And I may add, if you can not boot from USB you should either purchase a legacy floppy or a legacy CD-ROM.
With help of those you may be even able to use these devices as a kicker to boot up USB. -mr Jonathan W. schrieb: > That depends. First, go into your BIOS and see if it supports booting from > USB; you should be able to find this out by going into the "Boot Order" > menu. If there's a USB option, then yes, you probably can; otherwise, no, > you'll have to find a floppy drive somewhere. > > If your computer is new enough that it doesn't have a floppy drive, it's > probably new enough that it should be able to boot from USB... just check > and see. If so, then I think there's a USB image for FreeDOS, but I'm not > sure where, someone else might know. > > Skyler > > On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 4:32 AM, gabriel borrageiro <gborrage...@hotmail.com >> wrote: > >> hello all, >> >> I don't have a floppy drive and my pc won't detect my usb based cdrom >> drive. >> Can I install freedos onto a usb drive and then onto my hard dive from the >> usb drive? >> I extracted the freedos cdrom image onto the usb drive and that did'nt work >> properly. >> >> regards >> >> Gabriel >> >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> Great search results, great prizes. BigSnapSearch.com Search >> now<http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/117442309/direct/01/> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Freedos-user mailing list >> Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user >> >> > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
