The USB drivers make a flash drive look like a removable hard drive, not a floppy drive (though the drivers will also work with a USB floppy drive). You can't start with a floppy image.
If the BIOS will correctly boot from an external USB hard drive or flash drive, you can simply use the standard DOS tools and the disk should be directly bootable. You don't need to use a multi-stage process that involves booting another program, creating a RAMDISK and copying a floppy image, and booting from it (which is the way a lot of *nix-based software works). You can copy and delete and move files all you want to directly on the disk, without needing to manipulate an image. The problem you'll run into is that not all BIOS's work like they're supposed to, and won't boot correctly. Some will and some won't. Also, even if a flash drive comes formatted as a "super-floppy" (no MBR), you can re-partition it (with FDISK or Ranish Partition Manager or some other DOS utility) so that it does have an MBR if that's what you want. The drivers should work correctly whether it has an MBR or not. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
