UPDATE It seems it installed in the USB installer itself! On Mon, Aug 19, 2019 at 8:06 PM kaye n <guik...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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