[Freedos-user] FreeDos on USB mounted compact flash card

Hi:  I used Refus to put FreeDos on a USB mounted compact flash card, it looks like it's going to boot but then it boots Grub off my hard disk instead, any idea why? This is a modern computer(but old enough that it uses a BIOS). -- -Jamie Marchant

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos-user USB driv

> From: Rugxulo > Having said that, USB floppy drive should automatically work (thanks > to the BIOS). I have one, it works fine (although I haven't used it > lately). Of course, I don't have any UEFI machines, so I don't know > how those would behave. For the uneducated,

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos-user USB driv

On 11/8/2016 7:38 AM, Mike Powell wrote: > > For the uneducated, what is a "USB floppy drive"? A floppy drive connected via a USB port... Google it and you will find it, for example https://www.amazon.com/Sabrent-External-Floppy-Drive-FL-UDRV/dp/B00E9MD700 Ralf --- This email has been checked

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos-user USB driv

Originally to: Rugxulo > From: Rugxulo > Having said that, USB floppy drive should automatically work (thanks > to the BIOS). I have one, it works fine (although I haven't used it > lately). Of course, I don't have any UEFI machines, so I don't know > how those would behave.

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS on usb stick

As far as I know, installing FreeDOS doesn't overwrite the MBR. If you are using GRUB4DOS on your USB stick, you can add this entry after installing FreeDOS: title FreeDOS find --set-root /kernel.sys chainloader /kernel.sys The kernel.sys is in the root directory of the FreeDOS partition. On

[Freedos-user] FreeDOS on usb stick

Hello, I have USB stick with Grub and it is partitioned. I want to install FreeDOS on partition FAT32 on usb, but I don't want to lost my partitioning state (I have installed Mandriva on usb). How I can do that?:-( And how I can add Freedos to Grub list?:-(( And where is FreeDOS kernel?:,( Please

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos on usb

The syslinux.cfg is a normal text file that you make on the root directory of the USB drive, so you can just use EDIT for that. -maybeway36 On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 7:28 PM, ramin ramien3...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi I saw that it was possible to run freedos from a usb. Since my mother board can boot

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos on usb

ramin wrote: Hi I saw that it was possible to run freedos from a usb. I have two thumb drives that I cloned from a boot floppy with the HP utility. On my laptop - which has no A: - they both work, but one boots as A: and the other as C:. I am going to keep the A:. Ray

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos on usb

To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] freedos on usb ramin wrote: Hi I saw that it was possible to run freedos from a usb. I have two thumb drives that I cloned from a boot floppy with the HP utility. On my laptop - which has no A: - they both work, but one boots

[Freedos-user] freedos on usb

Hi I saw that it was possible to run freedos from a usb. Since my mother board can boot a usb drive I decided to use my 2 gig memorex. Their was a tutorial on the wiki about installing on a usb which I tried but I couldn't make a syslinux.cfg I typed prompt 1 on the command prompt and then just

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS on USB stick?

Roughbert Strong wrote: stick, booting starts OK but soon stops with media What happens exactly? test failure check cable. I've seen this error Check cable probably comes from your NIC (PXE), because BIOS couldn't boot the stick. Robert Riebisch -- BTTR Software

[Freedos-user] FreeDOS on USB stick?

Hello everyone! Is it possible to boot from a USB stick and also use that as the primary hard disk? In other words, without any other mass storage devices? If so, how do I do it? Supposing that the BIOS of the target machine is capable of booting from USB. Thanks!

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS on USB stick?

Hi, Is it possible to boot from a USB stick and also use that as the primary hard disk? Yes, if you BIOS supports it... There are a few styles of hard disk simulation for USB sticks, but there are howtos on the www which explain the details. You will have to try which styles are supported by

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS on USB stick?

Thanks Eric. After using the HP utility under XP to sys the USB stick, booting starts OK but soon stops with media test failure check cable. I've seen this error messsage reported in the archives, but no resolution - any ideas? Chris

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS on USB-HD

Ich habe USB-Boot-Unterstützung in meinem BIOS und ein Update steht derzeit nicht zur Verfügung. Mein Bart PE kann ich ja auch von der USB-Platte booten. Und genau das macht mir Kopfzerbrechen. Hast du ne Lösung ? 2007/2/10, Florian Xaver [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, do you have BIOS-support? My

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS on USB-HD

Ist die Platte schon mit irgend etwas formatiert (zB NTFS)? Verwendest du die FreeDOS 1.0- Boot-CD oder noch eine ältere Testversion? LG On Sat, 10 Feb 2007 10:54:53 +0100, Michael McStarfighter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ich habe USB-Boot-Unterstützung in meinem BIOS und ein Update steht

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS on USB-HD

Ich nutze 1.0 Full und die Partition ist mit FAT32 formatiert. Allerdings liegt auch noch ne NTFS-Platte drauf... 2007/2/10, Florian Xaver [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Ist die Platte schon mit irgend etwas formatiert (zB NTFS)? Verwendest du die FreeDOS 1.0- Boot-CD oder noch eine ältere Testversion?

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS on USB-HD

Hi, do you have BIOS-support? My extern hard disk is mapped by BIOS and is accessable like any other hard disk. Maybe a BIOS-update helps? Indeed. You can only boot from USB disk if your BIOS supports USB disk! Because you cannot load drivers BEFORE you boot ;-). I searched the last month

[Freedos-user] FreeDOS on USB-HD

Hi, I searched the last month for an answer how to install FreeDOS on an USB-HD, but found nothing. Google hadn't help me, too. If I boot the FreeDOS Disc with my USB-HD plugged in, I get every time an InitDisk Illegal relocation entry. Then the starting process is dead and nothing happens

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS on USB-HD

Hi, do you have BIOS-support? My extern hard disk is mapped by BIOS and is accessable like any other hard disk. Maybe a BIOS-update helps`? Bye Flo On Sat, 10 Feb 2007 02:00:17 +0100, Michael McStarfighter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I searched the last month for an answer how to

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos on USB memor stick (partially solved)

Hi all, found a promising project under www.boodaa.de There you will find an application called bootdisk2bootstick v0.8. This application can create a bootable usb stick using a bootable floppy image. The only problem is that the usb stick is only 1.44MB in size after that, but it is bootable.

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos on USB memor stick (partially solved)

On Fri, 2006-10-20 at 14:13 +0200, Norbert Remmel wrote: Hi all, found a promising project under www.boodaa.de There you will find an application called bootdisk2bootstick v0.8. This application can create a bootable usb stick using a bootable floppy image. The only problem is that the

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos on USB memor stick (partially solved)

Well, the MBR is special program located at sector 1 head 0, cylinder 0 with datastructure for partition information. The code for detecting active Partition is 446 bytes long and then follow the partition table entries (4 of them): bootabledb ? ; Indicate active partition slice beginhead

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos on USB memor stick (partially solved)

Hi Art, attached an iso-file which boots freedos and mounts the mass-strorage device attached to the usb controller. the image also contains fdisk (and xfdisk if fdisk fails), format and the sys command for making the usb stick bootable. Hope that helps. Norbert. P.S. Due to sourceforge

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos on USB memor stick (partially solved)

Norbert, if you had REALLY sent the file to the list, then 95% of the many readers of this MAILING LIST would have been quite angry at you now because their mailbox got flooded with an unrequested large ISO file. So it is good that you did not manage to send the file through the list. As a

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos on USB memor stick (partially solved)

please remove my email from list ! tnkx !! - Original Message - From: Norbert Remmel [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 4:59 AM Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos on USB memor stick (partially solved) Hi Art, attached an iso

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos on USB memor stick (partially solved)

HI Michael: Once the USB stick is bootable, you can copy the DOS files needed to the USB stick manually from Windows (or Linux). If you have FreeDOS installed to a hard disk partition somewhere, you could copy the files from there. If I wanted the full FreeDOS installation, I'd install it to a

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos on USB memor stick (partially solved)

Got interuppted on this subject, but back on it now. I have got two USB sticks formated with the HP program. Can read and write to both as fat32 from Linux or Windows. Downloaded the USBASPI.SYS and DI1000DD.SYS and have them available. How ever, I tried the links in Mark Baily's last email

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos on USB memor stick (partially solved)

Hi Art, I think you can try mount -t vfat -oloop /opt/freedfos/freedosfile.img /mnt/freedos Geraldo On 16/10/06, Art Fore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Got interuppted on this subject, but back on it now. I have got two USB sticks formated with the HP program. Can read and write to both as fat32

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos on USB memor stick (partially solved)

How do you install the full distro onto an USB flash drive / USB-HD? The HP tool doesn't work for this, especially not with an USB-HD. And everytime I boot the FreeDOS full CD with a plugged-in USB-HD or USB flash drive, there comes an Invalid Opcode and then it stops. So what to do ?

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos on USB memor stick (partially solved)

Has anyone thought of breaking the freedos.iso image into zip archives and allowing users to download it in peices? would be better than messing around with cdrom image files of megabyte proportion? --chris http://www.aotksc.com/ Original Message Subject: Re: [Freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos on USB memor stick (partially solved)

to download it in peices? would be better than messing around with cdrom image files of megabyte proportion? --chris http://www.aotksc.com/ Original Message Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos on USB memor stick (partially solved) From: Michael McStarfighter [EMAIL

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos on USB memor stick (partially solved)

Hi Art, I have found this utility to work very well under WindowsXP to make bootable DOS USB sticks. If you have access to a Windows computer, it would be worth a try. http://h18000.www1.hp.com/support/files/serveroptions/us/download/20306.html This utility is the right and easiest choice

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos on USB memor stick (partially solved)

Norbert Remmel wrote: The only thing I don't know is how to create a floppy image file under linux or a bootable iso-file with floppy emulation because I'm not working with linux based systems. Norbert. Use mkisofs. See http://www.itg.uiuc.edu/help/mkisofs/mkisofs.htm (The same

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos on USB memor stick (partially solved)

Giving up for tonight. Installed Freedos 1.0 under QEMU in SuSE 101. Go through the exersize of crating Freedos on the USB stick, it installs, I can boot it in qemmu. Pull it out, and put it in the laptop and boot, comes up with no OS. Cannot see any files on the stick with ls on either sdd or

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos on USB memor stick (partially solved)

On 10/12/06, Art Fore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] How can I add files to the qemmu freedos image? Had no success on even doing this. Cannot see with ls either since it is a .img file. Can you really copy files to and from Freedos? If so, how? Art A Qemu image can be loop-mounted under

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos on USB memor stick (partially solved)

Bernd Blaauw wrote: Art Fore schreef: [...] Furthermore there's some tool from HP to configure flash USB disks to make them bootable. [...] Bernd Hi Art and Bernd: I have found this utility to work very well under WindowsXP to make bootable DOS USB sticks. If you have access to a

[Freedos-user] Freedos on USB memor stick

Have been trying unsuccessfully for two days to get freedos on a cruzer 256 meg memory stick. Best procedure I found was http://users.dslextreme.com/~craig.lawson/linux_notes/flashing_bios.html but did not work in the last step syslinux /dev/sdd1 ; sync syslinux: this doesn't look like a valid

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos on USB memor stick (partially solved)

That did not work. Look at the partitions in yast partitioner, it shows /dev/sdd a the disk drive, and /dev/sdd1 as a fat partition. executing ms-sys -s /dev/sdd ; sync, I get Public domain syslinux master boot record successfully written to /dev/sdd Executing syslinux /dev/sdd ; sync, I get

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos on USB memor stick (partially solved)

Hi Art: I am far from an expert here, but there are two models for booting from a USB stick. One is a superfloppy model where the entire USB stick is formatted as a single giant floppy disk and the other mode is where the USB stick has an MBR and is treated basically like a hard disk. See

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos on USB memor stick (partially solved)

I understand now a bit more from your info and Eric Auers. I have a couple of problems though. I do not have anything with dos on it other than a CDROM with freedos. If I boot with the CDROM, I cannot see the USB drives. Any way to do that? If I could, I would be there. Booting from USB drive, I

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos on USB memor stick (partially solved)

Hi Art: Well, if the ls command from Linux sees the DOS files on the USB stick (that are booting) on either /dev/sdd or /dev/sdd1, then doing a cp to the appropriate device, where Linux should now see the DOS files and the ones you added, should put the files you want on a large USB disk. When

[Freedos-user] FreeDOS and USB CD-ROMs

Hi! I need to use few USB CD-ROMs from FreeDOS. I found Panasonic ASPI for DOS driver. But it works only with one of my USB CD-ROMS. Also I tried DUSE but it cannot find any CD-ROMs and shows a message Failed to load USB Storage device. Is there any other drivers for USB CD-ROMs? Looking