[Freedos-user] (no subject)
Hi, I am trying to use a USB memory disk along with FreeDOS. I am a running a CAM software and need a facility to transfer drawings from other computers to the PC used to run the CAM software and USB Memory disk is the simplest way. Can anyone let m know if this is possible and how. Thanks Manjunath -- Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
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Op 1-2-2012 17:56, Manjunath ML schreef: I am trying to use a USB memory disk along with FreeDOS. I am a running a CAM software and need a facility to transfer drawings from other computers to the PC used to run the CAM software and USB Memory disk is the simplest way. Can anyone let m know if this is possible and how. The RUFUS utility is a program you can run on Windows, it will make your USB Flash Drive bootable so you can start FreeDOS from USB-stick. [ http://pete.akeo.ie/2011/12/rufus-dos-bootable-usb-formatting.html ] Be aware it erases all current content of the USB Flash Drive, so save anything you'd like to keep first. Easiest would be to have FreeDOS and the CAM software both on the USB drive (instead of booting DOS from harddisk then trying to get access to USB drive). -- Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
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On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Bernd Blaauw bbla...@home.nl wrote: Op 1-2-2012 17:56, Manjunath ML schreef: I am trying to use a USB memory disk along with FreeDOS. I am a running a CAM software and need a facility to transfer drawings from other computers to the PC used to run the CAM software and USB Memory disk is the simplest way. Can anyone let m know if this is possible and how. The RUFUS utility is a program you can run on Windows, it will make your USB Flash Drive bootable so you can start FreeDOS from USB-stick. [ http://pete.akeo.ie/2011/12/rufus-dos-bootable-usb-formatting.html ] Whether this works will depend upon your BIOS. The box I have FreeDOS on will boot from a USB floppy drive, but *not* from a USB stick. BIOS limitation. I can't see a USB stick from FreeDOS either, because no driver is available that can do it. (I've looked at the USB drivers for FreeDOS, and they don't handle the method the box uses.) __ Dennis -- Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)
You can use PLoP bootmanager: it's at www.plop.at . With this installed, you can (read-only) boot from usb stick on even the old usb 1.1 hardware, and also you can boot from USB when the BIOS has *_no_* support for it. It's freeware. If you don't want to install it to hard drive, you can just boot from a cd burned with it, with the same results. Comprehensive instruction is on the PLoP site. If you want to install it to FreeDOS, though, you have to boot no drivers: option 4, or any totally driverless boot. (It doesn't agree with one or more of the memory managers.) PLoP is excellent. Most Sincerely, Mark Brown .. eufdp...@yahoo.com eufdp...@yahoo.com eufdp...@yahoo.com eufdp...@yahoo.com eufdp...@yahoo.com .. From: dmccunney dennis.mccun...@gmail.com To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Wednesday, February 1, 2012 1:45 PM Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject) On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Bernd Blaauw bbla...@home.nl wrote: Op 1-2-2012 17:56, Manjunath ML schreef: I am trying to use a USB memory disk along with FreeDOS. I am a running a CAM software and need a facility to transfer drawings from other computers to the PC used to run the CAM software and USB Memory disk is the simplest way. Can anyone let m know if this is possible and how. The RUFUS utility is a program you can run on Windows, it will make your USB Flash Drive bootable so you can start FreeDOS from USB-stick. [ http://pete.akeo.ie/2011/12/rufus-dos-bootable-usb-formatting.html ] Whether this works will depend upon your BIOS. The box I have FreeDOS on will boot from a USB floppy drive, but *not* from a USB stick. BIOS limitation. I can't see a USB stick from FreeDOS either, because no driver is available that can do it. (I've looked at the USB drivers for FreeDOS, and they don't handle the method the box uses.) __ Dennis -- Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user -- Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)
Op 1-2-2012 19:45, dmccunney schreef: Whether this works will depend upon your BIOS. The box I have FreeDOS on will boot from a USB floppy drive, but *not* from a USB stick. BIOS limitation. I can't see a USB stick from FreeDOS either, because no driver is available that can do it. (I've looked at the USB drivers for FreeDOS, and they don't handle the method the box uses.) Bret's USB drivers in DOS so far are written specificly for UHCI, an USB 1.1 implementation. Other vendor-provided (usually product-related) and commercial implementations exist that go beyond UHCI, one such can be found at [ http://www.georgpotthast.de/usb/ ]. Loading USB drivers from a floppydisk inside an USB floppydrive will likely cause a system crash though, as these USB drivers tend to hijack the entire USB stack, disconnecting you from any and all previous USB devices and their contents (either at per-controller basis or all USB-controllers at the same time). One workaround is a ramdisk loaded by floppydisk, but that's pretty nasty to setup properly: * create ramdisk * find driveletter for it * copy shell * copy batchfile * copy usb drivers * switch to ramdisk * execute copied batchfile * don't access A: anymore till reset The Syslinux/memdisk method is slightly easier as the ramdisk created by MEMDISK will then be drive A:. Guess I should be creating such a disk soon. Bernd -- Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
