Jerome Shidel composed on 2019-12-14 22:28 (UTC-0500): >> On Dec 14, 2019, at 9:13 PM, Felix Miata <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Do any of the installation media boot options allow to simply boot and run >> FORMAT C: /S >> ??? >> I don't need anything more than a bootable HD primary from which to boot >> FreeDOS >> and run a Dell BIOS upgrade where no floppy, CD or USB boot is possible. The >> boot >> menu on the installation media suggests no such option is possible, while >> some >> suggest it's likely I'd lose the existing partitioning that I do not want >> disturbed. What do Install to harddisk and Create drive C: actually entail? >> Can >> either produce a simple DOS prompt? > Yes. All of the media can do that. > Just boot the install media. > Then the installer starts automatically. > Select your language. > Then exit the installer. > This will quit the installer an drop you to a command prompt. > From there, you can run fdisk, format and several other commands to manually > partition and/or format ggumsthe a hard drive and transfer system boot files. Thanks. While I was waiting I did a base install and a sans sources install, two different disks on the same i915 Dell. Both produced bootable results, but the first one, to the existing FAT 16 250 MB destroyed all 33 logical partitions on the drive in the process. Luckily I had documented all of them and successfully created them. When I moved the 60G to its newe laptop home, attempting to boot produces no prompt, only a dot in the upper corner. I was able to boot the installation CD, and with that and the bios update file on C: start it, but it refused to run, claiming there is no battery. :~( -- Evolution as taught in public schools is religion, not science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
