Re: [Freedos-user] Can't install FreeDOS

On 3/15/2020 11:08 AM, Rugxulo wrote: My 486s, back in the day, were quite slow and underpowered (Sx/25 with either 4 or 8 MB RAM and small hard drives [170 MB or 250 MB or such]). In some ways, I wish I had one again (in fully working order), just to benchmark stuff. It seems like one of the

Re: [Freedos-user] Can't install FreeDOS

Is the problem not having floppy capability on real hardware? Maybe you have USB but not ATAPI cdrom? Freedos as far as I know does not support USB let alone USB floppy drives. If you don't have IDE or you have an external USB drive such as a DVD burner... that doesn't help you get it instal

Re: [Freedos-user] Can't install FreeDOS

On Sun, Mar 15, 2020 at 7:28 AM ZB wrote: > On Sat, Mar 14, 2020 at 12:47:33AM -0500, Rugxulo wrote: > > > It's amazing to me that so many people still use 486s with FreeDOS. > > For most DOS applications 486 is kind of "numbercruncher" - and, besides, > if you use Intel 486 CPU you'll get fanless

Re: [Freedos-user] Can't install FreeDOS

Hi, On Sun, Mar 15, 2020 at 6:28 AM ZB wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 14, 2020 at 12:47:33AM -0500, Rugxulo wrote: > > It's amazing to me that so many people still use 486s with FreeDOS. > > For most DOS applications 486 is kind of "numbercruncher" My 486s, back in the day, were quite slow and underpowe

Re: [Freedos-user] Can't install FreeDOS

On Sat, Mar 14, 2020 at 12:47:33AM -0500, Rugxulo wrote: > It's amazing to me that so many people still use 486s with FreeDOS. For most DOS applications 486 is kind of "numbercruncher" - and, besides, if you use Intel 486 CPU you'll get fanless "silent PC" (AMD 486 requires fan; I mean at least t

Re: [Freedos-user] Can't install FreeDOS

I booted from floppy On Sun, Mar 15, 2020, 02:45 tom ehlert wrote: > > Regrettably, I ran into another problem: apparently the CD I burned was > > roughed up too badly for the installation to complete. It died while > > trying to install UDVD2, due to a read error. And that was my last > > CD-

Re: [Freedos-user] Can't install FreeDOS

> Regrettably, I ran into another problem: apparently the CD I burned was > roughed up too badly for the installation to complete.  It died while > trying to install UDVD2, due to a read error.  And that was my last > CD-R.  as you don't describe in detail what you did we can only guess :<< most

Re: [Freedos-user] Can't install FreeDOS

On 3/13/2020 10:52 PM, Mallory Worlton wrote: Regrettably, I ran into another problem: apparently the CD I burned was roughed up too badly for the installation to complete.  It died while trying to install UDVD2, due to a read error.  And that was my last CD-R.  So I'll have to go buy some more

Re: [Freedos-user] Can't install FreeDOS

Regrettably, I ran into another problem: apparently the CD I burned was roughed up too badly for the installation to complete.  It died while trying to install UDVD2, due to a read error.  And that was my last CD-R.  So I'll have to go buy some more and make a new one. On 2020-03-13 10:47 p.m.

Re: [Freedos-user] Can't install FreeDOS

Hi, On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 6:42 PM Mallory Worlton wrote: > > My computer is a Dell Optiplex 433/L with 16 MB of RAM and a 486 > processor. It's amazing to me that so many people still use 486s with FreeDOS. Those must've been built like tanks. (Mine, sadly, is disconnected.) > It has a 270 MB

Re: [Freedos-user] Can't install FreeDOS

I did some digging and found appropriate drivers.  I am now installing FreeDOS.  Thank you all for your assistance. On 2020-03-13 5:04 p.m., ZB wrote: On Sat, Mar 14, 2020 at 12:46:28AM +0100, Eric Auer wrote: CD-ROM connected to controllers on the sound card might be overlooked by generic dr

Re: [Freedos-user] Can't install FreeDOS

On Sat, Mar 14, 2020 at 12:46:28AM +0100, Eric Auer wrote: > CD-ROM connected to controllers on the sound card > might be overlooked by generic drivers. They usually _will_ be "overlooked" - unless such soundcard has a jumper, that can make the storage device, connected to its controller, bootabl

Re: [Freedos-user] Can't install FreeDOS

Hi! CD-ROM connected to controllers on the sound card might be overlooked by generic drivers. Try to boot using a floppy where you can manually add specific drivers for your CD-ROM. If you already have another DOS on the computer anyway, you can boot *that* and then invoke the installer on the CD

[Freedos-user] Can't install FreeDOS

My computer is a Dell Optiplex 433/L with 16 MB of RAM and a 486 processor.  It has a 270 MB hard drive, a floppy drive, and a CD drive.  The CD drive is connected through my sound card, a Sound Blaster Pro 2.  The installer can't seem to find my CD drive.  How can I fix this? __

Re: [Freedos-user] Can't Install; FreeDOS 1.1 test release #2

I have been installing FreeDOS a lot, the only thing that works ALLWAYS including USB CDs, is what I describel in a message 15june2011... Then I can have a huge A: (I made it with bytes) with all that I need. There is no way to make something that recognizes the CD everywhere. Alain Em 20-07-2

Re: [Freedos-user] Can't Install; FreeDOS 1.1 test release #2

Op 20-7-2011 4:17, Virii schreef: >> What exactly goes wrong when you do what? >> At which step? Which error messages do you >> get, or do things hang? Crash? What sorts >> of everything did you try, what happened? > > It hangs at the language selection screen. The very bottom selection of the > ma

Re: [Freedos-user] Can't Install; FreeDOS 1.1 test release #2

> They works when I DEVLOAD them post boot-up, but the USB flash drive > steals the DVD-RW drive's letter (E:\ in my case). USBUHCI, and > USBDRIVE don't work at all for me. It not only wont load my USB > drives, it doesn't even find them. Strangely enough if I load them > before USBASPI/NJ32DISK,

Re: [Freedos-user] Can't Install; FreeDOS 1.1 test release #2

Hi, On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 10:17 AM, Virii wrote: > > It complained about a few missing packages like doslfn, wattcp, wget, ..., > but it installed. Can I just copy over the 'doslfn' from an older version's > disc, or is that feature compiled into kernel now? No LFNs in kernel (and still patent

Re: [Freedos-user] Can't Install; FreeDOS 1.1 test release #2

> What exactly goes wrong when you do what? > At which step? Which error messages do you > get, or do things hang? Crash? What sorts > of everything did you try, what happened? It hangs at the language selection screen. The very bottom selection of the main menu looks for a non-existent FDBOOTC

Re: [Freedos-user] Can't Install; FreeDOS 1.1 test release #2

Hi again, On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 7:25 AM, Bernd Blaauw wrote: > > Slightly offtopic: is there any foolproof way to automatically switch to > the location a batchfile is in? a kind of "CDD %0" except that %0 is > whatever you call it, instead of a full pathname. Same for TRUENAME %0 You might ne

Re: [Freedos-user] Can't Install; FreeDOS 1.1 test release #2

Op 20-7-2011 1:12, Eric Auer schreef: > What exactly goes wrong when you do what? > At which step? Which error messages do you > get, or do things hang? Crash? What sorts > of everything did you try, what happened? Lot's of stuff isn't functioning in the 2nd release, debugging that at the moment.

Re: [Freedos-user] Can't Install; FreeDOS 1.1 test release #2

Hi! > Has anyone had any luck installing this latest test release? > http://sourceforge.net/news/?group_id=5109&id=302138 > > I've tried everything from burning it to a disc, to mounting the boot > floppy/iso through Grub4Dos, and even rebuilding the iso. > > I read the readme.txt for the rele

[Freedos-user] Can't Install; FreeDOS 1.1 test release #2

Hi. Has anyone had any luck installing this latest test release? http://sourceforge.net/news/?group_id=5109&id=302138 I've tried everything from burning it to a disc, to mounting the boot floppy/iso through Grub4Dos, and even rebuilding the iso. I read the readme.txt for the release, but follo

Re: [Freedos-user] Can't install FreeDOS

My first guess is that you didn't choose wget for installation On 12/23/07, Rob Larkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > 'Can't install FreeDOS. > > I tried to report this to Bugzilla but I'm not getting the confirmation > email(s) when I try to set

Re: [Freedos-user] Can't install FreeDOS

Hi Rob, > I tried to report this to Bugzilla but I'm not getting the > email(s) when I try to set up an account. Read the yellow box on www.freedos.org/freedos/bugs/ - it says that you have to get the account from us humans :-) > Anyway, my problem... when the installation routine asks me my >

[Freedos-user] Can't install FreeDOS

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 'Can't install FreeDOS. I tried to report this to Bugzilla but I'm not getting the confirmation email(s) when I try to set up an account. Anyway, my problem... when the installation routine asks me my IP address I enter DHCP. The install responds: C

Re: [Freedos-user] Can't install FreeDos on extended partition?

That was it Bernd, partition was not set active. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bernd Blaauw Sent: Monday, August 06, 2007 12:49 PM To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Can't install FreeDos on ext

Re: [Freedos-user] Can't install FreeDos on extended partition?

Alex Horvath schreef: > Sorry for all the newbie posts - > > FreeDos did install but when I boot all I get is a "_" character and no > response to keyboard input. > > If I boot from the FreeDos CD I can the FreeDos files on C:. > > Anything I can check? > Let's see, a very basic installation ha

Re: [Freedos-user] Can't install FreeDos on extended partition?

PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alex Horvath Sent: Monday, August 06, 2007 12:27 PM To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Can't install FreeDos on extended partition? You're right about the partitions - it's been a while and I forgot. You're also right abo

Re: [Freedos-user] Can't install FreeDos on extended partition?

Hi Alex, > I created a small extended partition and formatted it as FAT using > Partition Magic. Note that you should not make it too small - it should not be FAT12 and it should not be 32 MB or less, if you ask me. Actually a full install can be around 150 MB :-). Extended partitions are a bit

Re: [Freedos-user] Can't install FreeDos on extended partition?

om: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bonnie Dalzell Sent: Monday, August 06, 2007 12:11 PM To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Can't install FreeDos on extended partition? On Mon, 6 Aug 2007, Alex Horvath wrote: AH >Hi, AH > AH >I

Re: [Freedos-user] Can't install FreeDos on extended partition?

Here are two links for emulators: * Virtual PC http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/virtualpc/default.mspx * VMWare server (free) http://www.vmware.com/products/server/ However, since you will be using FreeDOS to test hardware, you don't want to run an emulator. The host OS (Vist

Re: [Freedos-user] Can't install FreeDos on extended partition?

I recommend using a boot manager. There are several free ones out there: * GRUB * XOSL * GAG I haven't used them with FreeDOS (I use GRUB to boot my Linux box, but not dual-boot) but I know othe

Re: [Freedos-user] Can't install FreeDos on extended partition?

On Mon, 6 Aug 2007, Alex Horvath wrote: AH >Hi, AH > AH >I have a new Windows Vista laptop. I would like to install FreeDos on a AH >second partition and dual boot. AH > AH >I created a small extended partition and formatted it as FAT using AH >Partition Magic. AH >I then boot to the FreeDos CD

Re: [Freedos-user] Can't install FreeDos on extended partition?

ay, August 06, 2007 11:56 AM To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Can't install FreeDos on extended partition? Alex Horvath schreef: > Hi, > > I have a new Windows Vista laptop. I would like to install FreeDos on > a second partition and dual boot. > >

Re: [Freedos-user] Can't install FreeDos on extended partition?

Alex Horvath schreef: > Hi, > > I have a new Windows Vista laptop. I would like to install FreeDos on > a second partition and dual boot. > > I created a small extended partition and formatted it as FAT using > Partition Magic. > I then boot to the FreeDos CD and start the install process. >

[Freedos-user] Can't install FreeDos on extended partition?

Hi, I have a new Windows Vista laptop. I would like to install FreeDos on a second partition and dual boot. I created a small extended partition and formatted it as FAT using Partition Magic. I then boot to the FreeDos CD and start the install process. However, the FreeDos installer does not g