Hi Everyone Thanks very much for all the excellent posts here.
I am a little mixed up. One message seems to say that format /s will write solely to the boot sector while another says it won't.
I am being a bit lazy, I am using gparted under Slackware Linux. I formatted to Fat32. I ran qemu with -hda freedos.img -hdb /dev/sdc
freedos did not like the way that gparted formatted it so it reformatted it. It copied over files. I was able to boot the usb device under qemu, FreeDos came up just fine.
gparted says that that almost 15Mb are used on the USB key. du command says 0.
I would like to dd the minimal image of FreeDOS. If I write this to disk, and copy over, fdconfig.sys, command.com, an exe and an autoexec.bat that calls it, I think things should be good. Am I missing anything? Is it only a minimal pre-kernel in the boot sector? Do I also need to copy over the kernel?
I work with scientific instruments. Surely, as per your industry, there are too many people trying to sell "new and improved" items. There are people selling new scientific instruments that are hardly better than the old ones and in many cases are worse. Lots of people have old computers with ISA cards lying around that could control their old instruments but they don't have the software to run nor the staff to write software for it.
So the requirements are soft real time, astronauts will not suffocate etc :) Thanks again to all-Pat _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
