Hi, On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 3:11 PM, Wayne Graves <[email protected]> wrote: > > I needed something standalone to run dos disk tools with and was hoping to > use Freedos.
DOS disk tools on FreeDOS? Shouldn't be a problem. ;-) > I was also trying to figure out a way to get Spinrite to run on a fob. Spinrite (famously?) works with FreeDOS, though I've not tried personally. http://www.grc.com/sr/faq.htm "SpinRite is self-contained, including its own bootable FreeDOS operating system" > I don't have any systems with floppy drives anymore and I discovered > that I can't boot freedos from a CD with my current configuration, I wonder if latest UIDE would work better (assuming you're only using "old" FD 1.0 from 2006). If you're adventurous (and willing to accept alpha quality bugs), try 1.1 test #3. http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.1-test3/ > I suspect > it's because I am in AHCI for the SATA interfaces but having a FOB is a > better solution since I have systems that don't have a CD/DVD or a floppy No floppy I would understand (though USB drives exist), but no CD/DVD? Must be a netbook. > and all of them have USB's and if the problem is AHCI it's a pain to go into > the BIO's and switch back and forth continuously to try out some standalone > tool. Don't worry, MS Win8 will "fix" that for you. :-P > If I can build fobs with everything on them that I can boot it makes > it all earier since they are so easy to transport For completeness, I'm listing this (though you don't need floppies), aka Rawrite for Windows: http://www.chrysocome.net/rawwrite If you don't need persistent (modifiable) storage, you can use UNetBootIn: http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/ > and it' hard to get a CD in your pocket ;) Mini-CDs might work (e.g. "old" DamnSmallLinux swore by them) though I dunno if all drives handle them. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
