It's worth labelling the disks with their main names - full or mini and then base, edit, language and utility. With preparation complete, the PC needs to be restarted with the mini or full boot disk. This will leave you at the FreeDos command line. The installation routine is then run, and you'll be prompted to change disks as required. With the full edition of FreeDos, some of the packages are optional, and you'll need to be on hand to answer any questions that pop up.
Installation can take half an hour or more.
Although this will depend on the speed of the PC, floppy disk access in FreeDos is known to be quite slow. The two hidden system files with Dos are normally Io.sys and Msdos.sys, or Ibmbio.sys and Ibmdos.sys. FreeDos combines these into a single file called Kernel.sys, and its installation routine does not make the destination disk bootable. You therefore have to run the Sys command to make sure the C drive boots up into FreeDos. Starting Line Following a reboot, my test PC started to run FreeDos.