I can boot anything and I have a system in the corner that has 12 TB of disk on
it which I can build anything on. I just want to know how to get a bootable USB
up with freedos running and maybe this will do it, thanks.
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From: Bernd Blaauw <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2011 3:41 PM
Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] sys.com not executable on Windows 7 64bit
Op 14-10-2011 0:25, Bret Johnson schreef:
> Using my USB drivers, it is possible to make a bootable USB disk or
> manipulate partitions just using standard DOS tools (FORMAT, FDISK, SYS,
> etc.). You don't necessarily need Windows or *nix to do that. The drivers
> still have a long ways to go before they're really "good", but can be useful
> even in their current limited state.
The problem more is like "how do I get my USB bootable with FreeDOS when
all I've got is a single harddrive, and no options to boot from external
sources".
Perhaps the Syslinux installers can be modified/butchered to suit
FreeDOS SYS.
Unfortunately geometry for USB Flash drives in general is different from
stick to stick, so providing standard (well-compressed) images is no
option either.
I'm not 100% convinced standard DOS FDISK/FORMAT/SYS will do the trick.
Lots of USB Flash drives are unpartitioned, lacking MBR, partitions,
bootsector etc. Also, getting an optimal (as in, bootable on as many
systems as possible, thus a hybrid zip/floppy/hdd layout) geometry is
tricky.
I've not tried yet to run SYSLINUX on USB drives from DOS though, it
might actually work as you say.
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