I have a DOS application that creates DMF formated floppys, but it needs dos as a host OS. I'm using laptop that has a bootable cd drive and winxp home in single a hd partition in NTFS. There is only about 4gb free, but I could repartition to free 1gb and create a fat32 partition in it to hold the freedos install. If I use a boot manager I should be able to choose which partitition to boot from, freedos wont see the big ntfs so it should make the small fat32 parition its c: drive. It guess windows xp would assign a drive letter to the fat32 partition. I wonder if the installer would run under winxp targeting the fat32 partition? I downloaded the cd ISO and have mounted it via Virtual CloneDrive, so it looks like a cdrom to windows xp.
To install, would I create the target fat32 partition, then boot the install cd (from the ISO)? Or mount the cd ISO as a virtual cdrom and run the installer under a dos window? Where can I get a driver set for a USB floppy drive for freedos 1.0? Are Western Digital Passport external HD useable as USB mass storage devices? Where would I get the driver/drivers needed to supoport it/them? thanks in advance ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: The Future of Linux Business White Paper from Novell. From the desktop to the data center, Linux is going mainstream. Let it simplify your IT future. http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/8857-50307-18918-4 _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
