On Fri, 06 Mar 2020 00:15:17 +0100, dmccunney
wrote:
I think your fundamental problem is that FreeDOS cannot successfully
boot from a 7.8GB partition formatted as FAT32. It may be able to
access other larger partitions formatted FAT32 and seen by DOS as D:,
E: or the like, once FreeDOS *is*
On Thu, Mar 5, 2020 at 5:25 PM Jen via Freedos-user
wrote:
> I haven’t tried reformatting the partition and running the installation again
> yet; I suspect it will still do the same thing. Should I try that?
> Any ideas what I’ve done wrong or why it might not be working?
You may need to refo
Try the utilities fdisk and format, I've not had any luck using Gparted to
make anything FreeDos can reliably read.
On Thu, Mar 5, 2020 at 3:25 PM Jen via Freedos-user <
freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> I’m trying to install FreeDOS onto the SSD hard drive of my ThinkPad W520
> 4284‑W
I’m trying to install FreeDOS onto the SSD hard drive of my ThinkPad W520
4284‑WZN copied to RAM from a DVD I have, using its internal DVD‑RW drive.
· In the UEFI BIOS [version 8BET62WW (1.42)], I set the boot to “Legacy Only” &
the ‘SATA Controller Mode Option’ to “Compatibility” mode (IDE mod
