Re: [Freedos-user] Re: USB stick boot solution...

2005-02-10 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 9--2005 17:53 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Urban) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: RU Part of the reason I'm trying to make a USB-stick bootable is to be able RU to have a *writeable* removable medium, for example to be able to save RU a backup copy of the running BIOS image before

Re: [Freedos-user] Re: USB stick boot solution...

2005-02-09 Thread Robert Urban
Hi Bernd, if schreef is the simple past for wrote, was is the present... shrijfen? :) Part of the reason I'm trying to make a USB-stick bootable is to be able to have a *writeable* removable medium, for example to be able to save a backup copy of the running BIOS image before flashing. Using

Re: [Freedos-user] Re: USB stick boot solution...

2005-02-09 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Robert Urban schreef: if schreef is the simple past for wrote, was is the present... shrijfen? :) schrijven (in Dutch, in English it's: to write) ik schrijf (in English: I write) Using your method, I would get a ramdisk with the FreeDOS boot floppy in memory, which would mean it would be quite

Re: [Freedos-user] Re: USB stick boot solution...

2005-02-09 Thread Michael Devore
At 02:48 PM 2/9/2005 +0100, Robert Urban wrote: USB-ZIP is generally documented on the net as the most compatible one to choose for USB flash drive booting. It's the only selection that works for booting my USB stick here. But mine does boot up as a large A:, which you might not find

Re: [Freedos-user] Re: USB stick boot solution...

2005-02-09 Thread Robert Urban
Hi Michael, You wrote: At 02:48 PM 2/9/2005 +0100, Robert Urban wrote: USB-ZIP is generally documented on the net as the most compatible one to choose for USB flash drive booting. It's the only selection that works for booting my USB stick here. But mine does boot up as a

Re: [Freedos-user] Re: USB stick boot solution...

2005-02-09 Thread Michael Devore
At 09:39 PM 2/9/2005 +0100, Robert Urban wrote: Not sure why you're having so many problems, although I admit that I hand punched in a few values in the boot sector to make sure mine booted. What's the brand and size of your flash drive? If I see one locally and its cheap enough, maybe I'll