Re: [Freedos-user] Installation difficulties...

2009-03-20 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Eric Auer schrieb: > Hi, > >> Okay. I would really like to use FreeDOS, preferrably the full-install CD, >> and definitely with USB disk support. Problem is, the NIC in the computer I > > On modern PC, your BIOS already does USB disk support for you and DOS. You mean USB legacy support (for stor

Re: [Freedos-user] Installation difficulties...

2009-03-20 Thread Michael Reichenbach
John Ames schrieb: > Okay. I would really like to use FreeDOS, preferrably the full-install CD, > and definitely with USB disk support. Problem is, the NIC in the computer I > want to install it on (a 3Com 3C595-TX) does not appear to be recognized by > either the default packet driver or the manuf

Re: [Freedos-user] Installation difficulties...

2009-03-19 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, > Okay. I would really like to use FreeDOS, preferrably the full-install CD, > and definitely with USB disk support. Problem is, the NIC in the computer I On modern PC, your BIOS already does USB disk support for you and DOS. For the others, you can try the USB drivers made by Georg Potthast

[Freedos-user] Installation difficulties...

2009-03-19 Thread John Ames
Okay. I would really like to use FreeDOS, preferrably the full-install CD, and definitely with USB disk support. Problem is, the NIC in the computer I want to install it on (a 3Com 3C595-TX) does not appear to be recognized by either the default packet driver or the manufacturer's DOS driver, unles

RE: [Freedos-user] Installation Difficulties

2005-08-26 Thread Matthew Fisher
sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Installation Difficulties Matthew Fisher schreef: > Still stymied, but I don't actually think it's a hardware question. > After the install completes, on reboot it's not actually finding > anything to start up: everything is still in

Re: [Freedos-user] Installation Difficulties

2005-08-26 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Matthew Fisher schreef: Still stymied, but I don't actually think it's a hardware question. After the install completes, on reboot it's not actually finding anything to start up: everything is still in the C:\temp directory, and the post-install scripts aren't running. if I recall correctly,

Re: [Freedos-user] Installation Difficulties

2005-08-26 Thread Blair Campbell
> Still stymied, but I don't actually think it's a hardware question. After > the install completes, on reboot it's not actually finding anything to > start up: everything is still in the C:\temp directory, and the post-install > scripts aren't running. AFAIK, there are no post-install scripts r

RE: [Freedos-user] Installation Difficulties

2005-08-26 Thread Matthew Fisher
gust 26, 2005 12:08 PM To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [Freedos-user] Installation Difficulties Thanks for the quick response. There's no CD drive in the box, and not one available, so I can't avail myself of your experimental updated version. OK, clean install of

RE: [Freedos-user] Installation Difficulties

2005-08-26 Thread Matthew Fisher
s; perhaps that's where things are going wrong. Hmmm. Thanks again. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Blair Campbell Sent: Friday, August 26, 2005 11:41 AM To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Installati

Re: [Freedos-user] Installation Difficulties

2005-08-26 Thread Blair Campbell
> I've tried to sys c: /bootonly the drive, reformat the drive with and > without the /s option, and now I'm running into an "Unknown Previous DOS > operating system. Error level code: 3 3" error that simply halts the > FreeDOS install process. Don't use /bootonly; FreeDOS install sees a bootsect

[Freedos-user] Installation Difficulties

2005-08-26 Thread Matthew Fisher
I'm struggling to install FreeDos Beta9Sr1 on an old Pentium box with a new (refurbished) harddrive and no CD drive. Installing just the base packages from floppy works, but on startup from the harddrive, it simply sits there, harddrive not spinning, after the hardware checks. I've tried to sys c