[Freedos-user] FreeDOS Installed on CD
This is a simpleminded question, but I have spent a couple of hours trying to puzzle an answer out of the materials on the FreeDOS site--where it may be hidden among the jargon. I have downloaded the ISO, but I don't want to install FreeDOS on my hard disk. What I want to do is install it on a bootable CD so that I can try its capabilities out before deciding what to do with it. For instance, Linux offers several bootable CD images that one can use to run any computer under the OS without affecting the computer's installation in any way. How can I do that with FreeDOS? I'd be grateful for a jargon-free answer (I know DOS, by the way.) Thanks, -- Nathan Sivin History and Sociology of Science University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia PA 19104-6304 (215) 898-7454 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~nsivin/ --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121642 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Installed on CD
Good morning, sir: It is easy to create a CD which boots from a floppy disk image file, using the same basic technique that Linux uses to boot its kernels. The key programs to do it this way are mkisofs, to create the bootable CD file system, and isolinux to boot the Floppy Disk image. I wrote up a pretty detailed procedure on doing this which is available at http://k1ea.com/hints/Creating_a_Bootable_DOS_CD_V%201.5.pdf I would welcome any comments. Setting up the first one is a bit tricky, but it gets easier. This is written to create the CD from Windows. Mark N. Sivin wrote: This is a simpleminded question, but I have spent a couple of hours trying to puzzle an answer out of the materials on the FreeDOS site--where it may be hidden among the jargon. I have downloaded the ISO, but I don't want to install FreeDOS on my hard disk. What I want to do is install it on a bootable CD so that I can try its capabilities out before deciding what to do with it. For instance, Linux offers several bootable CD images that one can use to run any computer under the OS without affecting the computer's installation in any way. How can I do that with FreeDOS? I'd be grateful for a jargon-free answer (I know DOS, by the way.) Thanks, --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121642 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Installed on CD
Forgive me if I'm wrong, but doesn't freedos include an option to run it from the cd?? Burn the iso to cd, boot it and check out the options on the first screen that shows up. If I remember correctly, you can install, boot the hard disk, or run directly from the cd, to check it out. Jeff On Sunday 02 April 2006 16:20, Mark Bailey wrote: Good morning, sir: It is easy to create a CD which boots from a floppy disk image file, using the same basic technique that Linux uses to boot its kernels. The key programs to do it this way are mkisofs, to create the bootable CD file system, and isolinux to boot the Floppy Disk image. I wrote up a pretty detailed procedure on doing this which is available at http://k1ea.com/hints/Creating_a_Bootable_DOS_CD_V%201.5.pdf I would welcome any comments. Setting up the first one is a bit tricky, but it gets easier. This is written to create the CD from Windows. Mark N. Sivin wrote: This is a simpleminded question, but I have spent a couple of hours trying to puzzle an answer out of the materials on the FreeDOS site--where it may be hidden among the jargon. I have downloaded the ISO, but I don't want to install FreeDOS on my hard disk. What I want to do is install it on a bootable CD so that I can try its capabilities out before deciding what to do with it. For instance, Linux offers several bootable CD images that one can use to run any computer under the OS without affecting the computer's installation in any way. How can I do that with FreeDOS? I'd be grateful for a jargon-free answer (I know DOS, by the way.) Thanks, --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121 642 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user -- Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. -- Mark Twain --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121642 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
