Re: [Freedos-user] freedos installation disk space requirements - was: Some driver updates

> On Nov 8, 2017, at 2:40 PM, Eric Auer wrote: > > > Hi Jerome, > >> Maybe the installer should just assume FULL install + sources > > Not really. Almost nobody installs all sources at the same time > and I would not even want the option in the installer: Instead, > I

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos installation disk space requirements - was: Some driver updates

Hi Jerome, > Maybe the installer should just assume FULL install + sources Not really. Almost nobody installs all sources at the same time and I would not even want the option in the installer: Instead, I prefer to have the option to install + PACKAGES with sources. Then I can unzip only those

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos installation disk space requirements - was: Some driver updates

I see a lot of assume this, assume that, plus a little of roughly this... Maybe the installer should just assume FULL install + sources + (2x) old OS backup + 1-5MB safety margin at startup. If there is not that much space, tell user the error and stop. Like several other dangerous

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos installation disk space requirements - was: Some driver updates

Hi Jerome, >> Start with Base. > Can’t. If user is doing a custom install Yes you can ;-) Base install will be a common choice, so it is good if you can at least predict how much disk space is required for THAT. I think this also is exactly why Robert wrote START with base: You can always try

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos installation disk space requirements - was: Some driver updates

Hi Robert :-) >> Base size, >> Base + sources size, >> Full size, >> Full + sources size, >> All package sizes (custom advanced mode) >> All packages + sources sizes, > Start with Base. Actually I would suggest to never install complete categories WITH SOURCE. Just install sources of

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS installation using VirtualBox

Hi, On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 6:05 PM, francisco ramirez wrote: > > Today, I turned on the system and when I click on START in VirtualBox to > start the FreeDOS I get the following error message: > > Failed to open a session for the virtual machine FreeDOS. > > The

[Freedos-user] FreeDOS installation using VirtualBox

Finally managed to complete the installation of FreeDOS under VirtualBox.I ran it successfully a few times.Today, I turned on the system and when I click on START in VirtualBox to start the FreeDOS I get the following error message: Failed to open a session for the virtual machine FreeDOS. The

[Freedos-user] Freedos Installation

Hello I tried to install Freedos 1.0 on a SD card using Unetbootin. I used the Freedos from the drop down menu of the latest Unetbootin version and ran the process to write it on the SD card. After completion the install manager asked me for a reboot which I did. The Freedos program ran correctly

[Freedos-user] freedos installation dhcp problem

hello, I am trying to install freedos on a mac using virtualbox. everything goes good until I get to the dhcp setup line. I chose option 1. use default dhcp for wattcp.cfg but the install hangs with ...no nameserver defined. just got a new laptop, and can't remember how I got around this

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos installation using usb drive

help.Gabriel Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 21:43:58 +0100 From: e.a...@jpberlin.de To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] freedos installation using usb drive Hi! Yes I have an IDE drive and a usb cdrom. My BIOS is able to boot USB. Good... I guess what I'm looking

[Freedos-user] freedos installation using usb drive

hello all, I don't have a floppy drive and my pc won't detect my usb based cdrom drive. Can I install freedos onto a usb drive and then onto my hard dive from the usb drive? I extracted the freedos cdrom image onto the usb drive and that did'nt work properly.regardsGabriel

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos installation using usb drive

That depends. First, go into your BIOS and see if it supports booting from USB; you should be able to find this out by going into the Boot Order menu. If there's a USB option, then yes, you probably can; otherwise, no, you'll have to find a floppy drive somewhere. If your computer is new enough

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos installation using usb drive

- You have no floppy. - You have IDE harddisk? - You have USB CD-ROM. - You have no legacy CD-ROM? There was a similar question recently... http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=6599 First you must tell us if you are able to boot from USB. Does your BIOS have options to boot USB?

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos installation using usb drive

Dec 2008 18:40:02 +0100 From: michael_reichenb...@freenet.de To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] freedos installation using usb drive - You have no floppy. - You have IDE harddisk? - You have USB CD-ROM. - You have no legacy CD-ROM? There was a similar question

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos installation using usb drive

Hi! Yes I have an IDE drive and a usb cdrom. My BIOS is able to boot USB. Good... I guess what I'm looking for is a usb image of FreeDos. then I can make the IDE disk the active partition and install XP. There is no USB image because USB sticks all have different sizes. But there are

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos installation using usb drive

  If you do not have a CD drive for your PC, then it would be useful to buy a USB CD or DVD-RW drive. It is always useful, so it is not a waste of money. You can use later for a lot of interesting things. And it is not very expensive, around 100 RON in Romania, so 32 dollars.   I have Freedos

[Freedos-user] FreeDOS installation ISOs

Hi there ... just a quick query: what is the difference between the files/distributions/1.0 and files/distributions/1.0/3sep2006 ..except the latter contains zipped files. Does the former contain more up-to-date ISOs? Thanks Simon

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS installation ISOs

Hi! what is the difference between the files/distributions/1.0 and files/distributions/1.0/3sep2006 ... except the latter contains zipped files. Does the former contain more up-to-date ISOs? There was an error in the ISOLINUX config of our ISOs so Jim remastered them. The files

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos installation on dos partition on linux system

--chris http://nxdos.sourceforge.net/ Original Message Subject: [Freedos-user] freedos installation on dos partition on linux system From: Bonnie Dalzell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, March 22, 2007 6:06 pm To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net the freedos installation

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos installation on dos partition on linux system

Hi Bonnie, I recommend to use a normal file, not /dev/fd0, to save the mbr. Of course you should put a copy of the file in a place where you can reach it if your Linux cannot boot from harddisk. To backup the mbr of the second harddisk, use /dev/hdb instead of /dev/hda, and so on. a / b are

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos installation on dos partition on linux system

On Fri, 23 Mar 2007, Eric Auer wrote: Thank you for your replies. My main harddrive was set up this way: hda1 a fat 32 1/gig partition - no os in it hda2 - a hardfile for use with the x86 amiga OS emulator AMIthlon hda3 - ubuntu gnu/linux ext3 hda4 - linux swap the boot for the system is out of

[Freedos-user] freedos installation on dos partition on linux system

when i first tried freedos i took and extra harddrive an put it in a removable drive drawer and installed it as the only os on that drive.then i can boot into it by using the bios to choose to boot off of ide2. however my main harddrive has a dos formatted partition which is large enough for

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos installation

James, I'm not sure if you really got all your partitions right. The most common configuration is as follows. You can have up to three primary partitions and one logical partition. Each primary partition can be made active or bootable (which means the same thing). Most operating systems

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos installation

Hi! 4-Июн-2006 04:00 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lester Vedrox) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: LV You can have up to three primary partitions and one logical partition. Wrong. To be precise: 4 primary partitions or up to 3 primary partitions and one

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos installation

Thanks to your tip I was able to capture the error message: -- C: HD1, Pri[1],CHS= 0-1-1,start= 0 MB,size= 1027 MB D: HD2, Pri[2],CHS= 0-1-1,start= 0 MB,size= 3380 MB IO error: cylinder 1023 IO error: cylinder 1023 Press F8 to

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS installation gone wrong

Let us hope the MBR is not screwed up and it doesn't sound like it is. Next time save the MBR before doing OS installs if you have a boot loader which I think you do. If you reinstall Windows, it will overwrite the MBR and you might have a hard time booting to Linux. Having said all the above

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS installation gone wrong

16 BIT schreef: Having said all the above ... I think this will fix your problem. 16BIT, you're completely correct. create a Win98 bootdisk (or whatever Windows version you are using), with SYS.COM on it. then boot from it, backup MSDOS.SYS ( COPY C:\MSDOS.SYS C:\MSDOS.BAK) then copy over the

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS installation gone wrong

to FreeDOS! :) Thanks, Rakhesh - Original message - From: B or J Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 17:14:25 +1000 Subject: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS installation gone wrong Hello, I have just installed FreeDOS on my duel boot Windows / Linux PC. I