Hi,
I am trying to install FreeDOS on my old 486. Version 1.0 will boot from
floppy (only with himem, emm3886 with crash), detect CDROM drive (only if
connected on Vesa Local bus controller, not on SB16 IDE - tertiary ide IDE
channel) , and install happily. However upon reboot it just hangs , without
printing anything.
Versions 1.1 and 1.2 floppy bootdisks either hang on boot printing odd
characters or will not detect the CDROM.
System is a 486DX4-100, 32 MB RAM.VESA Local Bus controller with primary
IDE loaded with 2 HDD - 6 GB and 4 GB, secondary IDE the CDROM. BIOS
supports boot only from floppy and hdd. SB16 CT2290 used to handle the
CDROM drive via its IDE interface - now I moved the CDROM drive to the VESA
card. Windows 98SE happily gets installed and works on this system.
Is there a recommended strategy to get FreeDOS installed on such an ancient
system? Did some research and tried several bootdisks that float around,
nothing worked quite like FreeDOS 1.0.
Best regards,
Dimitris
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