Ole Juul
Veteran Member
There was some discussion of various DOSs, and FreeDOS came up, so I thought I'd give 'er a boot. That was a most aggravating experience. The CD can be downloaded here: http://www.freedos.org/freedos/files/
After writing the FreeDOS CD it might not be obvious where the pertinent pieces are located. you can find the format and sys commands as well as the other utilities which you might need to use this system here, \FREEDOS\SETUP\ODIN and the floppy image is located in \ISOLINUX
Nevertheless, even after finding this obscure location of the floppy image, it is not easy to write. On top of that, if you don't rename the autoexec.bat, it will assume you are wanting to format your HDD. The whole thing is just a nightmare of fighting with the will of the packagers. So, I thought I'd just write some images for those who don't want to get (even inadvertently) involved to such an extent. I added a few very simple but unusually functional utilities as well as the FreeDOS format and sys commands on the disks. There are four images:
FD11-360.IMG - 5.25" DSDD 360K
FD11-120.IMG - 5.25" DSHD 1.2meg
FD11-720.IMG - 3.5" DSDD 720K
FD11-144.IMG - 3.5" DSHD 1.44meg
I put all four in an archive on the web for anyone to use, and added a short readme with simple instructions and Mike's disk image utility. So, if you just want to get on with it and get a boot image before you do anything else, it is here:
Note, if you want all the FreeDOS utilities, get the CD and (as mentioned above) go to the \FREEDOS\SETUP\ODIN directory. Where else?
After writing the FreeDOS CD it might not be obvious where the pertinent pieces are located. you can find the format and sys commands as well as the other utilities which you might need to use this system here, \FREEDOS\SETUP\ODIN and the floppy image is located in \ISOLINUX
Nevertheless, even after finding this obscure location of the floppy image, it is not easy to write. On top of that, if you don't rename the autoexec.bat, it will assume you are wanting to format your HDD. The whole thing is just a nightmare of fighting with the will of the packagers. So, I thought I'd just write some images for those who don't want to get (even inadvertently) involved to such an extent. I added a few very simple but unusually functional utilities as well as the FreeDOS format and sys commands on the disks. There are four images:
FD11-360.IMG - 5.25" DSDD 360K
FD11-120.IMG - 5.25" DSHD 1.2meg
FD11-720.IMG - 3.5" DSDD 720K
FD11-144.IMG - 3.5" DSHD 1.44meg
I put all four in an archive on the web for anyone to use, and added a short readme with simple instructions and Mike's disk image utility. So, if you just want to get on with it and get a boot image before you do anything else, it is here:
Note, if you want all the FreeDOS utilities, get the CD and (as mentioned above) go to the \FREEDOS\SETUP\ODIN directory. Where else?