[Freedos-user] Re: booting freedos from a USB stick

2005-02-08 Thread Robert Urban
Tach Eric, You wrote: > > I tried the following: > > - cleared any partition information: > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=8k count=2 um, well, it actually *was* necessary, as I had, in earlier attemps, munged the old partition table : > That would not have been necessary :-(. >

[Freedos-user] Re: booting freedos from a USB stick

2005-02-07 Thread Robert Urban
Hi Eric, You wrote: > Hi, for using Linux to make an USB stick bootable, please do the following: > Use fdisk to mark the partition on the stick as active / bootable > Copy FreeDOS files to the partition, at least command com and kernel sys > (can be found e.g. on http://fdos.org/kernel/ and free