Hi, On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 11:31 AM, Marlon Ng <guik...@gmail.com> wrote: > > In the meantime, can somebody please give me a straight answer once and for > all: > > 1. Is it or is it not possible to install freedos in a partition of a hard > drive by using a flash drive (instead of a CD)?
If your computer can boot from USB and you have the necessary files (e.g. fdisk, format, sys), then yes it should work fine. > I have successfully installed freedos thru a CD, and if it's possible to do > it via flash drive, > wouldn't that be awesome? I don't understand why you think it's not possible. Obviously DOS doesn't have native USB support, but that is often fulfilled by the BIOS at bootup, so it emulates a hard drive for your jump drive. > If it's possible, why aren't there any documentation for it? I'm not sure what docs you expected. Some of this is third-party stuff (e.g. already-mentioned RUFUS, UNetBootIn, various Linux methods, etc), so it's not directly hosted by the FreeDOS project. > If it's NOT possible, why aren't the geniuses making > it possible? I mean, CD's are on the way out, aren't they? CDs will probably never go away, but indeed a lot of stuff nowadays is "online only", aka streaming. Also, if you can just read from .iso directly, there's less need to burn a physical disc. > Earlier today I've made a bootable freedos flashdrive using UNETBOOTIN. > Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't it suppose to be the same as burning the > .iso image onto a CD to install freedos in the hard drive? but instead of > using a CD, I'm using a flash drive. Aren't they basically the same? You can boot a USB jump drive from .iso file on the device. Or it (files, boot sector, etc) could all be written directly instead. Either way, as long as your device can boot DOS and it can see your physical hardware (e.g. hard disk), you should be able to install from it. > Anyway, I'm not sure but the installation looked like it went well, but I > can't boot from it, even if I ran the postinst.bat file. How many OSes are you trying to have installed on the same device? Anything with multiple OSes needs extra (complicated) work. The easiest install is where DOS is the only OS. In that case, you only need a bootable, active FAT partition. That means you need to create it with fdisk, reboot, format it, then install the boot sector via sys. Again, I suggest you try under a virtual machine (e.g. QEMU) first, just to see what works. > Seems like installing via CD is the only sure way to install?? No. (Remember floppies?) Or maybe you're talking about the "installer" proper? But you don't even need that at all. > 3. A little bit unrelated but I hope you can answer: A dual boot computer, > Windows and a Linux Distro. In Windows, the printer is LPT1. In Linux > distro, it is LPT0. This is an actual thing (our office computer). Why is > that? Is that the reason why, when I'm using dosbox in the LInux Distro to > run a clipper program, it cannot print? (because the clipper program only > want LPT1). Any solutions for that? Ask on the DOSBox forum for that. Not sure, but presumably there is a reasonable solution. http://www.vogons.org/viewforum.php?f=53 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
