DAVID L. ORMAND wrote:
Hoping Beta9 SR#1 will fix this behaviour, I get the boot and two base disks dated 11/30. Loading on my laptop with a CD drive but no CD in the drive, it gets past the point of loading the CDROM driver, and then it dies saying "cannot find A:\FREEDOS\FDAUTO.BAT" and it becomes clear that it can't access a:, b:, or c:.
So I don't think the Install From Floppies option works. It used
to do better with the pre-SR#1.
What you can try, is to download a newer cdromdriver http://www.benq.com/ss_download/drivers/storage/cd-rom/drivers/dos/apicd214.exe
then rename it to atapicdd.sys and put it on the 1.44MB bootdisk. You can easily remove any program from the 'SPECIAL' directory if you want to make some space available. I think this is the problematic thing. In my Vmware testing, the cdrom driver loads perfectly but takes a long time to load.
I'll have to retest the 'install from floppies'. Too bad that I don't have a spare machine (+ monitor/keyboard/mouse) around for such scenarios.
I'll test the floppy installation again using a 2.88MB diskette image.
Thanks for the feedback, I hope to get floppy install working properly, but cdrom is so much easier :)
Even booting from cdrom and then trying floppy install should work properly.
Bernd
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