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2004-09-28

The FreeDOS Beta 9 Distribution is now available on ibiblio and Fdos.org. This release is available as an ISO image

For your convenience we also provide a 1.44MB bootdisk image.
(A complete diskette distribution still lacks, though.)


please see the (rewritten)   readme file for more info.

Dear FreeDOS user,

I'm proud to announce you the final version of the FreeDOS Distribution Beta9 series. The aim of this release was to update software components, to facilitate installation, to actually offer the disksets on diskettes again, and to make sure FreeDOS cooperates nicely with any previous installed operating system. Credits to Eric Auer for the OScheck utility.

Features and important updated components of this release candidate:

Despite this being the final Beta9 distribution it still only contains the BASE diskset and the corresponding sources for it.
A more complete version is expected in the near future, when we start on Beta 10 or Pre-1.0 releases, because of people contributing more than 10 years on the FreeDOS project, the released software is almost ready for a 1.0 release. Therefore we ask you to help us add items to the FreeDOS 1.0 ToDo list and to resolve the remaining issues.

Beta9 can be obtained from Ibiblio.

With kind regards,

Bernd Blaauw

Other disksets have not been included due to lack of time and diskspace  (and especially download time) The ISO file (cdrom image) can be recreated by running MAKEISO.BAT from the ISOLINUX directory, even directly from cdrom. If you want to add your own content, first copy FreeDOS cdrom contents to harddisk, then add your own files, and finally run MAKEISO.


Mirrors of this Beta9 release candidate:


Were you looking for the source code?

You may want to visit the FreeDOS developer page at SourceForge to get the source for the kernel, FreeCOM, and Install program. For more source code to FreeDOS, refer to the maintainers list.

Files archive:

Primary download at ibiblio (formerly Sunsite):

Mirrors of the FreeDOS files archive:


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