Hi, I am sorry that the known bugs in the install CD have not been fixed yet. A solution should be to use another config sys menu item than the default: As soon as the DOS kernel boots, you have to select option 1 or 4, because the default option 3 tries to be too clever about automatically configuring things, usually resulting in invalid opcodes. I think the menu is only shown for two seconds, but when you KNOW that you have to select option 1, two seconds will be enough ;-)
When booting from floppy (which should not be necessary), you should use smart boot manager to continue the boot from cdrom. As said, this is only needed when your BIOS cannot boot directly from cdrom. The option to do most of the booting from floppy and open the cdrom with atapicdd is not recommended. By now, you can use the better xcdrom or qcdrom drivers - much better than atapicdd - but booting from the cdrom itself is a lot simpler. Installing from diskettes is indeed only supported for the old beta9sr1 distro and will be supported again in beta9sr3. This is partly because for diskette users, the "many good FreeDOS components on a single diskette" distro ODIN is a better choice than having to deal with a pile of diskettes. Note that ODIN does not contain an automated installer: Simply copy the files to a directory on your harddisk, do the usual SYS C:, all the classic manual install :-). You can normally get ODIN "7.2 beta 5" from http://xdev.codigolivre.org.br/odin/ but I am having connection problems with Brazil at the moment: If you have the same problem, I can put a copy on my own homepage :-). Last but not least, Blair from Canada has a big 100 MB (the version with sources is 200 MB) FreeDOS CDROM distro, might be interesting as well 8-). Enjoy, and let us know if the above hints solved your problem! Eric > Hitting walls while attempting to install FreeDOS beta9 sr#2. > From the full install CD it hangs with 5 Invalid Opcode errors. > ... > Booting with freedos boot floppy and installing from CD: Setup can't find a > cdrom device. I choose #1 (ATAPICDD.SYS)... > ... > Attempted to install using only diskettes. > ... > ends up with A:\ prompt with "Some files not found. Aborting setup... > This is silly. I have recently installed more than several versions of DOS > on this system and had no problems what so ever. > ... > Any ideas what I could be doing wrong? You are not doing things wrong. We are. ------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
