Hello, all. I have not had cause to delve back into FreeDOS for some time, but I seem to be getting in elbow-deep again today. This post is both to give feedback on the current installation setup, and to ask what else I might have done.
I have a Power Mac 5400 with a PC Compatibility Card installed (100MHz processor, 8MB RAM, 1GB virtual drive). MS DOS 6.22 installs fine, but I wanted FreeDOS to work on it, so I booted to a DOS 6.22 floppy, formatted the virtual drive, and started over. My first attempt was with the FreeDOS 1.0 Full Distro bootable CD burned from ISO. The system did not recognize a bootable drive. I tried a Smart Boot Manager floppy to see if that would preempt the boot process and recognize the CD. It failed with a message like "Bad SMBK!" I created and booted from the current FD boot floppy, but that fails with a message like "No CD or wrong CD!" I modified the FD boot floppy to use the Mac's DOS driver for the CD (found in the PC Compatibility Card software), but it still failed with the same message. Then I copied FDFULLCD.ISO to C:\ and rebooted the FD boot floppy after undoing my changes for the Mac CD driver. It failed again with the same message. Finally I noticed that the FD boot floppy seemed to be looking for C:\FDBOOTCD.ISO rather than FDFULLCD.ISO (or perhaps FDBASECD.ISO). I renamed the ISO, rebooted, and a normal installation began. Granted, this is an unusual environment. But is there something else I could have done, say with the FD boot floppy, so that it would start the installation from the bootable CD rather than from C:\FDBOOTCD.ISO? Also, can someone tick off a list of updates to the various base packages in the 1.0 distro? --John Hupp ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
