There MIGHT be an even easier way. With some newer BIOS's, you can boot FreeDOS (from CD or a floppy) with the stick plugged in and the stick will be mapped to C: or D: by the BIOS. If that happens, you can use FreeDOS to write the boot sector (SYS C: or SYS D:) and install it directly from FreeDOS.
This seems to work on newer computers more often than not. It's a lot easier than dealing with the HP Tool. Mark -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: "Florian Xaver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 2008/1/17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > How did you install the boot sector? > > Did you just write a freedos 1.44MB image to it? > > I have a 256MB pen drive that I would like to make bootable if I can use > > the whole drive. > > No - there are two ways - one for linux (Eric wrote a script) and one > program for Windows from HP: HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool > > I used this program for writing the bootsector and formating of the > usb-stick (FAT32). > It works like a big floppy (I have 256MB-USB-Stick) now. After that I > installed many useful tools and programs... > > Bye > Flo > > PS: In the FreeDOS-Wiki is un article about this topic. > > -- > Club Dr-DOS Wiki http//www.drdos.org > private page http://www.flox.at.tf > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
