First, thanks for the quick reply - IT WORKED!
In answer to..
"Please specify "installation starts". This means you succeeded in installing the complete freedos beta9prerelease4, and are now booting from harddisk?"
I have completed running "fdisk" and "format /u /s" to install the boot system
I have FreeDOS Beta 9 pre-release4 and I made an attempt to install it to my old Pentium 90. I have no trouble running the boot disk or the CD. I partitioned and formated the c: drive and installed the system boot files. The c: drive will boot up fine. The boot floppy works too. All works well un