Hi James,
just got a new laptop. I was just wondering before I install
freedos, is it possible to get support of my cd rom drive?
I would say yes, of course. The normal way to install
FreeDOS is to boot from the install CD-R / CD-RW :-)
one of the things I found disappointing about freedos was the
lack of floppy support and cd drive support.
That is unexpected. Every version of DOS always supports
floppy disk, because the BIOS is the driver for that.
For the CD drive, you can use UIDE and SHSUCDX which are
the IDE / SATA hardware driver and the ISO9660 filesystem
driver, respectively. They also support DVD / BD and long
file names. However, UDF filesystems are not supported by
SHSUCDX or MSCDEX, so you would use other drivers for UDF.
I am wondering if I can somehow install a couple of drivers
and edit my configuration file if I could get support
for a floppy and or cd drive?
See above. Floppy will not need drivers and for UIDE and
SHSUCDX, you can read the documentation or search the web
for example config sys / autoexec bat lines to use them.
Regards, Eric
PS: For USB drives (floppy, CD, DVD, BD, flash sticks and
external harddisks, SSDs, cardreaders, CF, SD and so on)
the BIOS can be driver if you plug them in before boot.
Or use Bret John's or Georg Potthast's DOS USB driver :-)
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