On 11/07/2022 03:56, Bob Pryor wrote:
Hi Nico,
Are you interested in access to system hardware and files?
Or simply your editor and the files you are using on the usb drive?
And UEFI could be a problem if you are thinking of hardware not in your
control.
FreeDOS _might_ boot anywhere with a keyboard and compatible video, with
your usb as C: or A:.
Bob
On Sun, Jul 10, 2022 at 5:05 PM Nico via Freedos-user
<[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
hi,
I would like to create a minimal bootable image for a USB drive (or
other formats, maybe even floppies, but USB is the focus) that boots
into a single application (in my case, a custom minimal word processor,
although freeDOS EDIT is a decent start for what I want) to create a
kind of "typewriter on a USB drive", that will work on any hardware you
throw it at and provide an environment for writing in. (I understand
that this is very niche)
freeDOS seemed like an ideal platform for this to me, as it seems
small,
boots very fast, runs on all kinds of PC hardware, lets me develop my
application in C without having to go bare-metal, etc.
I understand that freeDOS can be installed from a booted USB drive, but
could I create a custom USB image that, instead of containing the
installer, contains my small word processor which starts at boot? Or is
freeDOS not a good base for this utility?
Thanks,
nico
_______________________________________________
Freedos-user mailing list
[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
<https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user>
_______________________________________________
Freedos-user mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
I'm only interested in the files on the USB drive. Also, I'm not sure if
this will have to run on EFI machines, my main target is like the
2000s-early 2010s laptops that some people seem to have lying around. My
main main target is specifically my laptop from that time period, and if
other people use it then that's cool too.
_______________________________________________
Freedos-user mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
