I know someone has answered this question before, but how do I make bootable
freedos cd images I have mkisofs...?
I think it had something to do with a hard disk image and ISOLINUX and a VM, if
I am not mistaken. I have no specifics.
getting files into some VM's like VirtualBox is nigh to impossible though,
after freedos is loaded.
SHSUCDX and eltorito drivers no longer work as usual!
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>________________________________
>From: Eric Auer <e.a...@jpberlin.de>
>To: freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
>Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2011 3:56 AM
>Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] pretty soon no more floppy controllers, only usb
>floppies
>
>
>Hi Jim,
>
>while you can get even mainboards for socket AM3+ with
>floppy controllers (plus all the modern stuff as USB3)
>the question is whether you really NEED a floppy today
>
>> My reasons for needing a floppy are:
>
>> - development of diskwipe & mbr. it's convenient to make a floppy to
>> test with rather than making a lot of coasters for every test version
>> iteration...
>
>Since 1996 (!) you can buy rewriteable CD. Or if you
>need more space, use a rewriteable DVD. Cheap, too :-)
>
>> - usb zip drives can't be booted off of with older computers, takes
>> forever to format with dos. they are also notoriously unreliable for
>> data. read:click of death
>
>ZIP are indeed somewhat odd. But CD/DVD boot nicely.
>And apparently you can make diskimages which can be
>BOTH written to CD/DVD and USB and boot from either.
>
>With less fancy technology, make one for CD/DVD and
>another one (FAT based) for booting from USB sticks.
>
>> - drivers
>
>Drivers?
>
>> - sneakernet for small files
>
>USB sticks... Not every BIOS supports it and there
>is the problem of disk change. However, you *could*
>just reboot DOS after each USB disk change, because
>DOS boots fast and USB sticks have high capacity so
>even if your software does not support USB change...
>
>> - boot FreeDOS!
>
>The normal way for FreeDOS 1.0 was the CD/DVD ISO,
>I would say. We only have floppy distros for those
>who do not have CD/DVD drives yet, which are only
>a small group of users afaik... Also, I think nice
>ONE floppy distros simply make a nice boot CD/DVD
>boot floppy image...
>
>> I am wondering besides using the virtual floppy driver, how you do
>> without a floppy to make a bootable cd, hopefully with an image size
>> that is larger than.
>
>A standard BIOS should support 1200k, 1440k and 2880k
>boot floppy images on a bootable CD/DVD/BD. Also, you
>can use ISOLINUX and MEMDISK to use a disk image of
>any other size and boot a CD/DVD/BD from that then :-)
>
>Do not worry, ISOLINUX and MEMDISK do not CONTAIN any
>Linux at all - they are just ABLE to boot Linux... :-)
>
>Eric
>
>
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