Hi, I’m new to FreeDOS. I wanted to revive my old computer (a Compaq Prosignia 150) that originally had Windows 98, so I set up a CD-ROM with the FreeDOS installer.
When I booted from the CD-ROM, everything seemed to be going smoothly. I had to use the “raw” workaround, though, otherwise I would be given several “Invalid Opcode” errors. This doesn’t have much to do with the problem I’m having though, or at least I don’t think so. Problems arose when I got a message saying that a previous OS was detected (which was Windows 98), and that I could either continue installing or make a backup. I searched this up online, and found absolutely no documentation on this. I came to the conclusion that it would just format my C: drive and continued. After I started the install however, it just installed all the files alongside my old ones, so the installer completely skipped the part where it would format the drive. So now I have FreeDOS 1.2 installed, but my Windows 98 files still exist. Is there anyway to replicate the formatting process from the CD-ROM (and can I run the command from the CD-ROM)? If it involves using the format command, can you tell me the exact command the installer uses? I kind of have OCDs for that sort of thing, sorry. I’m looking to do a full format. I would recommend a change for this in FreeDOS 1.3, to allow clean installs of FreeDOS in place of the operating system currently installed. Thanks in advance, and I can’t wait to try out FreeDOS on my old computer! -- Sincerely, HTV04
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