I am having trouble installing FreeDOS on an ancient Toshiba laptop which has no CD drive, only a floppy. In the "Install" section of the wiki, also known as the FreeDOS Install HOWTO, I read:
"With the special boot diskette, you can even install on a PC which does not have a cdrom drive: Just copy the ISO image file (cdrom image) to a file called c:fdbootcd.iso and the installer boot diskette will "mount" that file. In other words, it will create a virtual cdrom in a virtual cdrom drive from it." The Toshiba has PC-DOS installed on a single FAT16 partition. By using an external Zip drive I copied FDFULLCD.ISO onto that partition, renamed it C:\FDBOOTCD.ISO and created a boot floppy by booting a live CD and using "menu". When booting from this floppy on the laptop, the ISO is not recognised as a virtual CD-ROM. In fact it looks as though the floppy won't do anything useful. It contains only 3 files: KERNEL.SYS, COMMAND.COM and FDCONFIG.SYS. FDCONFIG.SYS displays a menu but that's pretty much all it can do because it contains references to files in A:\DRIVER and to A:\FREEDOS\FDAUTO.BAT, none of which exist on the floppy. Is that boot floppy really as useless as it seems to be? Is there really a way of installing to a machine without a CD drive? Chris ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ EditLive Enterprise is the world's most technically advanced content authoring tool. Experience the power of Track Changes, Inline Image Editing and ensure content is compliant with Accessibility Checking. http://p.sf.net/sfu/ephox-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
