On Fri, 30 Dec 2016 17:44:47 +0100, userbeitrag wrote:
> What I can do thou is plug the IDE HDD into another PC and pre-load
> FreeDOS there. Then, connecting the IDE HDD inside the 486-PC, FreeDOS
> should start.
That's correct, if done carefully. You have to make sure tough that both
computers
Jerome and Louis, thanks!
>> 1) Does the installer check the hardware and make choices? If so, this
>> would be totally wrong since I will be preloading it on a very different PC.
> Yes a little. Only to compensate for the different quirks in the common vm
> platforms.
> So, if you install to rea
On 2016-12-30 23:31, Jose Antonio Senna wrote:
> Some (maybe silly) remarks:
>
> -Is the HD blank or do you already have some O/S working
>in that PC ?
It is still blank.
> -If you have say, MSDOS, on the PC do you want to keep it
>and make a dual-boot PC ?
I will eventually ins
Hello!
On 2016-12-30 18:39, Rugxulo wrote:
> > I cannot easily create a 3.5 inch boot floppy to use it in
> > the 486-PC.
>
> Is the drive itself broken or you don't have a working floppy disk or ...?
I tried old floppy disks in a USB FDD that I acquired, but it doesn't
work. I don't know if
One other thing you can try with VirtualBox (and Bochs, and QEMU,
probably VMware Player) is use device pass through and install
directly to the drive there using the VM (VirtualBox calls it raw
access)[0][1]. The machine running the VM will likely be faster than
your 486 and so the install should
If you have an IDE HD; you might try it the way I do.
I use compact flash chips which have a standard IDE
interface. I installed freedos on a chip and move it
from one computer to another so far without problems.
You just need a cf chip and an adapter both for sale
on Amazon. It boots strait to fre
Hi,
On Dec 30, 2016 10:46 AM, wrote:
>
> I cannot easily create a 3.5 inch boot floppy to use it in
> the 486-PC.
Is the drive itself broken or you don't have a working floppy disk or ...?
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> On Dec 30, 2016, at 11:44 AM, userbeit...@abwesend.de wrote:
>
> Hi, fellow FreeDOS users! I need your help.
>
>
> I have an original Intel 80486 with 50 MHz that I want to try FreeDOS
> on. I still haven't found the time so far an my first attempt came to an
> early halt because I couldn'
Hi, fellow FreeDOS users! I need your help.
I have an original Intel 80486 with 50 MHz that I want to try FreeDOS
on. I still haven't found the time so far an my first attempt came to an
early halt because I couldn't get an installation media to start on this
machine.
*) The 486-PC doesn't h
I have an ISA NE2000 (CNET 200E) compatible card and an INTEL PCI E1000
Gigabit card and I run a batch file with choice to install the packet
driver for whichever is th connected NIC card.
On Fri, Dec 30, 2016 at 2:02 AM, Louis Santillan wrote:
> Try using PCINIC [0] from David Dunfield [1] to
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