At the risk of being redundant, I'll add some comments here: On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 4:48 AM, JPT <j.p...@gmx.net> wrote: > > You have to subscribe to this list, to be able to post? > Ok, I did so and sent my email again... > > I try to install Freedos on a P3-800, Asus Cubx board, Intel i440BX > chip, 384MB of RAM. And I am frustrated by now. :(
Sounds like a good setup. Sorry you've had troubles, though. Hardware is annoying sometimes. :-( EDIT: Dare I ask, but what OS did this machine run originally? Win98? WinXP? Have you tried any others lately (Haiku, Linux)? > I got about 30 crashes. Whoa, that's way too many, that's not normal. You probably made a few mistakes (or ran into a few corner cases). I don't think that's ideal, so you can probably minimize most (all?) of that with careful planning. > I was able to solve some of them, but... > If the install is that instable, what about the system? > Is it wise to uses freedos 1.0 for production environment? "Production" meaning what? Dunno, not sure it's been verified for military use. ^_^ Anyways, to be honest, 1.0 is "old" (!), from 2006, so try upgrading to latest stuff (not quite 1.1 but very close). > May I use FAT32 for primary partition? else the drive will already be > heavily loaded after installation... Yes, FAT32 should work fine. > Crashes for example > - on installation bootup freecom loading crashes, if drive C is not > formatted. which prevents formatting... You're booting from CD, I presume? Basically, you need to "fdisk" (create active primary FAT partition), reboot, "format", "sys a: c:" (which copies kernel, command, and boot sector), and then add whatever. > - the floppy created from the installation menu does not boot at all (3 > dots is all i get) Probably just old versions. But also try F8 to minimize some things that may be causing problems. > - installation in oracle virtualbox seems not to be able to load the > network driver correctly. which hardware should I select in the VB config? I've not (yet) used VirtualBox with FreeDOS + networking, but I *think* AMDPD.ZIP is your friend here. > - installation crashes with some memory error while installing some > packages... Weird, shouldn't do that. Well, just try installing manually. And if you try again (not suggested, but ...), please tell us the exact error message (or others). > Yes, I did successfully run memtest and harddrive tests. Good to know. > Do you have any idea how to successfully install Freedos? > Should I try the 1.1 installer? But the 1.1 iso image does not contain > all packages? Considering all the trouble you had, and considering that 1.1 test #3 is "latest", you should probably try that. Else just install manually. I almost want to suggest you just boot a minimal floppy to see how well that goes. It would also help to know what big apps you've tried (or primarily want) to run, just to know what you expect to work. > Is there something like a package manager, you may invoke after > successfull installation? In this case, I might try a minimal > installation, and install the other packages in several iterations... Yes, barely, but I'm not sure it's updated. At least I never used it. And the repo is outdated. I would suggest just manually adding what you want. But first try 1.1 test #3. Or not, who cares, it's your life. ;-) EDIT: Oh yeah, you'd need working network, that's kinda arcane. But if it works (by some miracle) .... > thank you very much :) Keep us posted. And do post precise error messages and details (if possible). (combining e-mails): >>> - installation in oracle virtualbox seems not to be able to load the >>> network driver correctly. which hardware should I select in the VB config? >> >> AMD PCNET or NE2000 likely, maybe the Intel card. I haven't got much >> experience with VirtualBox, sorry. > > I found a lot of docs on network. I start with Barts network bootdisk > now, to find a working driver. after that, I check Freedos networking again. "pcisleep l q02" (or something like that, I may be remembering incorrectly) and checking http://pciids.sf.net online should help. Or use "dmesg" under Linux. Or try Georg's NICSCAN. http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/system/pcisleep/ http://www.georgpotthast.de/sioux/packet.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Got Input? Slashdot Needs You. Take our quick survey online. Come on, we don't ask for help often. Plus, you'll get a chance to win $100 to spend on ThinkGeek. http://p.sf.net/sfu/slashdot-survey _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
