Disgusted by FreeDOS 1.3RC installation CD (Users)
> > Yesterday I tried to use the FreeDOS 1.3RC installation CD. Because I
> found
> > a Dell Latitude610 notebook. And I am really dispappointed because it is
> > something really awful. The live system is unusable, the boot process
> ends
> > in the minimal configuration unable to do anything useful.
>
> Currently downloading this live CD...
>
> https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos...tributions/1.3/previews/1.3-rc3/FD13-LiveCD.zip
>
> Will report-back after it's burned and booted.
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I don't have any blank CDs so burned the ISO onto a DVD+RW disc
Booted it up on this Intel i5 machine which has a SATA DVD+RW drive
Chose the live option... result ...
ERROR: Unable to initialize CD-ROM drive.
A:\>
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So, booted it on the Intel DualCore machine which also has a SATA DVD+RW drive.
Chose the live option... result ...
ERROR: Unable to initialize CD-ROM drive.
A:\>
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Will now try booting it on the old-as-dirt circa 1997 P-II machine
which has an IDE/PATA DVD+RW drive.
BRB
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There we go... she's loading-up.
(quite slowly 'cus this P-II is only 266Mhz and has only 512MB of RAM)
OK.... loaded-up and sitting at....
R:\>
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So, SATA DVD+RW drives seem to be a no-go.
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Now sending this post to the FreeDOS sourceforge mailing list as-well.
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- Disgusted by FreeDOS 1.3RC installation CD - glennmcc, 29.04.2021, 21:14
- Disgusted by FreeDOS 1.3RC installation CD - RayeR, 30.04.2021, 14:59
- Disgusted by FreeDOS 1.3RC installation CD - mceric, 30.04.2021, 19:00
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- Disgusted by FreeDOS 1.3RC installation CD - tkchia, 01.05.2021, 20:21
- Disgusted by FreeDOS 1.3RC installation CD - mceric, 02.05.2021, 00:16
- Disgusted by FreeDOS 1.3RC installation CD - Ringding, 03.05.2021, 17:22
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- Disgusted by FreeDOS 1.3RC installation CD - tkchia, 01.05.2021, 20:21
- Disgusted by FreeDOS 1.3RC installation CD - RayeR, 03.05.2021, 22:49
- Disgusted by FreeDOS 1.3RC installation CD - Ringding, 01.05.2021, 18:23
- Disgusted by FreeDOS 1.3RC installation CD - glennmcc, 01.05.2021, 18:26
- Disgusted by FreeDOS 1.3RC installation CD - mceric, 30.04.2021, 19:00
- Disgusted by FreeDOS 1.3RC installation CD - RayeR, 30.04.2021, 14:59
- Disgusted by FreeDOS 1.3RC installation CD - glennmcc, 29.04.2021, 21:14
- Disgusted by FreeDOS 1.3RC installation CD - glennmcc, 29.04.2021, 20:43
- Disgusted by FreeDOS 1.3RC installation CD - glennmcc, 29.04.2021, 20:26
- Disgusted by FreeDOS 1.3RC installation CD - Laaca, 29.04.2021, 23:04