#371 Unable to install FreeDOS 1.3 from USB
Good afternoon. I tried to use an USB stick to install FreeDOS 1.3 on an older Toshiba Satellite 320CDT, with 233Mhz and 96mb ram. Because the laptop is too old to support USB booting, I used plop manager on diskette and then boot from USB drive. The USB drive was created using Win32Imager.
Then it automatically prompted me to the setup wizard. After choosing the option and the installation process begun, it hit me with the error ""Error writing to drive D: Dos area: write-protection violation attempted" I tried making sure that in fdisk I had partitions made, switching to disk 1 to 2, but it seemed alright.
Sorry if my English is broken or if this isn't the right place to ask this. It is my first time using this forum and I couldn't find much information about my problem. Any help is appreciated.
Sorry, but this is hard to understand. Do you have 2 hard drives inside the machine? Or are this 2 partitions?
Which one is drive D: ?
Is D: your USB-stick (pendrive)?
Are there important files on the HD that should be backed up before? Or another OS?
FreeDOS usually looks for a free partition C: and installs the OS there and runs fdisk and format automatically when doing so. In this case you may have to reboot and start a second time.
If your machine has a CD ROM drive, burn the live CD ISO image on a CD and try to boot and install from there.
There is only the hard drive, CD rom drive and the usb drive. The CD rom drive I think was assigned letter E:.
I realized what is the problem. FDISk didnt modify any disk. The partitions remained intact.
Hi Colin. You can also run the installer in "Advanced" mode using
SETUP /ADVand that will give you further control over things like partitioning the disk and selecting where to install.
closing as "Resolved" since this wasn't a bug