Hi, >> On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 11:34 AM Akshay >> ... >> On the second boot, the setup goes till "gathering some information to >> prepare for the installation", and then gives an error message, "unable to >> locate installation packages. A reboot might help". Upon reboot the same >> message occurs.
This is definitely a cd visibility issue as Louis suggests. Basically in 1.2, there is a floppy image on the cd-rom. On the Legacy CD, floppy emulation is handled by the BIOS. On the Standard CD, emulation is done through syslinux/memdisk. During the boot process of the emulated floppy, FreeDOS loads device drivers to talk to a cd/dvd. If they fail to work, the installer will not be able to find the packages on the cd-rom. This can happen for several reasons. The main cause on real hardware is the driver not supporting the drive is it’s default configuration. On virtual hardware, I suspect it would be an improperly configured virtual machine. There are other reasons. But, those are probably the most likely. There are additional options to do an install of 1.2. One that seldom gets mentioned is the multiple HD install method. Basically, you just copy the entire contents of the CD or USB stick image to a secondary hard drive. Boot any of the FreeDOS 1.2 install media (Floppy, Legacy CD, etc). Run the installer. When it does it’s package search, it will detect them on the secondary HD and use them to install FreeDOS onto the Primary HD. Jerome _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
