Hi Ron, > But I am not oin the league of you folks that get into the guts of > this DOS. The question I have is this Can one of you if not a team get > together and fix this DOS so that I or anyone could boot from a DVD or
Well to fix it, you would first have to tell us what is broken... > CD which ever and run this DOS off that media? I would also want it to Booting FreeDOS from CD/DVD is relatively easy, and some people have howtos on their homepage where they explain how to make bootable DOS CD/DVD. Use rewriteable CD/DVD for your experiments, then you can reuse them until you made a really nice version :-). > recognize all my drives including the memory card readers? > Would this be impossible? Memory card readers can be hard, but USB sticks are usually okay. Often they are even supported by the BIOS, so DOS needs no drivers. > If not I would really like to have this DOS to be able to run > off a DVD or CD in other words boot from either. Yes, no problem. I usually burn the official FreeDOS ISOs or pre- releases of them on DVD-RW when I want to try them :-). Booting from DVD is pretty similar to booting from CD. You only have to take care that only ISO and not UDF filesystems are supported, apart from that, DOS can read both CD and DVD. > can't take the chance I would mess something up and not > be able to fix it. And I wouldn't have the knowledge to fix Its often easier to fix Windows than you would think, as long as you have the emergency console tools on diskette or CD. Do not confuse them with the stupid "reinstall Windows and delete all data, then at least Windows works again" function in XP. If you use the 1.0 ISOs, you have to take care that they are meant for installing DOS on harddisk. You may prefer to make your own "use only, do not install" CD because of that. See the howtos online. A good DOS base can be the diskette distro from Rugxulo: http://rugxulo.googlepages.com/ which is also much newer than FreeDOS 1.0 :-). Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
