The FreeDOS Project | Beta5 Errata

Seem Broken, But Aren't

• Some anti-virus software, including Norton's, will report that the install boot floppies contain a virus (usually reported as the "Bloodhound" virus.) This is a false positive; there is no virus.
• The Cutemouse mouse drive will fail to load unless you use the /W (TSR) command line option.

Broken

• Oops. I didn't build the html Help package correctly. It cannot find its HELP.HTM file. To fix this, copy the BIN\FILES\HELP.HTM file to BIN\HELP.HTM.
• Since I had to use FreeCOM 0.79a, there is a problem if you boot the install boot floppy on a system that does not have a writable C: drive (or C: is not formatted yet.) 0.79a always wrote to a log file C:\freedos.log for later debugging. The obvious side effect is that if C: is not writable (or isn't there) then it freaks out and hangs. So you could work around this by downloading 0.79c, do the install from that (it works fine from floppy) then change back to 0.79a when you boot from hard disk. I know it's a little weird, and if I can get a fix from Steffen (maintainer of freecom) I will definitely update the boot floppy.
• DWIN (GUI-1 install disk) is missing .bgi files, so if you run it you will get the message WTIE handled a graphics problem and then file not found.

Changes And Updates

• Yes, I know that the current version of FreeCOM is 0.79c, but I could not get this to work when I installed it. So I am using 0.79a, which seems to work fine.