Hi! > first, am I correct that one can boot freedos from a USB stick? > Say with an off the shelf sort of laptop?
Yes. There are several tools to put DOS on USB sticks. Yet we do not offer easy tools on our own homepage for that as far as I remember. The topic comes back from time to time on the list - maybe we could put a short text about the most popular methods on our homepage? We probably already LINK one or more (older) texts... > second, am I correct that if one burns the latest copy of freedos to a cd > or dvd, one can accomplish the same thing? as in insert the live disk and > boot from it? You can boot by burning our ISO on CD / DVD / BD. Many tools will not be pre-installed on CD, but you should be able to start a command-line RAMDISK and install all what is shipped on the CD (in ZIPs) to that if you want. In any case you always get a basic DOS by booting from our ISO, simply because the install process itself runs in DOS and it is optional to actually install to disk. You can also use Rugxulo Ruffidea or similar "a lot of FreeDOS on a single floppy image" as the "boot image" when burning any other CD / DVD. Then you get the same result as if you had booted from an actual floppy :-) I think the two use cases above would be popular: Maybe somebody can give step by step recipes for them or tell us that everything is actually easier than I assumed :-) Regards, Eric PS: Note that DOS typically does not boot in widescreen screen resolutions by default, so you will have black bars at the sides. Also, DOS only uses 1 CPU core and max 4 GB RAM and 2 TB per disk, more will be ignored. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Want excitement? Manually upgrade your production database. When you want reliability, choose Perforce Perforce version control. Predictably reliable. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=157508191&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
