Thank you David and Jerome. I used my Linux operating system's Unetbootin to create the FreeDOS USB installer.
It failed to boot. So I logged back in to my Linux, created a boot flag for the USB flash drive using GParted. It booted. There was a blue screen and I had only "Default" to choose from. Or I had to press tab for more options. I chose default, no options about what partition to install into, but it installed without problems, although it took awhile, maybe 20 minutes. I logged back in to the Linux OS, executed this in terminal: sudo update-grub FreeDOS did not appear as one of the operating systems to choose from. I opened GParted and saw that the 1GB (that's one GB) fat32 partition of the hard drive was empty (only 1.03MB was used). File Manager also shows that the fat32 partition was empty. So where did FreeDOS installed to? Did it even install at all? Thank you for your time! On Mon, Aug 19, 2019 at 7:52 PM Jerome Shidel <jer...@shidel.net> wrote: > On Mac, Linux & BSD, you can simply use the dd command line utility. > Windows will require additional software. > > On *nix, if you’re USB drive is /dev/sdg then something like the following > will do it: > > su umount /dev/sdg* > su dd if=FD12FULL.img of=/dev/sdg > > Just make sure you write to the USB device and not you hard disk. > > > On Aug 19, 2019, at 6:43 AM, David McMackins <cont...@mcmackins.org> > wrote: > > > > vmdk is a virtual machine image for VMWare. You want to use the img > > file. Use a disk imaging software to image your drive using the img file > > as the image. > > > > > > Regards, > > > > David E. McMackins II > > www.mcmackins.org www.delwink.com > > > >> On 8/19/19 5:39 AM, kaye n wrote: > >> Hello Friends > >> > >> In http://wiki.freedos.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page > >> > >> It says, > >> *If your computer doesn't have a CDROM drive,* use the USB fob drive > >> installer. Write this to a USB fob drive and boot it to start the > >> install. The "Full" and "Lite" versions install the same FreeDOS, but > >> the "Lite" installer does not contain some extra bonus software > packages. > >> > >> How exactly do I do that? The file FD12FULL.zip contains three files: > >> FD12FULL.img > >> FD12FULL.vmdk > >> README.md > >> > >> Do I just unzip these three to the USB flash drive and boot into the USB > >> drive? > >> I tried it and it didn't work. > >> > >> Sorry for my ignorance. > >> Thank you for your time. > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> 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 >
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