[Freedos-user] freedos installation using usb drive
hello all, I don't have a floppy drive and my pc won't detect my usb based cdrom drive. Can I install freedos onto a usb drive and then onto my hard dive from the usb drive? I extracted the freedos cdrom image onto the usb drive and that did'nt work properly.regardsGabriel _ Get a bird’s eye view of the world with Multimap http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/115454059/direct/01/-- ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] freedos installation using usb drive
That depends. First, go into your BIOS and see if it supports booting from USB; you should be able to find this out by going into the Boot Order menu. If there's a USB option, then yes, you probably can; otherwise, no, you'll have to find a floppy drive somewhere. If your computer is new enough that it doesn't have a floppy drive, it's probably new enough that it should be able to boot from USB... just check and see. If so, then I think there's a USB image for FreeDOS, but I'm not sure where, someone else might know. Skyler On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 4:32 AM, gabriel borrageiro gborrage...@hotmail.com wrote: hello all, I don't have a floppy drive and my pc won't detect my usb based cdrom drive. Can I install freedos onto a usb drive and then onto my hard dive from the usb drive? I extracted the freedos cdrom image onto the usb drive and that did'nt work properly. regards Gabriel -- Great search results, great prizes. BigSnapSearch.com Search nowhttp://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/117442309/direct/01/ -- ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user -- Those who do not become dishonest or hostile are the most difficult to debate. Addressing others in a respectful and considerate manner conveys favorable impressions of their belief system. Providing rational answers to questions creates positive image of the person and their beliefs. Thank goodness there are very few such members and they are greatly outnumbered by those who are irrational, rabid, intolerant, and disrespectful. - An atheist -- ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] freedos installation using usb drive
- You have no floppy. - You have IDE harddisk? - You have USB CD-ROM. - You have no legacy CD-ROM? There was a similar question recently... http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=6599 First you must tell us if you are able to boot from USB. Does your BIOS have options to boot USB? Did you success with something? gabriel borrageiro schrieb: hello all, I don't have a floppy drive and my pc won't detect my usb based cdrom drive. Can I install freedos onto a usb drive and then onto my hard dive from the usb drive? I extracted the freedos cdrom image onto the usb drive and that did'nt work properly.regardsGabriel _ Get a bird’s eye view of the world with Multimap http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/115454059/direct/01/ -- ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user -- ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] freedos installation using usb drive
hi, Yes I have an IDE drive and a usb cdrom. My BIOS is able to boot USB. I guess what I'm looking for is a usb image of FreeDos. then I can make the IDE disk the active partition and install XP.So do you know of an install image of FreeDos for a usb drive? best regardsGabriel Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 18:40:02 +0100 From: michael_reichenb...@freenet.de To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] freedos installation using usb drive - You have no floppy. - You have IDE harddisk? - You have USB CD-ROM. - You have no legacy CD-ROM? There was a similar question recently... http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=6599 First you must tell us if you are able to boot from USB. Does your BIOS have options to boot USB? Did you success with something? gabriel borrageiro schrieb: hello all, I don't have a floppy drive and my pc won't detect my usb based cdrom drive. Can I install freedos onto a usb drive and then onto my hard dive from the usb drive? I extracted the freedos cdrom image onto the usb drive and that did'nt work properly.regardsGabriel _ Get a bird’s eye view of the world with Multimap http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/115454059/direct/01/ -- ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user -- ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user _ Are you a PC? Upload your PC story and show the world http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/122465942/direct/01/-- ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] freedos installation using usb drive
Hi! Yes I have an IDE drive and a usb cdrom. My BIOS is able to boot USB. Good... I guess what I'm looking for is a usb image of FreeDos. then I can make the IDE disk the active partition and install XP. There is no USB image because USB sticks all have different sizes. But there are several howtos specifically for making USB sticks boot FreeDOS, just google for them :-). The FAQ also has a bit of information, I guess: www.google.com/search?q=site%3Afd-doc.sourceforge.net+usb+boot On the other hand, why do you need DOS if you only want to install XP? You can use any OS to make the partition active, but in the end, you probably have to boot the XP installer to make the harddisk boot XP... You can also connect the harddisk to another PC which does have a CD/DVD drive and install XP there. Okay, XP is probably more upset than, say, Linux, when you later move the harddisk to the original PC and it finds your hardware changed a lot ;-). So do you know of an install image of FreeDos for a usb drive? No, but you can use: - makebootfat (for Linux and others, it can reformat the whole stick, exact result?) - syslinux (just copy the files and use syslinux to make things bootable...) - syslinux with memdisk (can make a diskette image boot, use for example Rugxulo's disk) - sys-freedos-linux (basically SYS for DOS running in Linux, copy the rest manually) - that tool from HP (seems to work quite well in Windows, explicit FreeDOS support) The Rugxulo diskette distro can be found as diskette images and as zips-with-files on http://rugxulo.googlepages.com/ - use the version which fits better with your needs. You only need disk one here, and it already has way more things installed than you need. You can also use my one and two on a single 2.88 MB diskette (on his homepage) as well, after all there is no problem for memdisk to support even such exotic diskette sizes :-). Eric -- ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] freedos installation using usb drive
If you do not have a CD drive for your PC, then it would be useful to buy a USB CD or DVD-RW drive. It is always useful, so it is not a waste of money. You can use later for a lot of interesting things. And it is not very expensive, around 100 RON in Romania, so 32 dollars. I have Freedos on a stick now together with Damn Small Linux and Puppy linux. The MBR was messed up on my stick and could not make the Fat32 partition bootable, so I edited the menu.lst file in Grub to look like this: default 0 timeout 10 title DSL root (hd0,1) kernel /linux24 ramdisk_size=10 lang=us quiet vga=791 frugal initrd /minirt24.gz title Freedos root (hd0,0) makeactive chainloader +1 boot title Puppy Linux 400 frugal rootnoverify (hd0,0) kernel /puppy400/vmlinuz pmedia=idehd psubdir=puppy400 initrd /puppy400/initrd.gz I bolded what should be added to make the Fat32 partition bootable even on a messed up memory stick. This can easily be done by booting Slax or Puppy Linux and simply writing that code for Freedos (of course, taking in account on which partition it is.) I am using Freedos for some DOS games now and I am very sad I cannot access the Internet under freedos. Yes, you are right, a new hardware may be a great surprise for Windows XP whereas under Linux things went smoothly when putting the HD into another computer. I wish a Happy New Year to everybody ! Alex Phone number: 004-0364412643 Mobile phone number: 004-0770607699 Messenger ID: firaalexandru Skype ID: alexfiracluj -- ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
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