Installing #FreeDOS on actual hardware (a 486dx40) and it's like watching paint dry. I had completely forgotten how slow things were back then :)

The first disk took the longest to process (about 20 minutes). After the second disk it started to pick up the pace, and have me changing disks every few minutes. I'm on disk 4 of 7 now. Fingers crossed it'll end up with a working installation!

Somehow it didn't want to see the entire 1GB CF card and only used half of it. I can live with that I believe.

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#RetroComputing #486

@gmc @freedosproject You possibly hit the 528 MB limit with your CF card https://aeb.win.tue.nl/linux/Large-Disk-4.html
Large Disk HOWTO: History of BIOS and IDE limits

@freedosproject @dada78641 Quite likely, this is an older motherboard, doesn't do LBA or any fancy tricks like that.