Hi Tony, > I already know how to make USB drives DOS (msdos) > bootable and write bootable images to them.
Well... Which tools do you use? Do you mean bootable diskette images? Or other images? To get a bootable FreeDOS diskette image, just pick one of the three disks on http://rugxulo.googlepages.com/ ... :-) Difference between the 3 is compatibility (8086 vs 386 or newer) and shell (FreeCOM vs 4DOS). Plus of course beyond booting they contain all sorts of apps. > The Freedos Installer does not allow the selection > of a USB drive in order to install Freedos to. True. Either your BIOS supports USB drives natively, then FreeDOS installer does support them, or you need USB drivers. All available USB drivers for DOS are made by hardware vendors or are otherwise commercial, so we cannot add them to our CDROM. Of course you can download a DOS USB driver and then do something like "SYS F:" using FreeDOS SYS to put DOS on your USB :-). > The only drive the installer would see is the C drive, > which contains XP Pro- but XP sees the USB drive just fine. Sure. Other than Windows 98, Windows XP already includes generic USB storage device drivers :-). > Does anyone have docs on how to install Freedos onto a USB drive? I forgot the URL, I think Mark had some docs about Dell tools for XP which can install FreeDOS to USB... But I found something else in my archive: Last september, Jari Turkia made USB boot images with FreeDOS 1.0 ... Enjoy :-) http://opensource.contentbakery.fi/freedos/FreeDOS%201.0%20bare_USB.img.bz2 http://opensource.contentbakery.fi/freedos/FreeDOS%201.0_USB.img.bz2 opensource.contentbakery.fi/freedos/fdfullcd%20JaTu-version%20w%20USB-drivers.iso.bz2 Eric PS: Of course 1.0 is quite old compared to the Rugxulo distro ;-) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
