THE FREEDOS 1.0 FINAL DISTRIBUTION

CD-ROM BASED INSTALLATION INFORMATION

Updated by Jeremy Davis <jeremyd@computer.org>
13 July 2003
Updated by Blair Campbell <blairdude@gmail.com>
11 August 2006

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This FreeDOS CD-ROM is intended to allow one to boot the FreeDOS
kernel and then either install FreeDOS to a hard drive, or run FreeDOS
(use the included programs) directly from the CD.

Please visit http://www.freedos.org for more information about FreeDOS

A  What is on this CD (Layout)
B  How do I run (or install) FreeDOS from this CD
C  Creating a custom boot floppy to use with this CD
D  Reporting problems


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A  What is on this CD (Layout)
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This CD contains a complete (except for the source install sets) FreeDOS
installation in \FREEDOS\ which is used by the installation 
routines.  Additionally, all install sets have been zipped into 
\FREEDOS\PACKAGES\ (so you may omit any instructions that
specify to unzip install sets such as BASE1.ZIP, UTIL1.ZIP, ...) thus
you may use <cdrom>:\FREEDOS\PACKAGES\ as the source for 
installation purposes.

If you want to start the install process from the CD-ROM without booting it,
try running \SETUP.BAT.

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B  How do I run (or install) FreeDOS from this CD
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\SETUP.BAT may be ran to initiate installing FreeDOS from this CD-ROM.
The installation must be performed using FreeCom.  If you booted using a
different command interpreter (such as one for another DOS) then you may need
to run \FDOS\BIN\COMMAND.COM /E:512 before begining the installation.

  X:\>SETUP.BAT

If you are having difficulties (your computer freezes or other odd
behaviour) when running FreeDOS from the CD (or during installation).
You may wish to use the DOS CD-ROM driver for your specific CD drive.
To do this with the bootdisk, replace \DRIVER\XCDROM.SYS with the driver
specific to your CD-ROM drive.

For ATAPI (IDE) drives we provide a cdrom-driver on the bootdisk.

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C  Creating a custom boot floppy to use with this CD
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If you are unable to boot from the CD-ROM, you may still use it to
install FreeDOS by creating a boot floppy.  To aid in this, there is
a generic FreeDOS CD installation bootdisk builder on the CD that can
be used to create a disk useful for this purpose.
\FREEDOS\SETUP\BATCH\BOOTDISK.BAT

i    Write it to a floppy (option 3, or above mentioned batchfile)
ii   Boot using the floppy (with the FreeDOS CD in your CD drive)
iii  Continue installation just as though you booted directly from the CD

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D  Reporting problems
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If you run into problems there are several avenues you may try.
If the problem is in one of the Base FreeDOS programs you should report
the problem using bugZilla.  http://www.freedos.org/freedos/bugs/
Other related issues may also be reported there.  
For problems related to the distribution (program XYZ is missing, please
don't include program ZZ3, document NNN should say 'dkdkdk', etc.)
please email me: blairdude@gmail.com
For general FreeDOS related issues, try the FreeDOS mailing lists: 
http://www.freedos.org/freedos/lists/.

Information is obtainable online without the need to subscribe from the 
following sources:
 * http://www.freedos.org/
 * http://www.freedos.org/freedos/lists/ 
 * http://www.freedos.org/freedos/bugs/

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  FreeDOS is a trademark of Jim Hall. 
  It was claimed as a trademark to prevent its possible abuse or misuse.
  The name FreeDOS may be used by the FreeDOS community to refer to 
  programs that are part of the FreeDOS operating system, or to associate
  their programs with FreeDOS.
