Benjamin S.

Perfect, thank you fritz especially for the part with the network and the VM. Perhaps a project for the future. I have used VirtualBox a couple of years ago, in my memory a good system for testing several things. Best regards Ben

Hi Fritz, the jumper on the CD-ROM is set to slave, my HDD is working as Master, both share the same IDE Cable. I also thought about using my Soundcard IDE socket for the CD-ROM, but the system stops with an BIOS Error for the HDD Controller if I remove the CD-ROM from the IDE, so I was not going on with that try. But now I have another solution. I use the LITE-ON CD-ROM 40x Drive from the year 2000 I already used at the beginning, but now with the live CD. FDIMPLES works now quick an reliable during...

Good evening fritz, Fdisk and creating a big partition worked fine. I also replaced my CD-ROM Drive and I used scandisk to check for faulty sectors, everything seems fine. So I went on with installing FreeDOS in Minimal Setup, working like before. Then I started fdimples and figured out, that it is working fine without CD, of course it makes no sense, because I want to install new package with it. But then I remembered the live CD, I never thought about this option with my old hardware. The interesting...

You're right, It's an quite old machine. I didn't search about the two cpu sockets jet, but somebody told me, it's for the extra floating point unit when you insert an 486 without. Tank you for the manual, it's even written in my native language :) The computer has even the maximum possible RAM, it's equipped with 32MB. I already tried to copy the whole CD to HDD, but with XCOPY it stopped after a few files. Your idea with chkdsk sounds good, I haven't tried that yet, so my job for the next days....

Hello Fritz, i didn't try a live CD jet, because I assume that my hardware is too old for that, so I used Legacy CDs. The small installation run fine, but when I start fdimples it freezes and is not working. So I tried an installation without ezdrive, taking in account that I only get one partition with 512MB, still the same, fdimples freezes immediately. I always took FAT16 with ezdrive and without. On the machine run Win98 befor in same configuration without any problems. The Mainboard is an Nixdorf...