Jerome
Thanks for your detailed instructions - HOWEVER nothing seemed to work for me. With my Windows 10 computer, I could not even get to any install screen (for FD13 RC5), even IF I wanted to use full install USB stick for hard drive install (maybe I just misunderstood your instructions). So for instance I could not get to the FDISK stage. Using RUFUS to FAT32 format usb and the usb img file results in an error message (and the usb stick is "dead" now) - as below. I hope the following links (photos of attempts for FreeDOS install) are self-explanatory. When using RUFUS with FD img file https://www.dropbox.com/s/bevyd8dn2nfg18c/FreeDOS13_format_error.PNG?dl=1 BOOT screen (how I can select Windows or otherwise) https://www.dropbox.com/s/glpj72yjck4xrhl/BOOT%20IGP2197.JPG?dl=1 With FD 13 RC5 on NTFS formatted usb stick (booting from this) --> no OS https://www.dropbox.com/s/x3lh2tu6w6lbfoc/noOS_IGP2203.JPG?dl=1 Using RUFUS to format FAT32 with RUFUS version of FreeDOS https://www.dropbox.com/s/x4cf6dg4d440g30/Rufus%20IGP2204.JPG?dl=1 What RUFUS supplies as FreeDOS https://www.dropbox.com/s/z70835deg3npqdy/c%3B%60LOCALE%60_IGP2195.JPG?dl=1 https://www.dropbox.com/s/52gx0rwnmkevbta/c%3Blocale%60%60_IGP2196.JPG?dl=1 AUTORUN.inf ; Created by Rufus 3.17.1846 ; https://rufus.ie [autorun] icon = autorun.ico label = 16 GB J:\>type autoexec.bat @echo off set PATH=.;\;\LOCALE echo Using US-English keyboard with US-English codepage [437] So to sum up - all I have now is a usb stick, formatted by Rufus, with next to nothing of FreeDOS files. Could I just download the individual FreeDOS files and simply copy them onto the Rufus usb stick (or is it not that simple)? Thanks Richard ________________________________ From: Jerome Shidel <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, 27 December 2021 1:06 PM To: FreeDOS Developers <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] Bare Metal installation of FreeDOS Hi, > On Dec 26, 2021, at 5:32 AM, [email protected] wrote: > > I am investigating installing FreeDOS 1.3 RC5 as a bare metal installation > (i.e. everything is on a 16 GByte USB stick) and will try to boot off the USB > stick (i.e. the USB stick becomes the C:\ drive and so the hard drive with > Windows 10x64 is not accessible). > > I have never used FreeDOS before - a while ago I experimented with a RUFUS > formatted USB stick FAT32 and used same as a bare metal setup for DOS (and > with some 30 year old 16 bit software and a special DOS version recent > software package). > > A partial list of DOS-type files on the USB stick include HIMEM.exe > UMBPCI.sys MEM.exe MORE.exe EMMEX.exe EMM386.exe XDVD2.sys RDISK.com and > others (all are dated later than 2005). > > At this stage I wish to avoid say using (DOSbox and DOSbox-X) and Virtual > Machine. > > > From my experimenting with above I was happy to, from DOS environment, to > actually access a 3200x1800 display (though I did end up with only about 240 > colors - not millions of colors). There were a number of issues I could not > sort out with my previous bare metal configuration. > > The computer I am using has an INTEL i7 x64, 256 GByte PCIe SSD, 4TByte SSD, > built-in DVD drive, 32 GByte RAM and 3200x1800 display. The computer is about > 8 years old. > > If I understand correctly, all your releases are for actual installation on a > hard drive - i.e. not for installation onto a USB BOOT stick. Because I had > serious problems when I previously tried to have dual boot (Windows initially > installed + LINUX later) - resulting in computer not being useable for 2 > weeks until I could finally completely re-install Windows + apps - I do not > wish to install anything onto the hard drive (at this stage). > > Is it possible to have a zip file of the individual FreeDOS programs - so > that I can copy same to my already FAT32 formatted USB stick (i.e. as a > "parallel" DOS-type operating system)? > > I look forward to using FreeDOS, though I may be initially faced with various > issues for my bare metal configuration requirements. There is a way to install FreeDOS to a USB stick by only using a USB drive… • Download FD13-FULL usb stick images. • On a Unix, Linux or macOS use dd to write that image to the Flash Drive. There should be a Windows equivalent to dd (I don’t know what it is). The image should be written as-is and not stretched or modified by the program writing it. • Boot the Flash Drive and exit the installer. • Use FDISK to manually create an additional partition on the USB stick and reboot again. • Use FDISK to identify the drive letter assigned to the new partition and exit. (I will assume it is E:) • Change directories to C:\FDOS-x86 • Run “setup E:\FREEDOS” • (answer the prompts, and install FreeDOS) • Reboot There is a minor bug in the FloppyEdition installer that I just discovered while doing this myself. Once the system reboots, there will be an error loading the shell (COMMAND.COM). Until the next OS release, this is how you fix it. • type “C:\COMMAND.COM” and hit enter • type “FREEDOS\BIN\EDIT FDCONFIG.SYS” and press enter • there are two lines near the end that will have “/C:1024” change them to “/E:1024”, save and exit. • reboot That should provide you with a BASE FreeDOS install. The original partition will still be available and you can use FDIMPLES or another package manager to add or remove different programs as needed. There is a way to do something similar using the Primary Installer. However depending on your hardware and BIOS, using the FloppyEdition installer is more reliable. :-) Jerome _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
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