Hi, On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 4:06 AM, Marlon Ng <guik...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hey, so I tried RUFUS (which only runs in windows, right?).
Yes, only Windows host for creator .EXE, according to the FAQ. (No direct mentions of WINE.) > I used fd11src.iso Good. > Upon booting from the flash drive, I get the blue screen which has the > options of Install to harddisk, ... > > If I choose Install to harddisk, I get this: > > Partition Status Mbytes Description Usage > C: 1 A 7530 FAT32 ext Int13 > 100% > > SETUP wasn't able to locate any disks to install Freedos 1.1 from. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Partition Status Type Volume label mbytes system > usage > c: 1 A PRI DOS 7530 > fat32ext 100% > > No space to create a dos partition. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > It seems to detect only the flash drive in which I used RUFUS to install > freedos to, correct? So there's no way to install freedos to the partition > of the hard drive, which is 400MB only. "No way"? That's probably not quite true, but I'm not exactly sure what's going on here. I'm horribly inept at low-level stuff, but at the very least your BIOS must be configured with something like "legacy" mode (non-SATA?). If the BIOS can't find the drive, then DOS has no chance. However, just because this particular "fdisk" doesn't see it doesn't mean all others will similarly fail. FreeDOS technically has three different ones: FD fdisk, xfdisk, spfdisk. I vaguely remember hearing that spfdisk could handle SATA drives better in some cases. You may wish to try that. So forget about the "installer", you don't technically need that at all. As long as the BIOS can see your physical drive, you can partition, format, and "sys" it, and that's all you need (minimally). Note that I've not tried "spfdisk" lately, and I'm honestly not 100% sure what the latest version is, but a weak guess is that the latest version is available here: http://spferng.myweb.hinet.net/Spf2K3vE.exe > Again, I've installed freedos in a partition of a harddrive successfully > using a cd. I did it twice without any error. > > Thanks for your time. I really don't know what's going wrong for you. It's hard to tell from far away without seeing it firsthand. But I just assume it's a simple error or misconfiguration. Keep trying! :-) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
