drives or some extra partitions on the hard drive(s)?).
You can try seeing if anything exists on the D:-G: drives (e.g., by doing a "DIR
D:") and see if you can figure out what's going on.
Thank you for your answer Bret, it came in just as I figured out by what
was the
problem.
I installed FreeDOS using the LiveCD, which also partitioned my disk and
formatted the C drive.
Disabling the fdauto.bat and fdconfig.sys files I saw this message:
- InitDiskWARNING: using suspect partition Pri:1 FS 0b: with calculated
values
�261-254-63 instead of� 262-254-63
C: HD1, Pri[ 1], CHS=��� 0-1-1, start=���� 0 MB, size =� 2055 MB
WARNING: using suspect partition Pri:1 FS 0b: with calculated values�
523-254-63
�instead of� 524-254-63
D: HD1, Ext[ 1], CHS=� 262-1-1, start=� 2055 MB, size =� 2055 MB
WARNING: using suspect partition Ext:2 FS 0b: with calculated values�
785-254-63
�instead of� 786-254-63
E: HD1, Ext[ 2], CHS=� 524-1-1, start=� 4110 MB, size =� 2055 MB
WARNING: using suspect partition Ext:3 FS 0c: with calculated values
1024-254-63
�instead of�� 24-254-63
F: HD1, Ext[ 3], CHS=� 786-1-1, start=� 6165 MB, size =� 2055 MB
WARNING: using suspect partition Ext:4 FS 0c: with calculated values
1304-254-63
�instead of� 281-254-63
G: HD1, Ext[ 4], CHS= 1048-1-1, start=� 8220 MB, size =� 2015 MB
I don't know if the warning is normal, but from what I could check, the
FreeDOS LiveCD installer by default doesn't create a single FAT32
partition (10
GB HDD), but instead it creates a single 2048 MB primary partition,
formatted
FAT32, and four 2 GB logical partitions, and it doesn't format them.
Since the partitions aren't formatted, FreeDOS doesn't mount them, but
it still
assigns them a letter, and that explains why I had this problem. I didn't
expect this to be the default behavior, that's why I didn't check the HDD
partition table to see what was going on.
To solve this, after deleting the partition table, I booted the LiveCD and
repartitioned the disk using fdisk. It created a single 10 GB partition
which I
later formatted to FAT32 with the included format.exe.
After that, the installation went flawlessly and the problem was solved.
It would make more sense if the installer made a single FAT16 2 GB
partition, or
used the whole disk to create a FAT32 partition. The crucial bit is not to
silently create the four logical partitions and also leave them unformatted.
I suggest that there should be an option to let the user decide what to do
between these two options or something else.
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