If you have the ability to boot CD-ROMs and have access to a CD-ROM burner, then consider trying this CD image. It provides a menu allowing you to choose between MINI or FULL install disks. Also available is just the ability to boot FreeDOS, useful for diagnostic purposes, BIOS upgrades or to just try FreeDOS.
Please keep in mind FreeDOS is still BETA software and there is no warranty, etc. for its use. Please backup any important data before use, as we [the FreeDOS developers, etc.] are not responsible for any damage or other as a result of its use.
This CD-ROM image is using:
ElTorito.sys DOS CD-ROM driver
copyright (c) 2000-2002 by Gary Tong and Bart Lagerweij
The homepage for the eltorito driver is http://www.nu2.nu/eltorito
To contact Bart Lagerweij: http://www.nu2.nu/contact/bart
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ISOLINUX and MEMDISK, ISO 9660/El Torito CD-ROMs bootloader
copyright H. Peter Anvin
The homepage for them is http://syslinux.zytor.com/
Note: There still may be some odd quirks when running FreeDOS
from CD-ROM, but it seems fine in my limited testing so I am
making this available to others. In some cases it may be
necessary to use the OEM CD driver for your CD drive.
Even if you can't boot CDs, this image can still be useful if
you create a boot disk and add CD support to it. Then you can either
install FreeDOS avoiding creating all the boot disks as \FREEDOS\INSTALL\DISKSETS\
contains all the necessary files, or to run the included FreeDOS
programs without installing them to your hard drive as \FREEDOS\FDOS\
has the full normally installed files.
The full ISO image is zipped to decrease amount to download. It must be unzipped to use.
fdbootcd.zip (about 39MB) Release 2.03 (Based on FreeDOS Ripcord Beta 08 H01) [September 15, 2002]
The main Ripcord site is at http://www.fdos.org/ripcord/
The main FreeDOS site is at http://www.freedos.org
Jeremy Davis
jeremyd@computer.org