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Disgusted by FreeDOS 1.3RC installation CD (Users)

posted by glennmcc Homepage E-mail, North Jackson, Ohio (USA), 29.04.2021, 20:26

> > 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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