Hi Alicia, > On Feb 27, 2025, at 10:18 AM, Alicia via Freedos-user > <freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > Hi, this is alicia: > Thanks for the improvements, version 1.3 was enough for the case i solved. > You are welcome. :-)
> A week ago... or so.... i made again (more than 16 years ago i did the first > one) kind of a "live-usb" full system... but i made a partition for the new > installation, leaving the installer on the first and the system on the second. > I thought was not a good idea... perform an installation of a system on the > drive wich the installer resides... but is a common practice now. > That works too. Actually, I’ve done that n the internal SSD of a Netbook. It kinda works like an OEM Install/Backup partition. Initially it boots to the installer. But once installation onto a new partition is finished, it will boot the installed OS. Then simply change the boot partition, delete the installed partition and reboot. You could then quickly do a fresh install from the “backup” partition. Very useful when doing a lot of experimenting. > Thanks again, love what you've been doing since i knew about the project. > > Hope find time and peace of mind to collaborate with you. > Oh, we are currently testing release candidates for FreeDOS 1.4. A new RC should be released tomorrow. We are getting very close to having 1.4 done. > Alicia Creus Fernández > > Enviado desde Proton Mail para Android > > :-) Jerome > > -------- Mensaje original -------- > El 27/2/25 14:57, Jerome Shidel via Freedos-user ha escrito: > Hi, > > While the USB media is technically a running version of FreeDOS, > > the USB install media is not configured to be used as a portable installation > of FreeDOS. > > It is configured for the single purpose of installing the OS and not for > general usage. > > If you do not want to install FreeDOS onto a hard disk and cannot use the > LiveCD, you still > > have a couple of options. For example, you could install FreeDOS into a > Virtual Machine or > > turn the USB install media into a portable version of FreeDOS. > > > It is very simple to turn the USB install media into a portable version of > FreeDOS. > > 1) boot the USB install media. > > 2) quit the installer. > > 3) You will be returned to command prompt on drive C:. This is because the > internal drives get > Pushed up a letter by the BIOS when booting from a USB hard disk. > > 4) change directories to FDOS-x86. This is a copy of the Floppy Edition > installer that is included > on the USB media. > > 5) Run the Floppy Edition installer. This is a different installer than the > one you see when booting > the USB media. By default, the Floppy Edition will want to install to drive > C:. Since the BIOS > pushed the internal hard drives to D (and higher) to make room for the USB > drive as C:, this > Is fine. The Floppy Edition installs only packages which are part of FreeDOS > BASE. > > 6) You can select all the default options in that installer. However, it will > detect a previous installed > OS. This is the version of FreeDOS that is configured for installing the OS. > You can opt out of > backing it up. It will only be wasting space on the drive. If you do back it > up, you can delete the > backup files by hand later. > > 7) After install has complete. Reboot. > > 8) You will now have a portable version of FreeDOS on the USB. > > 9) You can delete the SETUP.BAT in the root directory. It was used by the > standard installer which > was overwritten and no longer available. You can also delete the FDOS-x86 > directory that contains > the Floppy Edition installer. > > 10) You can now use FDIMPLES to install or remove any of the normal or > standard packages which are > also included on the FullUSB Install media. If you are satisfied with what > packages are installed and > do not wish to add any additional ones, you can delete the PACKAGES directory > and free up 100’s > of megabytes on the USB Stick for the installation of other software. > > :-) > > Jerome > > >> On Feb 27, 2025, at 8:33 AM, david--- via Freedos-user >> <freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net >> <mailto:freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net>> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I am using FreeDOS 1.3 on a USB stick. >> >> On booting up, it ask for language selection, (English), and then asks >> whether to install to hard disk, (refused), so it returns to DOS. I have >> made no amendments to either the fdconfig.sys or fdauto.bat files, which are >> exactly as provided in the original FreeDOS 1.3 download zip. >> >> Quoting the contents of fdconfig.sys : >> >> >> >> !COUNTRY=001,858:\FREEDOS\BIN\COUNTRY.SYS >> !LASTDRIVE=Z >> !BUFFERS=20 >> !FILES=40 >> >> DOS=HIGH >> DOS=UMB >> DOSDATA=UMB >> >> DEVICE=\FREEDOS\BIN\HIMEMX.EXE >> >> SHELLHIGH=\FREEDOS\BIN\COMMAND.COM <http://command.com/> \FREEDOS\BIN >> /E:2048 /P=\FDAUTO.BAT >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> On 2025-02-27 18:57, Jim Hall via Freedos-user wrote: >> >>> Let's start with 2 quick questions: what version (what distribution) of >>> FreeDOS did you install, and what do you see first when FreeDOS starts up >>> on the computer? >>> >>> I hope you're running FreeDOS 1.3 .. or maybe the release candidate for >>> FreeDOS 1.4. Both of these are available from the www.freedos.org >>> <http://www.freedos.org/> website. >>> >>> Both of these versions show a menu when FreeDOS starts up. It's important >>> to know what option you're selecting in that menu, because XMS support will >>> be provided by one of those options. >>> >>> There should be a FDCONFIG.SYS file that comes with FreeDOS. Can you look >>> in this file? Is it a long file, or a short one, or is it empty? Did you >>> edit this file since installing FreeDOS? >>> >>> >>> >>> On Wed, Feb 26, 2025, 11:59 PM david--- via Freedos-user >>> <freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net >>> <mailto:freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net>> wrote: >>> I am new to FreeDOS and have run into a problem whereby some traditional >>> MSDOS programs will not run, complaining about "XMS allocation error". >>> >>> In MSDOS the solution is an additional line in config.sys reading >>> "device=emm386.exe ram", but there does not appear to be a emm386.exe >>> equivalent in FreeDOS. I would very much appreciate an explanation, >>> please, about how to get around this problem. >>> >>> Thank you >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Freedos-user mailing list >>> Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net >>> <mailto:Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user >>> <https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user> >> _______________________________________________ >> Freedos-user mailing list >> Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net >> <mailto:Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
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