Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS beta9 sr#2 install troubles

[Lester Vedrox]

First, let me assure you that once you get through the installation the OS 
itself (FreeDOS) runs great.

If you created a bootable CD from file "fdbootcd.iso" (12.5 MB) then this 
installation apparently runs ok on some systems and is a nuisance on others. I 
only managed to install FreeDOS from this iso after exercising extreme patience 
and determination. Here are a few tips, hopefully they will work on your 
computer.

-
1) Create FAT32 primary partition (any size) and make it "primary active"

2) Boot from Installation CD (it's full of bugs so be a little patient)
- if you have a boot manager you might have to Ctrl+Alt+Del
- screen 1 (with fish):  ENT
- screen 2 (full of text):  no action
- screen 3 (with two lines):  hit "C"
- wait until screen 6 comes up (it will have four options). If it doesn't come 
up then you are stuck at screen 4: hit ENT and wait
- select option 2 (Run from CD)

3) Run file "install.exe" (let's say CD is on drive X):
X:\FREEDOS\SETUP\INSTALL\INSTALL.EXE
- general protection fault - INSTALL - ENT - first "Graphic Option"
- full installation
- overwrite = Yes To All (use TAB key)
- disregard all errors and suggestions to abort installation
- update the boot sector: C:\>  SYS C: C: /BOOTONLY
- end of setup

4) Update the following files from the web
a) command.com
- try ver. 84-pre, in case of problems use earlier ver. 82
- ver. 0.84-pre XMS swap (67 KB, date?): http://fdos.org/kernel/cmdxms.HEAD.zip
- ver. 0.82 pl 3 (92 KB, Dec 10 2003): 
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/freedos/com082pl3-xmsswap.zip?download
- to verify the version: C:\>  VER - Ent
b) kernel.sys
- if you have a new computer then here is the latest "development" version: 
http://fdos.org/kernel/kwc8632.dev.zip
- if you have an older machine or prefer to use "stable" version then go here: 
http://fdos.org/kernel/
c) sys.com
- there are two versions, both seem to be working ok: ver. 3.6 and 3.6a. I 
can't find download urls, may be someone else can help
- to check the version: C:\>  SYS /?
- to check configuration: C:\>  SYS CONFIG
- if you decide to change the version then update the boot sector again: C:\>  
SYS C: C: /BOOTONLY

5) Update all drivers as needed. Here are a few URLs
a) FreeDOS: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/
b) third party
- CD-ROM: http://johnson.tmfc.net/dos/
- USB: http://www.bootdisk.com/usb.htm
- http://www.geocities.com/jadoxa/
- http://www.uwe-sieber.de/english.html

6) You might also try this replacement for DIR command: 
http://www.c-shore.com/maxdir/

7) Here is example of Config.sys and Autoexec.bat that includes "third party" 
drivers:

Config.sys

FILES=50
BREAK=ON
STACKS=0,0
LASTDRIVE=Z
BUFFERS=20,0
NUMLOCK=OFF
DOS=HIGH,UMB
DOSDATA=UMB

DEVICE=C:\FDOS\BIN\FDXXMS.SYS BIOS NUMHANDLES=128
DEVICE=C:\FDOS\BIN\UMBPCI.SYS
DEVICEHIGH=C:\FDOS\BIN\QCDROM.SYS /D:CDROM1
DEVICEHIGH=C:\FDOS\BIN\CDRCACHE.SYS CDROM1 CDRCACH$ 12
DEVICEHIGH=C:\FDOS\BIN\TDSK.EXE 8192
DEVICEHIGH=C:\FDOS\BIN\NANSI.SYS /S
INSTALLHIGH=C:\FDOS\BIN\LBACACHE.COM 8192
SHELL=C:\COMMAND.COM /P=C:\FDAUTO.BAT

Autoexec.bat

@ECHO OFF
PROMPT $P$G
SET DOSDIR=C:\FDOS
SET NLSDIR=%DOSDIR%\NLS
SET HELPPATH=%DOSDIR%\HELP
SET PATH=%DOSDIR%\BIN
SET TEMP=%DOSDIR%\TEMP
SET TMP=%DOSDIR%\TEMP
SET DIRCMD=/P /OG /A
SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 H5 P330
SHCDX33A /D:?CDRCACH$ /V /~+ /Q+
CTMOUSE.EXE
ECHO CuteMouse Driver Loaded
FREE.EXE


Hope this helps,
Lester


> - Original Message -
> From: "Carl Spitzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS beta9 sr#2 install troubles
> 
> > This is silly. I have recently installed more than several versions of DOS
> > on this system and had no problems what so ever. ... FreeDOS is the only 
> > one to give me trouble.
> >
> > Any ideas what I could be doing wrong?


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Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS beta9 sr#2 install troubles

[Lester Vedrox]

Ooops, I've just noticed that I included Free.exe as the last line in the 
example of Autoexec.bat. You can simply delete this line. Free.exe is not 
integral part of FreeDOS, it's just a third party add-on. It shows all the 
drives and drive space. If you choose to try it out it's here:

http://www.salokin.demon.co.uk/dos_utils.htm

ftp://ftp.demon.co.uk/pub/simtelnet/msdos/diskutil/dfree36a.zip

Lester


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Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

[Jim Hall]

My first thought was that this person was trying to subscribe to the 
list.  But since you can only post to the list IF YOU ARE A MEMBER of 
the list, I realized this was a silly thought.  :-)


Maybe this person is testing that they are (still) subscribed to the 
list by sending a test email.


-jh


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Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

[Arkady V.Belousov]

Hi!

26-Май-2006 07:35 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Hall) wrote to
freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net:

JH> list.  But since you can only post to the list IF YOU ARE A MEMBER of

 2Jim: Jim, one my letter to freedos-devel waits your approval, because
I "not member of a group". What wrong?

 2Blair: I wait your answer, how to upload archives to you.

 2Bart: There is new files (in compare with OW 1.3), for which I don't 
know, which archive is more suitable for them. If you have advise about 
them (or have listing, how to split files between archive _for 1.5_), I 
wait your answer.



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Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

[Jim Hall]

...


 2Jim: Jim, one my letter to freedos-devel waits your approval, 
because

I "not member of a group". What wrong?


I haven't done list approval in a long time, because there are so many 
spam emails that show up every day (all requiring approval because they 
are "not on the list") and it's very tedious to go through the web 
interface to approve/disapprove them.


-jh


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[Freedos-user] Bug Report (sorry I don't know how to use bugzilla)

[Johnson Lam]

Dear All,

I've bought a Compact Flash adapter (direct connect to IDE), and I try
to make the CF card bootable.

Then I found that the FDISK of FreeDOS having some problem, it can
create the FAT16 partition (it's a 128MB card only), but won't able to
make it bootable until I use MS-DOS's FDISK, then format with FreeDOS
format with "/s".

Maybe someone can solve this problem, I found the FDISK having problem
in creating hard disk partition also, not only the CF card.


Rgds,
Johnson.


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[Freedos-user] Distributions (Mpxplay)

[Florian Xaver]

Hi!

I wrote with the author of Mpxplay. He said, that there are very few 
downloads, so he wants to develope a windows version.


What do you think of including Mpxplay in all FreeDOS distributions?
So that maybe more people would use it. And it would sound cool: 
"...with mp3,ogg and wmv player..." ;-)


I asked him, and he allowed it.

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[Freedos-user] Problems installing FreeDOS Beta 9 Sr2

[Magnus Wild]

hello!
I have problems installing FreeDOS Beta 9 Sr2 on my old AST bravo 
(486DX2 @ 66 mhz, 12MB ram). This is what happends:


I have a cd-rom drive, but i can't boot from it, and the FreeDOS install 
doesnt seem to identify it either, so i figured that a floppy install 
would be the easies way to go.


I've downloaded the diskset and written them to formatted floppies, they 
boot fine, but at a certain point in the installation; when it calls 
something like "textinstall". It says that i can't find "textinstall" 
and drops me to the prompt.


What to do? I have this problem on all computers i've been trying to 
install with floppies on.. Is this a bug, and then is it possible to fix 
it..?



Many thanks from Magnus


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Re: [Freedos-user] Distributions (Mpxplay)

[Blair Campbell]

What do you think of including Mpxplay in all FreeDOS distributions?
So that maybe more people would use it. And it would sound cool:
"...with mp3,ogg and wmv player..." ;-)


In case you didn't know, it's already on my distro linked to from
blairdude.googlepages.com

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Re: [Freedos-user] Distributions (Mpxplay)

[Blair Campbell]

What do you think of including Mpxplay in all FreeDOS distributions?
So that maybe more people would use it. And it would sound cool:
"...with mp3,ogg and wmv player..." ;-)


In case you didn't know, it's already on my distro linked to from
blairdude.googlepages.com

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Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

[Blair Campbell]

  2Blair: I wait your answer, how to upload archives to you.


Every time I e-mail you, it bounces

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Re: [Freedos-user] Distributions (Mpxplay)

[dima]

On Fri, 26 May 2006, Florian Xaver wrote:

> I wrote with the author of Mpxplay. He said, that there are very few
> downloads, so he wants to develope a windows version.
> What do you think of including Mpxplay in all FreeDOS distributions?

Good idea.

> So that maybe more people would use it. And it would sound cool: "...with
> mp3,ogg and wmv player..." ;-)
> I asked him, and he allowed it.

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