Hi, > On Apr 26, 2025, at 9:15 PM, Dylan Kolb via Freedos-user > <freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > Thanks for the response! I moved everything important to an SD card, and I > have a few ISOs on a ventoy flash drive for windows and different LTS > versions of Ubuntu , and FreeDOS. While it would be ideal to avoid data loss, > specifically the pain of having to install 50 GB of programs, it's OK if I > do, I started over plenty of times already. I apologize if anything is wrong > in this email, I am sending it from my Apple Watch.
If the machine has a “built-in” SD card reader, there is a possibility you could install FreeDOS to an SD Card. I personally have two machines I do that with. I have a Pentium Pro that has a SD to IDE adapter plugged in as the primary hard drive. I also have a little Atom based netbook. The netbook will boot DOS from USB Floppy, USB Thumb Drive, built-in SD slot and of course the internal SSD. The BIOS in that machine is cool enough to boot from SD with USB drives attached giving drive C: (SD card), D: (USB Drive), E: (Internal SSD). I have a stack of SD cards with various operating systems installed. Including FreeDOS 1.3, FreeDOS 1.4, PC-DOS 7.1, MS-DOS 6.22, OpenDOS 7.02 and other non-DOS operating systems. It is a really great option. Jerome _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
