hello,
good news... I have a working usb boot disk (windows 98 boot disk).
The problem I have now is that the usb drive loads as disk 1, so when I run
fdisk, the usb disk is assigned as the active partition.
Therefore even if I install XP on my hard drive, the disk will not load
correctly without the usb drive as it's not the active partition.
If I try run fdisk to force the hard disk to become the active partition, this
does not work. Only drive 1 can be made into the active partition. And
according to fdisk, the usb drive is the active partition in drive 1.
Many thanks for your help.Gabriel Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 21:43:58 +0100 From:
e.a...@jpberlin.de To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: 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
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