> On Sep 10, 2015, at 5:29 PM, Steve Nickolas <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, 10 Sep 2015, Eric Auer wrote: > >> >> Hi! >> >>> How many of you remember the DOS 6.22 install process? If possible, it >>> should aim for that. It's simple and straight to the point. It worked >> >> As far as I remember, it was 3 floppies and only "base" software... >> Also, under which conditions would it format / partition your disk? > > If it needed to partition, it would offer to partition and reboot. Then > if it needed to format, it would offer to.
This is exactly what my FDI 1.2 Prototype installer does. It is not yet complete. But, it does that part of the process already. Basically, boots and sees no existing dos drive c:, offers to run fdisk or exit. If it sees there is a drive C:, but it is unable to read it, that means it needs formatted. So, it offers to that or quit. This gives the user the ability to partition and format elsewhere. But, you cannot do an install without the drive C:. >> As mentioned earlier, computers older than 386 cannot normally boot >> from anything large and portable (CD, DVD, USB stick) so you would >> only install a basic DOS on them, maybe simply by hand: Take some >> floppy with pre-installed FreeDOS, FORMAT, XCOPY and SYS, done :-) > > Even a lot of 486s can't do El Torito. My 486/133 couldn't. > > -uso. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Monitor Your Dynamic Infrastructure at Any Scale With Datadog! > Get real-time metrics from all of your servers, apps and tools > in one place. > SourceForge users - Click here to start your Free Trial of Datadog now! > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=241902991&iu=/4140 > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monitor Your Dynamic Infrastructure at Any Scale With Datadog! Get real-time metrics from all of your servers, apps and tools in one place. SourceForge users - Click here to start your Free Trial of Datadog now! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=241902991&iu=/4140 _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
