On Sun, 2005-10-30 at 22:58 -0500, Hoace Johnson wrote: > Hello, > > I have a laptop that has no working removable media > drives, which has linux installed on one patition. I > also have a fat16 partition (hda1) that I want to > install FreeDOS on, booting from GRUB, but I cannot > figure out exactly how to do this. The problem (I > think) is getting the right boot sector on /dev/hda1. > "makebootfat" looks promising, but I really do not > want to risk screwing up my system (It would be > absolute torture to restore it....), so may I ask > 1- Where can I get the essential freedos files (just > enough to run old games, turbo C, quickbasic, & use > the mouse) in a convenient format (like .zip)? > 2- How can I get it to boot from grub (My > understanding is that the I need some kind of loader > (512 bytes??) on the partition.. if anyone could send > this to me along with instructions on how to get it on > there (using dd, i guess), that would be much > appreciated)? >
If it is so old as to not have a cd does it have usb? If so go external and load and run from there using the linux to move the files over. BTW there are usb floppy drives. If you mess up grup you can rerun its install as root. CWSIV ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
