[Freedos-user] FreeDOS Installed on CD

2006-04-02 Thread N. Sivin
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

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Installed on CD

2006-04-02 Thread Mark Bailey
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

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Installed on CD

2006-04-02 Thread JeffM.
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