I checked the computer bios before I made a bootable USB stick. In the boot order list, there is a boot from USB line already checked. I simply moved it to the top of the list. I'm quite sure the computer will boot from a USB stick.
It clearly did start the boot process and I got the screen where FreeDos ask if I want to create drive C: (on the stick I think. I'm a novice at this and there are plenty of rather cryptic questions for which I'm guessing the answer.) Several screens later it halted. I think it may be the same place it halted when I tried to load it in VirtualBox. I've spent too much time with this already. (I don't have that much time left at 80 years old. My experience is writing a fission decay program in Fortran II for an IBM 704 computer. Bloody damn hard even when I was only 35.) It's possible that my download of FreeDos got corrupted, so I'll download it again and repeat the process. I also tried to duel boot my old XT machine with Ubuntu (32 bit variety) and there I have the idea that the video card that I installed many years ago is the culprit, so I'm going to update it and see what happens. I may try that game DOS as well. Tough to keep up with an information doubling time of 2 years. (Same equation as radioactive decay except for the minus sign.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sponsored by Intel(R) XDK Develop, test and display web and hybrid apps with a single code base. Download it for free now! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=111408631&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
