Hi Jim:
One option is to create a FAT32 partition on the Windows disk drive and write to that. This can often be done using the "free" space left on the end of the disk, or you can resize the NTFS partition without destroying the data.
See http://www.k1ea.com/hints/DOS%20dual%20boot%20version%201.0.pdf for details. You can also go ahead and install FreeDOS on the resulting partition and dual boot which is what I do.
Or, you may be able to access a USB memory stick (aka thumb drive). There are two basic ways of doing that. One is if your BIOS provides the correct support, FreeDOS may detect the USB stick and be able to use it. (Note that this sort of works on my Dell D600 laptop but is unstable). The other way is to use usbaspi.sys and aspidisk.sys to attempt to detect the USB stick from DOS. This works successfully on the computers I've tried.
My config.sys contains device=himem.exe device=emm386.exe vds noems x=test /memcheck /verbose device=usbaspi.sys /v /slow device=aspidisk.sys
Mark
Mark
Jim Lemon wrote:
Hi,
I have been using FreeDOS as a platform for a battery of human performance tests for a few years. It has allowed me to keep a very useful test battery going with the demise of MS-DOS, as the tests take over system interrupts and do not work properly in a DOS window. However, it is becoming more difficult to maintain this as there are hardly any PCs with VFAT partitions anymore. I have managed to keep up so far by producing a bootable CD-ROM and writing the data to a diskette, but even this is getting edgy as many desktops come without a diskette drive now. What I am wondering is if FreeDOS has developed the capability to write to NTFS filesystems so that I could run the tests under FreeDOS on the CD-ROM but write the data to an NTFS filesystem.
Also, I'm not sure if M$ has any other filesystems that I might need to consider. Apple seems to do this with their HFS - every time open source HFS tools appear, they change the spec.
Jim
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