A. Flash to the latest released BIOSB. Tattoo the system and the Channel field to “LX”Load BIOS Setup Defaults and Save Settings
Boot back into the BIOS and verify PNPOS is set to “No”C. If you’re planning using a Grantsdale system to create the FreeDOS image:During BIOS post press <F11>.Verify that in the BIOS’s “Advanced” section that the “Onboard PATA/SATA Configuration setting” is set to “Combined Mode”, the default is “Enhanced Mode”.If you don’t do this you may not be able 1. To boot to the CD-ROM devices using the SystemResourceCD2. and/or you may not see your Fat32 partitions that were created in FreeDOSNote: All FreeDOS Grantsdale systems will be shipped with “Enhanced Mode” as default.
What You’ll Need:
FreeDOS beta 9 ISO: downloaded and burned to CD (1)This will be used for creating the Fat32 Image only!SystemResouceCD ISO: downloaded and burned to CD (2)myimage.000 file (FreeDOS HDD Image): downloaded and burned to a CD (3):This file must be burn onto a disk in a single session. Do not use a disc that has multiple sessions, because Linux may not be able to read it.
A system with 2 CD-ROM drives and 1 Master HDD
Note: You MAY need to create a separate Master HDD Image for
1. EACH HDD configuration
A. PATAVersus
B. SATA2. And for EACH HDD size
Note: RAID – Imaging process with RAID not yet supported with FreeDOS
Under investigation
Creating the FreeDOS Master HDD:
Part I:
Creating the Fat32 Partition using FreeDOS beta 9
Turn on the PC and insert the FreeDOS Beta 9.0 CD into the CD drive.
Turn off the PC.
Turn on the PC. The computer boots from the FreeDOS CD.
At the FreeDOS splash screen, (Warning: HD boots in 15 seconds!)
Enter: 1 and press <Enter>
Select 2) Boot without XMS attempt cdrom loading
Enter: 2
This next screen will only come up if the HDD already has partitions
Select 1) Start installation of FreeDOS beta9
Enter: 1
Press any key at “THE FREEDOS BETA 9 DISTRIBUTION” page.
Press <Esc> to exit out of the FreeDOS DETAILED INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS page
Select 1) Partition harddisk using fdisk
Enter: 1
You should be familiar with the next screens – Same as MS-DOS
Do you want to use large disk [Fat32] support {Y/N} [Y]
Press <Enter> for Yes
For Unpartitioned HDDs, skip down to “Create a Primary Fat32 FreeDOS Partition”
For HDD previously partitioned for other OS’s, first
View the Partition information
At the “Choose one of the following:” prompt
Select 4. Display partition information
Enter: 4 and press <Enter>
Note all partitions (if any) that are present (Primary, Extended, Logical, Non-DOS/NTFS), because you will need to delete them all.
When done, press <Esc>
Delete all partitions
At the “Choose one of the following:” prompt
Select 3. Delete partition or Logical DOS Drive
Enter: 3 and press <Enter>
Delete any Primary, Extended, Logical, Non-DOS/NTFS partitions
Create a Primary Fat32 FreeDOS Partition
At the “Choose one of the following:” prompt
Select 1. Create DOS partition or Logical DOS Drive
Enter: 1 and press <Enter>
Select 1. Create Primary DOS Partition
Enter: 1 and press <Enter>
When prompted,
”Do you wish to use the maximum available size for a Primary DOS Partition and make the partition active (Y/N)….? [Y]
Press <Enter> for Yes
When “Primary DOS Partition created” message appears, press <Esc>
Press <Esc> again and then TURN OFF the system at the prompt:
System will now restart
Press any key when ready…
Part II:
Imaging the FreeDOS image (myimage.000) onto the HDD using the SystemResourceCD
Turn on the system and remove the FreeDOS beta 9 CD.
Insert the SystemResourceCD (CD 2) into the top CD-ROM drive
Insert the myimage.000 CD (CD 3) into the bottom CD-ROM drive
Turn off the system
Turn on the system and boot to the SystemResourceCD
At the “Enter to boot:” prompt, press <Enter>
Keymap selection:
Enter: 41 for “us” and press <Enter>
You should be booted to the Linux command prompt of the SystemResourceCD if everything went fine.
Linux Virtual Console # 1/6
root@cdimage /root %
Mounting the second CD-ROM drive:
At the prompt enter:
root@cdimage /root % mkdir /mnt/mydir
root@cdimage /root % mount –t iso9660 /dev/hdd /mnt/mydir
root@cdimage /root % cd /mnt/mydir
root@cdimage /root % partimage
Partition Imaging Utility: PartImage 0.6.4
Identifying the correct Partition information before continuing:
If the “Partition to save/restore” section reports
“ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 -unknown- [HDD size] ” this is correct.
Verify the HDD size is also correct.
However, if your drive has either
1. No partition defined
2. More than 1 partition defined
Repeat Part I: Creating the Fat32 Partition using FreeDOS beta 9
There must be ONLY 1 Fat32 Partition defined.
Having more than 1 partition defined or no partition defined will lead to improper results.
E.g. You will either be
A. Booted back out of the partimage program (No partition defined)
B. Or the system will not be able to boot from the HDD image when imaging is complete. (Occurs when installing the FreeDOS image to a non-active partition)
Using the Partition Imaging Utility:
Press <Tab>
In the “Image file to create/use” box
Enter: myimage.000
Press <Tab>
Press the down arrow to select “Restore partition from an image file” and
Press the <Spacebar> to select this option.
Press <F5> to Continue
At the “freedos [OK]”,
Press [OK]
Press <F5> to Continue
FAT information page
Press [OK]
Confirmation page
Press [YES]
It should take 5-6 seconds to image an IDE HDD
It should take 15-16 seconds to image a SATA HDD
At Click [OK], press [OK]
You should be booted out of the partimage program at this point
At the prompt, enter: halt –n
The systems should shut down automatically
For Grantsdale systems only: the system will not shut down automatically.
Turn off the system, when this last line appears
“Remounting remaining filesystems read only…”
Booting your FreeDOS Master HDD
Turn on the PC
Eject both CD-ROM drives and remove the media
Verify the system boots completely to the FreeDOS kernel version 1.1.32…
The last line should read:
“Select from Menu [012345678], or press [ENTER] – Singlestepping (F8) is: OFF
Turn off the system
Turn on the system
Verify the system boots completely to the FreeDOS kernel version 1.1.32…
Turn off the system
This will be the MASTER IMAGE that the factory should clone.
Label the MASTER IMAGE with the name of the motherboard it was created on.
Create submasters and test the image before replicating the MASTER IMAGE.
Originally posted by LiveOnLove at 2002-11-25 00:00:
我有在安全之星的DOS版杀毒软件中使用过FreeDOS,但是除了把它直接拷在硬盘中能用外,用软盘启动都会有软件不能运行的问题,老
是出现XXX在CS:IP错误,接着用DIR等一些DOS命令也显示不出一些对应的东西,总是出现#数字之类的提示。可能是它还有些不成熟吧
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