The 486 that I plan to use FreeDOS on currently has MS-DOS 6.22 as its only OS. My plan is to completely replace it but keep all my installed programs. The SCSI drivers are all in C:\SCSI and I notice FreeDOS has its own equivalent of MSCDEX.EXE.
Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone on the Bell network. Original Message From: Eric Auer Sent: Friday, March 24, 2017 4:33 PM To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Reply To: Discussion and general questions about FreeDOS. Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] boot floppy disk image too big for a disk Hi Dennis, > I downloaded and installed WinImage 9.0 on my win98 computer. It has a > floppy drive. I successfully wrote the img file to a floppy. > Another issue occurred to me. My cd-rom drive is a SCSI external type. That might be a problem, depending on your SCSI controller and whether it has good BIOS support etc etc. I assume you refer to the CD-ROM of the PC where you want to install DOS? By the way, does that PC also have another operating system? Do you want to replace that by DOS? Or install both side by side as "dual boot"? The latter requires special steps, the former can mean that current disk contents get overwritten. > The new boot floppy has an fdconfig.sys and an autoexec.bat file. I'm > thinking > I need to add lines to both to recognize the SCSI drive when it boots. If you have good DOS drivers for the drive and know how to configure them, then you can do that. If you plan to install DOS on a computer where you already have or can install some operating system with easy internet, then I would recommend another method: Copy the ISO file of FreeDOS to a FAT drive on the PC where you want to install DOS and then "mount" it as if it would be the CD of FreeDOS :-) If the boot floppy has no automatic support for that, then I am sure that some extra explanation of this trick could be given by Rugxulo or Jerome, with examples of what to put where in fdconfig and autoexec on the boot floppy :-) The idea is that you need no hardware specific drivers at all to open the ISO if you already have it on the future DOS PC, so you avoid all worries about SCSI and CDROM drivers then. You still do need that special ISO driver, of course, but as that is not specific to certain hardware, it is easy to use. Cheers, Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
