what is a Free-Dos OS?

[JCROCCO]

Looking to buy a barebones system with no OS, but it says it has free-dos. I want to install XP on it. It says it can handle other OS's. Do I just reformat and/or repartition the drive when installing XP or do I need to leave the freedos OS on there? Never dealt with Free-Dos before.

Any advice on this is appreciated.

 

[ch33zw1z]

Repartition should do the trick. Link to system?

 

[TheStu]

As ch33sw1z said, just reformatting should do the trick. FreeDOS is probably a basic CLI OS, much as DOS was back in the day.

Just put your XP disk in and away you go.

 

[JCROCCO]

thanks, heres the link.

link to system

It should be faster than my P4 2.8, 533 fsb, 2 gig ddr, 5400rpm 30 gig hd, APG4X graphics.

Its a celeron, but this machine will really be used for email and internet, and small programs, no gaming or cad.

Let me know your thoughts.

 

[dclive]

The cheap Dell of the moment (check the typical pages - hot deals, slickdeals, etc.) will give you a far better deal; this won't be significantly faster than your current setup and in some ways might even be slower (granted, dual core - but it's at 1.6).

 

[RadiclDreamer]

Originally posted by: dclive
The cheap Dell of the moment (check the typical pages - hot deals, slickdeals, etc.) will give you a far better deal; this won't be significantly faster than your current setup and in some ways might even be slower (granted, dual core - but it's at 1.6).

And is celeron

 

[SilentRunning]

Originally posted by: JCROCCO
Looking to buy a barebones system with no OS, but it says it has free-dos. I want to install XP on it. It says it can handle other OS's. Do I just reformat and/or repartition the drive when installing XP or do I need to leave the freedos OS on there? Never dealt with Free-Dos before.

Any advice on this is appreciated.

Free-DOS is a DOS "clone"