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- FreeDOS Beta9 ("Methusalem") Distribution Bootable CD-ROM
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- INTRODUCTION:
-
- *CDROM
- +can be burned on 50MB cd or higher capacity
- +can be easily integrated on distribution cdroms,
- like magazines which want to promote FreeDOS.
- +bootable on modern computers if computer supports it
- (Intel Pentium or compatible, or newer computers)
- +easily recreated in case you want to update the cdrom,
- and customized versions are encouraged!
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- When booting from the CD or via a bootdisk based on the
- generic floppy images provided, the batch file
- \FREEDOS\SETUP\BATCH\AUTORUN.BAT is ran.
-
- If you are having problems accessing your CD using the
- supplied eltorito.sys driver, create a floppy by running
- \FREEDOS\SETUP\BATCH\BOOTDISK.BAT and add your CD drive's
- OEM provided DOS CD-ROM device driver. The batch file
- will prompt for your floppy drive (A: or B:), then
- extract the contents of the floppy image normally used
- during CD booting, and finally it will update the diskette
- boot file to match the geometry (360KB, 1.2MB, 1.44MB, ...)
- of the drive. Copy over your CD driver, then rename or
- edit CONFIG.SYS to match. Reboot and hopefully all is well!
-
- If you are unable to boot from the CD directly, i.e. you
- have an older Pentium or 486 class computer that entirely
- lacks or has broken El-Torito CD-ROM boot support, you
- may wish to create a floppy disk that contains SBM
- (Smart Boot Manager). Boot this floppy then select boot
- CD from its menu. For some CD drives you may have to
- tell SBM which I/O ports to use [common ones are 1f0, 170,
- 1e8, and 168]. http://btmgr.sourceforge.net/
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- For those on Windows based systems, you may use a program
- such as Daemon Tools (www.daemon-tools.com) to mount the
- ISO image as a drive. For those on Linux based systems
- with loopback support, simply mount the ISO image, e.g.
- mount fdcd.iso -r -t iso9660 -o loop /mnt
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- Please see \FREEDOS\DOCS\ for further information.
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- Bugs about included programs should be reported using bugzilla
- (http://www.freedos.org/bugs/), for general FreeDOS issues refer
- to the main FreeDOS site (www.freedos.org).
-
- When reporting bugs about an included program, please indicate the
- program's version number or indicate FreeDOS Beta9 Bootable CD.
- General FreeDOS questions should be sent to the FreeDOS mailing list
- so other developers that may have a better idea can help you.
-
- Thank you,
- Jeremy Davis
- August 21, 2003
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