DOS ain't dead

Edit by rr: I moved your post from category "Announce" (default) to "Users".

So going over some tutorials and I'm pretty much stuff right after install. I spun up a full installation in Virtual Box and after running fdimples all that shows up in the left column is "Installed".

> Edit by rr: I moved your post from category "Announce" (default) to
> "Users".
>
> So going over some tutorials and I'm pretty much stuff right after install.
> I spun up a full installation in Virtual Box and after running fdimples all
> that shows up in the left column is "Installed".

Hi Phil!

1) Which FreeDOS version did you install? Please provide a link.
2) Which tutorials did you follow? Please provide links.
3) If there were any errors or warnings during installation, please post these here.
4) Please read paragraph "III) Recommendations not only for newbies" at Welcome to "DOS ain't dead"!.

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> > Edit by rr: I moved your post from category "Announce" (default)
> to
> > "Users".
> >
> > So going over some tutorials and I'm pretty much stuff right after
> install.
> > I spun up a full installation in Virtual Box and after running fdimples
> all
> > that shows up in the left column is "Installed".
>
> Hi Phil!
>
> 1) Which FreeDOS version did you install? Please provide a link.
> 2) Which tutorials did you follow? Please provide links.
> 3) If there were any errors or warnings during installation, please post
> these here.
> 4) Please read paragraph "III) Recommendations not only for newbies"
> at Welcome to "DOS ain't dead"!.

It's 1.2 full install

http://wiki.freedos.org/install/

I had to google for other errors which helps me tab and use raw in Virtual Box

No install errors after using raw after tab

(forwarded from Jim Hall via email):

> If you have the installation CDROM loaded when you run FDIMPLES,
> then you'll get the option to browse and install other packages.
>
> If you do not have the installation CDROM loaded when you run FDIMPLES,
> then you'll get exactly what ipahme sees.
>
> So I think ipahme did a Full install of FreeDOS 1.2, but upon reboot
> Virtualbox probably disconnected the FreeDOS 1.2 installation CDROM image.
> (I just did a complete reinstall of FreeDOS 1.2 Full and intentionally
> disconnected the ISO when I rebooted - and I got exactly this.)
>
> To fix:
>
> 1. Tell Virtualbox to use the ISO as the CDROM image
> 2. Reboot

BTW ....

FreeDOS 1.3-rc2 (release candidate 2, not final release) is much newer than 1.2 and presumably recommended instead.

You may also find interesting Jim's FreeDOS YouTube channel.