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["Theo Perry" <theo.perry AT xtra.co.nz>]

Hi,
I succeeded in booting BL3 from Freedos after a quite a lot of trial and
error. If I recall correctly, in the first instance I partitioned the
hard drive using Ranish Part Manager and used the same utility to format
the dos partition. I had problems installing Freedos as my old 486 did
not have a CD booting ability. The boot floppy image had a CD driver
that did not function with my CD. I got around that by installing the
hard drive into a newer machine that could boot from a CD and installing
Freedos.

The hard drive was refitted into the 486 and BL3 was installed. It would
not boot. I cannot remember the problem, but think it was to do with the
memory manager. I then made a boot floppy using Freedos, deleted the
Freedos installation and used sys c: to put the Freedos system files
only onto the hard drive. On reinstalling BL3 it booted fine. This
method was probably a bit roundabout, but I could not unravel the
autoexec.bat and config.sys files to prevent the starting of the
troublesome function.

Regrettably, I then wiped the whole thing by playing around
(unsuccessfully) with FreeBSD, so the above is very much from memory. I
do recall that I was not successful in starting BL3 in one 486 with 8meg
of RAM, but did succeed with a different machine with 16meg RAM.

Hope this helps

Theo

-----Original Message-----
From: baslinux-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:baslinux-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of James Miller
Sent: Friday, 25 June 2004 2:53 p.m.
To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [BL] BL3 reports=>Freedos

Whoever onlist previously said they'd gotten BL3 to boot and then
successfully startx - I'd like to hear more from you.  The Freedos I
installed does *not* allow me to successfully run startx once booted
into
BL3.  Its memory managers likewise seem to be interfering.  The downside
of all this is that Freedos doesn't have the menuing capabilites of
M$DOS,
so the menu I had made up for another M$DOS machine (allowing to skip
startup files) was useless.  I fiddled around trying to find a way to
edit
the menu such that I could select bypassing startup files as an option,
but have come up empty on that.  If anyone knows how to make a menu item
for a Freedos start menu that will allow skipping startup files, please
pitch in and say so.  The only way I could finally get around them (or
around autoexec.bat, which is what seemed to be causing the problems)
was
to hit F5 when the menu appeared.  After that I was finally able to
successfully run startx once booted into BL3.

James

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