[Freedos-user] boot from usb

2014-03-17 Thread kurt godel
I have used unetbootin to put freedos on the stick; works well.
the problem is with the flash drives themselves
 Older drives were simple, with no HPA(host protected access) partitions.
Most of the current crop of these drives have this garbage on them,
and what's worse, it seems to bee mask programmed onto the drive, making it
impossible to remove using tools for hard drives.
   This junk will also be found on SD cards.
Though it masquerades as security/encryption suite, it is,in fact, a
malware vector. In any case, many of these drives will not boot.
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[Freedos-user] Boot from USB

2014-03-09 Thread Xianwen Chen
Hi guys,

I'd like to try FreeDOS without installing it to a hard drive. Is it
possible to boot FreeDOS from USB, for example via syslinux?

Thanks in advance!

Kind regards,

Xianwen
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Re: [Freedos-user] Boot from USB

2014-03-09 Thread Rugxulo
Hi,

On Mar 9, 2014 2:59 PM, Xianwen Chen xianwen.c...@gmail.com wrote:

 I'd like to try FreeDOS without installing it to a hard drive.
 Is it possible to boot FreeDOS from USB, for example via syslinux?

If you have access to a modern Windows host, try the RUFUS installer:

http://rufus.akeo.ie/

Or try UNetBootIn, but that doesn't (IIRC) save persistent changes:

http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/
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Re: [Freedos-user] Boot from USB

2014-03-09 Thread Matej Horvat
Yes. If you are on Windows, Rufus is helpful:

http://rufus.akeo.ie/

It will only install a very minimal installation (kernel, FreeCOM, and  
keyboard layout), so you will have to install almost everything yourself.

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