That Cloying Taste of Failure

Well that didn’t take long.

Despite repeated attempts, and an optimistic outlook FreeDOS just won’t install on my old laptop.

That’s not true.

GRUB cannot recognize the FreeDOS installation, throwing an Error 17. So the long and short of it I can’t use FreeDOS.

I think the reason is because of my bad hard drive–it has corrupted sectors. Puppy and Ubuntu GTK1.2 Remix managed to work around them, Windows Me dealt with them (since it was never installed with them) Xubuntu and FreeDOS both didn’t like them.

I’m kind of disappointed, but I may be able to unearth an even older candidate. We’ll see.