Also, I'm curious. The 486 is not my main computer. It is a hobby project. While I would be disappointed is anything was lost in the transition, it wouldn't be the end of the world. I'm taking a break now. Please don't be offended if you post something and I don't respond immediately. I will let you all know how this works out. Dennis
Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone on the Bell network. Original Message From: Rugxulo Sent: Friday, March 24, 2017 6:17 PM To: Discussion and general questions about FreeDOS. Reply To: Discussion and general questions about FreeDOS. Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] boot floppy disk image too big for a disk Hi, On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 5:15 PM, Dennis Fenton <dwf...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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. If you have anything more important than games (and/or don't have the original installation media for them and/or the disks for the version of MS-DOS you're using), then maybe you shouldn't quite install FreeDOS "just yet"! Especially any personal files (personal docs, sources, game saves, registration keys), make sure to back those up several times! It might be safer to use a separate hard drive entirely for FreeDOS so that you don't risk deleting anything important. You never did mention if you have a working packet driver (I'll assume not), but it might make backing up files a lot easier. If you just want to play around with FreeDOS, just use a bootable floppy (as suggested), which will minimally let you use the FD kernel with all of your pre-existing utils. Honestly, if you already have MS-DOS, then you probably aren't the target audience for FreeDOS at all. (Not to be pessimistic, but FreeDOS doesn't normally offer much more, by itself, over MS-DOS. Although it does support FAT32, unlike MS-DOS v6 [FAT12/16 only], which can be more efficient for large drives.) You don't technically "need" two different kernels (but maybe you want to compare). In that case, MetaKern may be of interest to you: http://freedos.gds.tuwien.ac.at/freedos/news/technote/184.html https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/boot/metakern/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
