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Re: [Freedos-user] boot floppy disk image too big for a dis
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From: Dennis F. <dw...@gm...> - 2017-03-24 03:40:26
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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 Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone on the Bell network. Original Message From: Thomas Mueller Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2017 10:19 PM To: fre...@li... Reply To: Discussion and general questions about FreeDOS. Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] boot floppy disk image too big for a dis 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. > To my dismay I found that the boot disk image is too big to fit on a > 1.44 floppy. > This makes me question the decision to switch. How in the world can an > organization dedicated to promoting this better version of DOS get it > wrong when it comes to the size of a disk image? > Do you have a fix for this? Is this the floppy image? http://www.freedos.org/download/download/FD12FLOPPY.zip I just found it on FreeDOS download page. But if too big to fit on 1.44 floppy, could you boot the image with grub4dos (latest and final version is 0.4.4)? https://sourceforge.net/projects/grub4dos/ I have booted "floppy" images far too big to fit on actual floppy. Otherwise, you could possibly use Syslinux (latest version 6.03) with memdisk, or possibly Grub2. Tom ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Fre...@li... https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user |
