This error will occur if the installer was unable to locate the FreeDOS packages required tp perform the installation. There are many reasons this could occur. For instance, booting the Floppy and never inserting the CD-ROM, CD/DVD driver does not support your hardware, and etc. To troubleshoot your reported bug, I will need more information. First, what installation method did you use? CD-ROM only, Floppy+CD-ROM or USB Stick image.
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This error will occur if the installer was unable to locate the FreeDOS packages required tp perform the installation. There are many reasons this could occur. For instance, booting the Floppy and never inserting the CD-ROM, CD/DVD driver does not support your hardware, and etc. To troubleshoot your reported bug, I will need more information. First, what installation method did you use? CD-ROM only, Floppy+CD-ROM or USB Stick image.
[bugs:#158] unable to locate the installation packages
Status: open
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Labels: install
Created: Tue Nov 01, 2016 08:52 AM UTC by Szőgyényi Gábor
Last Updated: Tue Nov 01, 2016 08:53 AM UTC
Owner: Jim Hall
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Ok, this is a install media boot/hardware compatibility issue and not an "installer" bug. Not that that matters. Based on your images, this is what you are seeing is
A:\ The pseudo floppy portion of the CD-ROM. This floppy is nearly identical to the FLOPPY.ZIP download. It only contains a minimal version of FreeDOS 1.2 and the installer. The required FreeDOS packages are not present here.
C:\ The target where you want to put FreeDOS.
D:\ A very small RAM disk created by the installer for temporary storage, importing settings and I/O redirection.
At my first glance, it appears that either the CD/DVD driver does not fully support your hardware or there is some sort of bios level conflict that occurs when booting the El Torito Spec CD. That type of boot CD is the original widely accepted version. However, most bootable discs nowadays use a "CD Hard Disk Image" and your hardware may only support that type of boot CD. If many problems occur using the El Torito CD format, we may switch boot CD types. Unfortunatly, most pre-pentium computers do not support the Hard Disk type. Maybe we could provide both.
When you boot the CD, do you see startup messages that show your CD-ROM portion of the disc has been located and assigned a drive letter like in this picture?
That would be the FD12LITE.zip and FD12FULL.zip. They both install the same versions of FreeDOS (BASE and FULL). The difference is between them mainly is the FULL version contains roughly 400mb of additional packages that are provided for convenience. They can be installed directly with the FDINST command line utility, or (if FULL was installed) using the FDIMPLES gui.
The images can be written to pen drive easily using a Mac, Linux or BSD system by just using the dd command. Similar to these for a Mac command lines:
diskUtillistsudoddif=FD12FULL.imgof=/dev/disk5
Verify that you target the correct device! This will remove all partition information from the drive. Also, make sure you write to the device not a partition. Things like /dev/disk3 /dev/hde /dev/sda /dev/sr2 all are fine. But, /dev/disk3s1 and /dev/sda2 would not function properly.
Last edit: Shidel 2016-11-01
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Maybe, but the zip versions currenly include vmdk image descripter files. However, neither VMware and VirtualBox support booting an image as an attached USB device. So, those extra files make it easy to just drop them onto a virtual machine as one of its hard drives.
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Last edit: Szőgyényi Gábor 2016-11-01
This error will occur if the installer was unable to locate the FreeDOS packages required tp perform the installation. There are many reasons this could occur. For instance, booting the Floppy and never inserting the CD-ROM, CD/DVD driver does not support your hardware, and etc. To troubleshoot your reported bug, I will need more information. First, what installation method did you use? CD-ROM only, Floppy+CD-ROM or USB Stick image.
I burned the "FD12CD.iso" image file to a DVD-RW disk and booted from it.
After booting I have only 3 drives: A:\, C:\ and D:\
(see pic.)
On drive A:\ there is an "FDSETUP" directory, contains "BIN" and "SETUP" subfolders.
(see pic.)
Drive C:\ is fresh formatted FAT32, my FreeDOS install destination drive.
On drive D:\ there is an empty "TEMP" folder.
(see pic.)
Shidel shidel@users.sf.net írta:
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#158Ok, this is a install media boot/hardware compatibility issue and not an "installer" bug. Not that that matters. Based on your images, this is what you are seeing is
A:\ The pseudo floppy portion of the CD-ROM. This floppy is nearly identical to the FLOPPY.ZIP download. It only contains a minimal version of FreeDOS 1.2 and the installer. The required FreeDOS packages are not present here.
C:\ The target where you want to put FreeDOS.
D:\ A very small RAM disk created by the installer for temporary storage, importing settings and I/O redirection.
At my first glance, it appears that either the CD/DVD driver does not fully support your hardware or there is some sort of bios level conflict that occurs when booting the El Torito Spec CD. That type of boot CD is the original widely accepted version. However, most bootable discs nowadays use a "CD Hard Disk Image" and your hardware may only support that type of boot CD. If many problems occur using the El Torito CD format, we may switch boot CD types. Unfortunatly, most pre-pentium computers do not support the Hard Disk type. Maybe we could provide both.
When you boot the CD, do you see startup messages that show your CD-ROM portion of the disc has been located and assigned a drive letter like in this picture?
As the attached image shows: no, there is no drive letter assigned to the DVD drive.
What about ISO images for USB pendrives?
That would be the FD12LITE.zip and FD12FULL.zip. They both install the same versions of FreeDOS (BASE and FULL). The difference is between them mainly is the FULL version contains roughly 400mb of additional packages that are provided for convenience. They can be installed directly with the FDINST command line utility, or (if FULL was installed) using the FDIMPLES gui.
The images can be written to pen drive easily using a Mac, Linux or BSD system by just using the dd command. Similar to these for a Mac command lines:
Verify that you target the correct device! This will remove all partition information from the drive. Also, make sure you write to the device not a partition. Things like /dev/disk3 /dev/hde /dev/sda /dev/sr2 all are fine. But, /dev/disk3s1 and /dev/sda2 would not function properly.
Last edit: Shidel 2016-11-01
Thanks, it worked. Maybe a bootable ISO would be better, than a zip file which contains the img file.
Maybe, but the zip versions currenly include vmdk image descripter files. However, neither VMware and VirtualBox support booting an image as an attached USB device. So, those extra files make it easy to just drop them onto a virtual machine as one of its hard drives.
Since this now works (using different image) I am marking this as closed.
Reporter indicates this is fixed by using a different install image (was using CDROM only, not CDROM+floppy)