Re: [Freedos-user] cannot boot installation media

2024-04-28 Thread Bob Pryor via Freedos-user
Post ls -l of your usb drive. As Jim mentioned, you can not just copy the .img file to a formatted usb. You have to burn the image to the drive to make it bootable. JP On Sat, Apr 27, 2024 at 11:27 PM Jim Hall via Freedos-user < freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > To confirm, you're

Re: [Freedos-user] Creating a minimal freeDOS bootable image that runs a single application

2022-07-10 Thread Bob Pryor
Hi Nico, Are you interested in access to system hardware and files? Or simply your editor and the files you are using on the usb drive? And UEFI could be a problem if you are thinking of hardware not in your control. FreeDOS _might_ boot anywhere with a keyboard and compatible video, with your usb

Re: [Freedos-user] ECHO vs @ECHO

2022-02-26 Thread Bob Pryor
Once you have debugged ALL your batch files you can place `CTTY NUL' before the command(s) and `CTTY CON' after to avoid output to screen. See below to find how to chain/call another batch file. Place the 'CTTY CON' first so you don't forget! You need to be sure there are no interactive

[Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.3 qemu boot from USB

2022-02-24 Thread Bob Pryor
Hi All A few weeks ago I used qemu and FreeDOS 1.3rc5 to fdisk and format 2 partitions on a USB3 mounted 128GB ssd. sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdc Disk /dev/sdc: 111.79 GiB, 120034121728 bytes, 234441644 sectors Disk model: SV300S37A12 Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size

Re: [Freedos-user] Problems with FDISK?

2021-01-04 Thread Bob Pryor
Greg Did the gparted computer partition the CF card as GPT? I believe FreeDOS only recognizes MBR partitions. On Mon, Jan 4, 2021 at 7:30 AM Greg Gerke via Freedos-user < freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > I was having a similar problem during an install that I think might stem > from

Re: [Freedos-user] IDE <-> CF adapters

2020-12-21 Thread Bob Pryor
Remember FAT16 partitions are limited to 2GiB in MS/PC-DOS. So, drives are limited to 8GiB. Check out industrial Flash modules or DiskOnModule. Read a little about them here: http://www.glitchwrks.com/2010/12/16/xtide Note: Expensive compared to more modern SATA devices.

Re: [Freedos-user] Difficulty with serial communications

2018-06-22 Thread Bob Pryor
Hi, lurking here [When I use a CMD window on the windows 10 disk, I “>echo hello > com1” worked fine. However, I will try different ports on FreeDOS (My DOS application only supports com1 & com2).] Don't have W10 handy, so I tried Vista64 Administrative Command Prompt. >echo hello > com1 The