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145 lines
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FreeDOS 1.4 ("FreeDOS 1.4")
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General system requirements:
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* DOS-compatible system (Intel + BIOS, or UEFI with Legacy support)
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* At least 20MB free disk space:
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20MB Plain DOS system
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30MB Plain DOS system, with sources
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275MB Full installation including applications and games
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450MB Full installation with sources
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What's in all those zip files?
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FD14-LiveCD.zip
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* FD14BOOT.IMG - Basic FreeDOS installation boot floppy image.
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If your computer has a CD-ROM drive, but you cannot boot from the Live CD
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or Legacy CD. Use this diskette image to boot the system. Then insert the
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install CD. The FreeDOS installer should do the rest. This diskette
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image is for installation purposes only and does not provide a Live
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Environment.
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* FD14LIVE.ISO - The FreeDOS 1.4 installer. Most users should
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use this image to install FreeDOS.
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Depending on your computer system and hardware configuration, you
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can also use the LiveCD to boot and run FreeDOS directly from the
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CD-ROM without installation to your hard drive.
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FD14-LegacyCD.zip
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* FD14BOOT.IMG - This zip archive also contains a copy of the basic
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CD-ROM installation boot floppy.
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* FD14LGCY.ISO - A bootable CD image designed for older hardware. If
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you cannot boot the LiveCD to install FreeDOS, try this disc image.
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This disc image uses the older El Torito boot CD format. Some newer
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computers and virtual machines cannot use this older format. Unless
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you have a computer that requires this type of bootable CD, we
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recommend using the LiveCD instead.
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FD14-BonusCD.zip
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* FD14BNS.ISO - A non-bootable CD image that contains some FreeDOS
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packages that are not installed as part of either the LiveCD or
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the Legacy CD.
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FD14-LiteUSB.zip
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* FD14LITE.IMG - A minimal FreeDOS installer, as a USB fob drive
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image. This does not contain all of the packages from either the
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LiveCD or the LegacyCD, and instead only contains a basic set of
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FreeDOS packages.
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* FD14LITE.VMDK - A virtual machine disk file, compatible with a
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variety of virtual machine software including VirtualBox, VMware,
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and other systems.
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Using a VMDK file can simplify installing FreeDOS. Just attach the
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VMDK image to your virtual machine software as a hard drive, and
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boot it. (Please note that you will still need to create a virtual
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hard disk to install FreeDOS)
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FD14-FullUSB.zip
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* FD14FULL.IMG - Plain DOS system and Full install USB stick image.
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* FD14FULL.VMDK - A virtual machine disk file, compatible with a
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variety of virtual machine software. Just attach the VMDK image to
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your virtual machine as a hard drive, and boot it.
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VERIFY.TXT
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* Contains MD5, SHA256 and SHA512 hashes for all of the different
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release files. You can verify your copy of FreeDOS with these.
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README.TXT
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* The "before you choose and install" document. (All of the zip
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files listed above also have a copy of the README file.)
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FreeDOS Floppy-Only Edition (FD14-x86)
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FreeDOS 1.4 includes a Floppy-Only Edition! This edition should run on
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any hardware that can run FreeDOS and has EGA or better graphics:
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* Are you running a '286 or another classic system without a CD-ROM
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drive? Install from these floppies to install FreeDOS.
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* Do you have just one hard drive and no CD or floppy drive? Just
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copy the contents of the floppies to a temporary directory and run
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the installer from there.
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* Want to perform a "headless" install to a different DOS directory?
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It's easy with the command line options.
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The Floppy-Only Edition uses a completely different installer than
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the CD-ROM or USB installers. The Floppy-Only Edition does not use
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any of those other media to install.
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The Floppy-Only Edition contains a limited set of FreeDOS programs
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that are more useful on classic PC hardware.
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The FreeDOS Floppy-Only Edition is distributed as single zip archive that
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contains several pre-made floppy diskette images:
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These zip archives contain image files for several common floppy
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diskette media under separate directories:
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* 720k - 3.5" 720k diskette images
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* 144m - 3.5" 1.44mb diskette images
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* 120m - 5.25" 1.2mb diskette images
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Each of those sets contain a number of pre-made disk images:
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* x86BOOT.img - A floppy boot disk image with the x86 installer.
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* x86DSK??.img - Several floppy diskette images that contain the
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core FreeDOS operating system files. The number of floppy images
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and amount of files on each varies depending on the diskette
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capacity.
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To conserve space, the FreeDOS Floppy-Only Edition does not contain
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the source code for the FreeDOS packages. You can find the source code
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via the FreeDOS website (https://www.freedos.org/download/) or from
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the other release media, like the USB or CD-ROM installer.
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