Using a bootable USB stick 'USBANY' with miscellaneous FreeDOS 1.1 working files on it and following Tom's short notes I made the fixed disk bootable. "Fine". But the nasty sting in my question was how does one install FreeDOS 1.12 on a virgin fixed disk ? The venerable FreeDOS has advanced to version 1.12 without a straightforward method of installing it directly on a new computer. How idiot am I? Well I have crossed hundreds of battlefields since starting with CP/M and PDP-8. Thanks for the help. ________________________________ De : Raymond Bathurst <raymond.bathu...@dbmail.com> Envoyé : mardi 6 novembre 2018 08:51 À : Discussion and general questions about FreeDOS. Objet : Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS on SSD
rufus will make a USB or a CF bootable with the PC (which has the fixed SSD). The difficulty is making the fixed SSD bootable. The DOS working files can be copied from a convenient USB stick. For some applications DOS is far faster than the pixel-mapped systems. You don't need a luxurious Mercedes to move a box of chocolates down the road. Thank you for your comments. ________________________________ De : Tom Ehlert <t...@drivesnapshot.de> Envoyé : lundi 5 novembre 2018 20:31 À : Discussion and general questions about FreeDOS. Objet : Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS on SSD >> Can anyone recommend an IDIOT-proof method of installing FreeDOS 1.2 on >> a fixed SSD drive (with no OS) via one of several USB ports ? 1st, a fixed SSD behaves *exactly* like a ((fast) rotating disk. 2nd, I have no idea how much IDIOT you are, but most likely ANYDOS is not your best option to go. 3rd, I don't know if the freedos installation process is RAYMOND-proof, but it's the best we have to offer. > I don't have any SSDs, though, this might be true. > and you need an OS with "TRIM" support this is complete BS. (capital letters intentionally). (TRIM isn't useless, but it's not *needed* in any way) > It's just that overall DOS (sadly) has less hardware > support for such modern devices, and FreeDOS is no exception. SSDs don't need any support that is not already there: they behave like hard disks. Tom _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
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