Op 10-11-2012 12:11, André Bachmann schreef: > Well, all of this problems would be much less annoying if there would > be an image on the FreeDOS site which I can simply dd to an USB drive > - all of these error prone steps would be unnecessary.
Which emulation or (para)virtualisation product uses/produces harddisk images that can directly be 'dd'ed to a physical disk? I've experimented a bit with Isohybrid images (CD image with harddisk header) that can be written to USB stick, but afterwards Windows doesn't like the stick anymore as it wants to format it. Also installing FreeDOS on the same stick isn't that much of a success. USB stick partition layout: * MBR (not UEFI/EFI's GPT) * partition 1: active, primary, (unknown / non-DOS) read-only ISO9660 * partition 2: primary, FAT32, writeable. After writing the FreeDOS CD to partition 1, and booting from the stick, the idea is a small bootdisk image is loaded in memory from this CD filesystem (DOS boots only from FAT, not ISO9660) after which the rest of the 1st partition is accessed. Unfortunately no CD driver exists for this kind of scenario. A workaround is loading a secondary ISO file in memory from this 1st partition, allowing FreeDOS to find its files using the ELTORITO.SYS driver. With the files found, creation and installation to partition 2 is possible Windows insisting on removable media not being allowed to have partitions, let alone using unrecognised filesystems on them, isn't helping at all to proceed. [ http://code.google.com/p/nanox-microwindows-nxlib-fltk-for-dos/wiki/XFDOS ] uses a bootable harddisk image but no individual harddisk image file is available, only a CD which uses harddisk-emulation. Bernd ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_nov _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
