Hi,
On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 10:56 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
>
> I just looked inside http://www.freedos.org/download/download/FD12FLOPPY.zip
> "boot floppy", and a 3.5" 1.44M floppy. My floppy has 1457664 total bytes,
> 2847
> 512 byte sectors. The image downloaded is 1474560 bytes, so the download
It is possible to format a floppy a bit over size. Most drives will accommodate
2 to 4 extra tracks. Depending on the drive and the controller it's possible to
alter the number of sectors per track, but all tracks must have the same number
of sectors. Typically, altering the number of sectors re
On Mar 23, 2017 9:32 PM, "Dennis Fenton" wrote:
After some research I decided FreeDOS would be a good replacement for
...
To my dismay I found that the boot disk image is too big to fit on a
1.44 floppy.
...
What program are you using to write the image to your floppy? Boot images
cannot be c
I just looked inside http://www.freedos.org/download/download/FD12FLOPPY.zip
"boot floppy", and a 3.5" 1.44M floppy. My floppy has 1457664 total bytes, 2847
512 byte sectors. The image downloaded is 1474560 bytes, so the downloaded
image
would not fit here either.
-- "The wise are known for the
Yes that is the file. I also found it on the FreeDOS download page. I'm not
familiar with grub4dos. I'll look into it.
Dennis
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Original Message
From: Thomas Mueller
Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2017 10:19 PM
To: freedos-user@lists.sourcef
No bad sectors. I tried two different freshly formatted disks and ran scandisk
on them just to be sure.
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Original Message
From: Felix Miata
Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2017 10:30 PM
To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net
Reply To: Discus
Dennis Fenton composed on 2017-03-23 20:32 (UTC-0500):
> After some research I decided FreeDOS would be a good replacement for
> MS-DOS 6.22 on an old 486 I'm playing with.
> I downloaded and burned to CD the iso. I also downloaded the boot
> floppy disk image because the old 486 will not boot fro
from Dennis Fenton:
> After some research I decided FreeDOS would be a good replacement for
> MS-DOS 6.22 on an old 486 I'm playing with.
> I downloaded and burned to CD the iso. I also downloaded the boot
> floppy disk image because the old 486 will not boot from the external
> SCSI CD drive.
> T
Read what I wrote. I burned the iso to a CD. I also downloaded the floppy img.
It doesn't fit!
So my first interaction on this forum is from someone who treats me like a
dummy. Perhaps another reason to say to Hell with FreeDOS.
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Origin
On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 9:32 PM, Dennis Fenton wrote:
> After some research I decided FreeDOS would be a good replacement for
> MS-DOS 6.22 on an old 486 I'm playing with.
> I downloaded and burned to CD the iso. I also downloaded the boot
> floppy disk image because the old 486 will not boot from
After some research I decided FreeDOS would be a good replacement for
MS-DOS 6.22 on an old 486 I'm playing with.
I downloaded and burned to CD the iso. I also downloaded the boot
floppy disk image because the old 486 will not boot from the external
SCSI CD drive.
To my dismay I found that the boot
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