From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jan Willem Stumpel Subject: Re: Installing ms-dos from floppies Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 20:49:28 +0200 Message-ID: <443BFA38.50204@my.home> References: <4437C9F9.8030301@my.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: In-reply-to: Sender: linux-msdos-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: dosemu Bart Oldeman wrote: > FD FORMAT simply fails on the "network" (ie. lredir) drive C:. > It can't be formatted. I suspect that the Setup program does > not like to install on network drives, so your only way out is > to use an HDIMAGE via mkfatimage16 (see the man page) and > specify that in $_hdimage. > > FORMAT works on HDIMAGES -- because the low level stuff is > skipped but also unnecessary unlike floppies: it just puts on > the boot sector and FAT on the image. But mkfatimage16 already > creates the FAT anyway. Thanks for this tip about mkfatimage16, but even using this I did not succeed. I tried it as follows: - in ~/.dosemu/drives deleted c - in ~/.dosemurc put $_hdimage = "/home/jws/dostemp" - called (from /home/jws) mkfatimage16 -k 60000 -f dostemp - called xdosemu -A with the first ms-dos 6.22 floppy in the drive Is this correct? I can't think of anything else, but anyway the setup program did not like it. It said: Microsoft MS-DOS 6.22 Setup --------------------------- Formatting Hard Disk Drive Please wait; Setup is formatting your hard disk drive. Error Setup cannot install MS-DOS 6.22 on your computer. An error was detected while formatting your primary hard disk partition. . Press ENTER to exit Setup. The strange thing is that if you choose to "exit" and then call "format c:" from a:, it works without complaints (but of course this does not, by itself, install ms-dos). Apparently the setup program does not recognise that the C: drive is already "formatted", and you cannot make it skip this "formatting" step. Regards, Jan