When a laptop manufacturer says the computer supports FreeDOS, it's
their way of stating 2 facts:
1. Their UEFI has CSM support.
2. They offer selling this laptop without a Windows license.
W dniu 01.12.2021 o 16:31, Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user pisze:
On Tuesday, November 30th, 2021 at 11:34 PM, dmccunney
dennis.mccun...@gmail.com wrote:
...
And this is not a machine you want to try to set up FreeDOS to run
from the bare metal on. Too much of the hardware is simply not
supported by any form of DOS. DOS stopped being sold and
supported long before some of it existed, and it uses UEFI, not a
BIOS, so getting DOS to boot on it will be a real challenge.
...
It would be interesting to find someone who purchased it and see
exactly what software HP bundles with it.
[sarc]
I mean, come /on/, HP. You love to bundle software with /everything/!
We can't even buy a printer from you without getting 1.7 GiB of extra
crap on a disc. So what about FreeDOS? Hmm?
[/sarc]
But seriously, though, I wonder if the hardware in this specific
laptop /is/ actually supported under DOS, and perhaps HP supplies
drivers for it just like they would supply drivers for Windows or
whatever other OS they would sell alongside their hardware. Yeah, I
know that's probably not the case. But that would be nice. That would
be nice. :)
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