First of all, I think FreeDOS is an outstanding replacement for the discontinued MS-DOS!!!
I've been a happy camper & been a big fan of FreeDOS since v1.1. I use it mainly on my 'ancient' PC. This PC has been around since the late 1990s. I built it myself. It has an Intel Pentium III 450mhz CPU on an Asus P3b-F motherboard with one 256kb DIMM for RAM & VGA graphics on an AGP-4x video card (I think it's an NVIDIA 6200 GPU???).
I usually use Linux (Ubuntu 20.04). It's on another OLD, but not quite as old PC, (about 10 years old) ... I've become a big fan of freeware!
My 3rd PC (about the same age as the Linux PC) has Win 10 on it. I rarely use it anymore especially with the Win 11 release. ("I seen the writing on the wall" with Win11)
I've recently wanted to upgrade my oldest PC as much as I could which includes going from FreeDOS 1.1 to FreeDOS 1.3. I dowloaded the packages that I thought I needed.
I haven't tried it, but I'm pretty sure this oldest PC of mine won't boot from a CD. So I extracted the legacy ZIP which contained a floppy boot image & a CD ISO file. I then tried to extract the floppy IMG file to a new-never-used 1.44 mb floppy in hopes to later create a boot floppy in Ubuntu, but I couldn't even get that far because the floppy image file wouldn't fit on the new 1.44mb floppy. I then tried using the DVD drive to put the floppy IMG file on it but, writing to the DVD drive in a DOS environment won't work (at least not with my limited knowledge)...
So now I'm stuck & don't know what else I can do. :( Any suggestions/help??? _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
