From: Dennis Fenton <dwf...@gmail.com> Read what I wrote. I burned the iso to a CD. I also downloaded the floppy img. It doesn't fit! So my first interaction on this forum is from someone who treats me like a dummy. Perhaps another reason to say to Hell with FreeDOS.
SentafromamyaBlackBerrya10asmartphoneaonatheaBellanetwork. a Original Message a From: dmccunney Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2017 9:26 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 On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 9:32 PM, Dennis Fenton <dwf...@gmail.com> wrote: > After some research I decided FreeDOS would be a good replacement for > MS-DOS 6.22 on an old 486 I'm playing with. > I downloaded and burned to CD the iso. I also downloaded the boot > floppy disk image because the old 486 will not boot from the external > SCSI CD drive. > To my dismay I found that the boot disk image is too big to fit on a > 1.44 floppy. The ISO image isn't *intended* to fit on a floppy. It expects to be installed on a CDROM. If you have a machine that *can't* boot form CD and must boot from floppy, there's a boot floppy zip file you can extract to floppy to boot from. That assumes the rest of the distribution will be on a CD you can access from FreeDOS once you've booted from the floppy. See the Boot Floppy option under "How to install FreeDOS 1.2 +" See http://www.freedos.org/download/ > This makes me question the decision to switch. How in the world can an > organization dedicated to promoting this better version of DOS get it > wrong when it comes to the size of a disk image? > Do you have a fix for this? The problem is pilot error. Please read the applicable instructions on the download page. ______ Dennis ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 --- Internet Rex 2.29 * Origin: capcity2.synchro.net - 502/875-8938 (276:10/901) --- Synchronet 3.15a-Linux ListGate 1.3 * Capitol City Online - Frankfort, KY - telnet://capitolcityonline.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
