Oh, if the installation might take that long then maybe installing on a VM on the PC then copying all the files is better indeed.
On Thu, Jul 3, 2025, 04:48 Jerome Shidel via Freedos-user < freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > There is a 3rd possibility. It could be an issue with VASK regarding CGA. > It is possible that not being at least EGA, it may have a problem. Like I > said, almost no testing on Sub-EGA hardware. > > But honestly, you are probably better off installing to a standard VM like > VirtualBox or QEMU. Creating a bootable floppy disk and copying over only > the program and files you want. > > I say that because the Floppy edition files are compressed. This cuts the > number of Diskettes in half and reduces the install time on 386+ machines. > But, decompression is CPU intensive and it takes longer on sub-386 > hardware. It can be agonizingly slow on an 8086. I’ve heard sometimes 4 or > more hours to install. > > As for installing by hand using the Floppy Edition. Maybe. > > The installer does a couple things on the FE. It partitions, formats, sets > the active partition and transfers system boot files to the hard drive. > Then looks at what hardware you are running and creates a few tags. It then > runs SLICERX with those tags. SLICERX then extracts the files relevant to > your system. Finally, the installer adjusts the config files (FDAUTO.BAT > and FDCONFIG.SYS) for your installation. > > If you perform all of the steps the installer performs, you could > theoretically use SLICERX to install the OS files. Obviously, You would > need to provide it with the appropriate tags. > > But, SLICERX uses a similar method to read the keyboard. So, if that is > where the problem you are experiencing during a normal install, you would > get stuck when it prompts for the next disk. > > However, if you were to copy all of the SLICERX archive files to a > directory on the hard drive, you could extract from there and not be > prompted for disk changes. > > Definitely not the easiest way to get FreeDOS installed. > > Not sure what you mean by “recompile the source files and write them to an > IMG” > > > > > > > > On Jul 2, 2025, at 9:39 PM, Lutalli via Freedos-user < > freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > > Thanks for all the replies! > > Well I'm not sure if I should contact PocketDOS's developer to ask him to > check if it's a bug in the BIOS implementation (maybe I will). And I don't > know how to debug this myself... > > As a debugging step, it would be interesting to boot the PocketDOS VM >> with the FreeDOS Floppy Distro boot floppy and use F8 to turn >> singlestepping ON. Accept the "SHELL=COMMAND.COM" line, but do not >> accept the "\FDAUTO.BAT" line. You should get put into a DOS prompt. >> That at least demonstrates that FreeDOS will boot on PocketDOS. >> > > This is indeed interesting. After entering the DOS prompt I feel like I > get more control over the whole thing. > > I'm not gonna try manually running the installation process yet, but is > there a way to modify the source code and recompile it to an IMG file? I'm > thinking, if that's possible, I could probably skip that prompt (and maybe > other similar ones too) by simply editing the code. > > On Wed, Jul 2, 2025 at 1:54 AM Lutalli <lutall...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi there, >> >> I'm trying to install FreeDOS 1.4 (Floppy Edition) on an HP Jornada 720 >> using PocketDOS. The installer runs but I get stuck at "Do you want to >> proceed [Y,N]?". There the cursor is still blinking but I can't type >> anything. Same problem occurs with FreeDOS 1.3. >> >> Also check this thread >> <https://www.hpcfactor.com/forums/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=21661#M193592> >> from >> the HPC:Factor forum. Does anyone probably know what is causing this and >> how to fix it? >> >> Here's another question asked in this thread: >> >>> Is there a command line setup flag to disable the graphical part of the >>> installer, and only run in text mode? Or what setup flag in the >>> "StepByStep" mode controls that? >> >> >> Thanks in advance! >> Lutalli >> > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > 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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