Hello, all: I'm fiddling with booting FreeDOS from USB sticks. If a computer has the correct BIOS, I have this working well with MS-DOS and hope to get it running with FreeDOS.
How can I get a "clean" and reasonably easy install of FreeDOS on a drive other than C:? The only machine I have which has BIOS support for booting USB memory devices has two FAT32 partitions...a primary one for multi-booting dos and a logical partition for sharing between Linux and Windows. The BIOS maps both of these drives (as C: and D:) when I boot the CD. Apparently, it isn't possible even to set the "hidden" flag on a logical partition, and setting the "hidden" flag on the primary partition doesn't seem to hide it anyway. The FreeDOS installer appears to absolutely insist on writing a boot sector and some other stuff to C: even if you request an installation to something like E:\fdos. I can do a "SYS E:" and get the USB stick to boot. I can copy the ODIN directory from the CD and get a reasonably functional installation of FreeDOS. I suppose I could spend a few hours looking at the installation CD, figuring out where to find all of the configuration files, and manually copying them, but I was hoping for an easier way. Maybe I could dig out the SUBST command (doesn't seem to be in ODIN) and fake it out that way, or... Any ideas? :-) Thanks in advance. Mark ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IntelliVIEW -- Interactive Reporting Tool for open source databases. Create drag-&-drop reports. Save time by over 75%! Publish reports on the web. Export to DOC, XLS, RTF, etc. Download a FREE copy at http://www.intelliview.com/go/osdn_nl _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
