Hi David, actually a few 100 MB FAT16 should be fine for DOS already :-) Remember to use LBA partitions if you put them after the first 8 GB of your disk. Depending on your boot menu, you will only be able to boot from primary partitions. You can NOT run our installer from within Windows, but you can unzip the package zips into a c:fdos directory to get the equivalent of a good part of the install process. You will then have to write the autoexec / config manually, though, and you will still have to boot DOS from USB, cdrom or diskette to run SYS to install the kernel, command.com and a boot sector on a FAT partition. There is also a SYS-style tool which can be used from within Linux, useful if you cannot boot any DOS from USB/CD/floppy. Note that DMF format might be a problem for USB floppy drives. You can actually copy the ISO to c:fdbootcd.iso and then boot from our special installer diskette: It will then mount the ISO and run the rest of the install process :-). Of course c: is what DOS calls c: here - the first FAT partition.
> Where can I get a driver set for a USB floppy drive If you have a good BIOS, the USB floppy will be visible to DOS. With some BIOSes, this only works if you actually do boot from the USB floppy. For generic USB storage such as USB sticks (flash drives) and external harddisks, there are a few DOS drivers available. I myself prefer USBASPI (Panasonic, version 2.15) and ASPIDISK (Adaptec?) which are both free but copyrighted and closed source. You load the USBASPI driver first and then load ASPIDISK which is a sort of "create drive letters for SCSI/ASPI drives" driver. Note that you do not need ASPIDISK for real SCSI harddisks because those already have a bootable BIOS so DOS creates drive letters itself at boot time already. Eric PS: You should not expect hotplugging with most drivers, but I guess some of the DOS USB drivers do support it maybe DUSE does... ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
