At 09:28 PM 11/17/2005 +0100, Bernd Blaauw wrote:
Michael Devore schreef:
(I do see that 256M Cruzer's can now be purchased for a mere 30 bucks,
but unfortunately between the new USB floppy drive for testing a laptop
with EMM386 VDS changes, the TASM upgrade, and the Red Cross thing, my
discretionary fund for FreeDOS is approximately 17 cents, at least
through early 2006.)
Do you have a Cruzer then? I've got a 1GB version, but BIOS probably will
handle it as harddisk.
No, I have a Lexar 256M JumpDrive that I use to boot FreeDOS. I would
consider buying a 256M Cruzer to match the original posters' for testing,
but that whole 17 cents, out-sourced loss of fat cushy contracts thing is a
problem. Here I must specify the USB flash disk as a USB-ZIP for it to
work in the boot sequence. USB-HDD, USB-FDD, USB-CDROM will not
work. Later BIOS versions can directly identify a USB stick and,
hopefully, work under their own designation.
Actually, my wife has a 1G Cruzer like yours, but pointed remarks from that
direction about not screwing up her cute drive by poking around its guts
and possibly killing it have made me rethink the whole "surreptitiously
borrow it in the middle of the night just to see what I can make it do" idea.
best step seems to be to follow guides with MSDOS first, then try with
FreeDOS, as some external tools might be specific to MSDOS (or its bootsector)
Except I remember having to directly hack the loader image of my JumpDrive
to get it to work as a bootable FreeDOS disk. So following the MS-DOS
instructions may be insufficient for most. Or many. Or some. Or maybe
just me.
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