Hi James, > just got a new laptop. I was just wondering before I install > freedos, is it possible to get support of my cd rom drive?
I would say yes, of course. The normal way to install FreeDOS is to boot from the install CD-R / CD-RW :-) > one of the things I found disappointing about freedos was the > lack of floppy support and cd drive support. That is unexpected. Every version of DOS always supports floppy disk, because the BIOS "is the driver" for that. For the CD drive, you can use UIDE and SHSUCDX which are the IDE / SATA hardware driver and the ISO9660 filesystem driver, respectively. They also support DVD / BD and long file names. However, UDF filesystems are not supported by SHSUCDX or MSCDEX, so you would use other drivers for UDF. > I am wondering if I can somehow install a couple of drivers > and edit my configuration file if I could get support > for a floppy and or cd drive? See above. Floppy will not need drivers and for UIDE and SHSUCDX, you can read the documentation or search the web for example config sys / autoexec bat lines to use them. Regards, Eric PS: For USB drives (floppy, CD, DVD, BD, flash sticks and external harddisks, SSDs, cardreaders, CF, SD and so on) the BIOS can be driver if you plug them in before boot. Or use Bret John's or Georg Potthast's DOS USB driver :-) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Colocation vs. Managed Hosting A question and answer guide to determining the best fit for your organization - today and in the future. http://p.sf.net/sfu/internap-sfd2d _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
