Aleve Sicofante schreef op 22-4-2013 2:07: > Thanks Jeremy and thanks to Felix too. I think at this point I should > paint the whole picture, so you guys get a better idea. > > I bought a 2.5" drive enclosure from Zalman, the VE-300, that acts as > two devices in one: it shows itself to the system as two devices: a hard > disk drive AND an optical disk drive. The optical drive has in it what > corresponds to an ISO that resides in a special directory of the FIRST > partition in the hard disk. You choose which ISO with a clickwheel and > an LCD menu on the Zalman enclosure. The fact that the Zalman VE-300 > won't understand but the first partition for its optical drive emulation > is the reason I can't use the first partition for FreeDOS. This setup > will be my "repairman companion" and I want FreeDOS for those utilities > that would otherwise need a floppy drive or are distributed only as DOS > utilities.
There should be FAT32 firmware for VE-300 available at the Zalman website. Default indeed is NTFS, to allow ISO files with a size of 4GB and above. Another option is the ISOSTICK hardware device, which only supports FAT32. > the system won't boot if the installation wasn't made on the first or > only partition (I tried both), no matter what I chose in the final screen. This might be the BIOS coming into play, expecting bootable partitions to start below 8GB or so. > BTW: the installation procedure tells me I'm installing FreeDOS 1.0 all > the time, not FreeDOS 1.1. I swear I burned the only image I downloaded > from the FreeDOS website, and that's fd11src.iso. You might have switched languages where the translated files aren't kept up to date. My recommendation would be to either download UBCD ISO-file (which includes FreeDOS) or to install FreeDOS inside of Bochs emulator, then create an ISO where you boot the harddisk-image used for Bochs. I'm working on that last one right now (to avoid the entire installation procedure) for 16MB+ machines, though as usual distribution is a nightmare when you have to take care of providing sources as well for all programs. Improving the installers is a bit difficult, lots of software isn't maintained anymore or not up to date for current machines. If you want to see if FreeDOS boots properly, the manual barebones way is best (use FDISK, FDISK /MBR , FORMAT C: , SYS C: ). Installing FreeDOS programs afterwards should be possible when starting INSTALL.EXE while you're in the X:\FREEDOS directory. Post-installation configuration is done in POSTINST.BAT at C:\DOS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Precog is a next-generation analytics platform capable of advanced analytics on semi-structured data. The platform includes APIs for building apps and a phenomenal toolset for data science. Developers can use our toolset for easy data analysis & visualization. Get a free account! http://www2.precog.com/precogplatform/slashdotnewsletter _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
