Hi kaye I may have missed it, but why are you installing on actual PC hardware? Why not install FreeDOS in a PC emulator? Then you can run FreeDOS and Linux at the same time. It's very easy.
You're running Linux, so you probably have QEMU already installed as part of your distribution. If you use GNOME, you may also have GNOME Boxes (which uses QEMU on the back end, anyway). You can also download and install VirtualBox, and use that to install and run FreeDOS. I wrote an article for OpenSource.com a few years ago, describing how to install and run FreeDOS on Linux using QEMU. You can find it here: https://opensource.com/article/17/10/run-dos-applications-linux Note that you define the virtual machine environment (the PC emulator) using options on the QEMU command line. So the command line can be very long, because you will want to specify the CDROM image, the hard drive image, the VGA card, and so on. But it's very simple. I put all of that in a script so I don't have to type it all the time. Even though you start QEMU from a command line, you are doing this under the graphical desktop environment - probably GNOME or KDE on most modern Linux distributions. (I use GNOME.) If you prefer a graphical environment, you can use VirtualBox. There's a very nice "how to" guide on the FreeDOS Wiki that describes how to do this: http://wiki.freedos.org/wiki/index.php/VirtualBox Jim On Mon, Aug 19, 2019 at 7:16 AM kaye n <guik...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >>> >> _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user >
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