There are advantages to installing FreeDOS natively - it is faster. On the other hand, I don't think there are many advantages to giving FreeDOS gigabytes of space. DOS programs just don't need it.
So, I installed FreeDOS on an 8GB USB pendrive. (I don't think that even 2GB is really needed.) On the internet there are guides on doing this. I think I found a way that's simpler than all of them and requires no proprietary tools. * Download the FreeDOS USB installer. * Copy the img to a small (1GB) USB key. I used "dd" for this but there are many options. * Take another larger USB key and format it to FAT32. You can use Windows or use mkfs.fat on Linux. * Put a small file with a memorable name on this one. * Setup your PC's BIOS to boot into DOS. ** Enable Legacy boot. ** Enable legacy option ROMs. * Plug in both USB keys. * Boot into the FreeDOS installer. * Drop out of the installer and do FDISK /STATUS. ** This should show you that the larger USB key is present. ** This will give you a drive letter for the larger USB key. * Change to that drive letter by typing D:, E:, or whatever. * Check that the "small file with a memorable name" is there. * Go back into the FreeDOS installer/package manager by typing FDIMPLES. * Choose to install everything to the drive letter found earlier. ** Note that if you get the drive letter wrong you could wipe over your something you want to keep on another internal drive. * Take out the first USB key (you can reformat it and reuse it). * Reboot with the second USB key in place. I expect that some people around here know that you can do this. I'm just archiving it for posterity so someone searching the web can find it. BR, Robert Thorpe _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
