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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/
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
Please see \FREEDOS\DOCS\ for further information.
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