Tuesday, August 17, 2021

Compaq Portable 386 - adventures in FreeDOS

I had a spare CF card, so I decided to give FreeDOS a try.

They had a set of floppy images that I could use so I popped in the CF card and booted the boot image and started the install.

Issue: The setup formatted and set up the non-active DOS partition to be bootable.  It took me a bit to figure that out and why it wasn't booting from the CF card, but that was easy to fix.

There are some more things I need to configure about it to get it 100%, but I decided it wasn't worth it at this time.

Bottom line: I saw no benefit to using FreeDOS over DOS 3.30 for the Compaq (at least for my use).


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