I use a custom kernel and found that on the USB image the system files are
hidden and read only. I used ATTRIB -R -S -H and then SYS with no problem.
On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 2:12 AM, Thomas Mueller <mueller6...@twc.com> wrote:
> > Well, FDI Preview 17 is not out yet. But, I though I would tell you
> about a new feature for the Power Users. The USB stick versions will
> contain a command line utility to recreate the entire FDI Build
> environment. So, all you
> > FreeDOS hackers out there can build your own personal completely
> customized installer.
>
> > From download to a built release, the whole process takes under 10
> minutes. I put a Mac+VirtualBox demo video up on Youtube at
> https://youtu.be/rKAq7HEQ1oE <https://youtu.be/rKAq7HEQ1oE> This feature
> is not available with the
> > current public Preview 16 release. But, it will give you something cool
> to look forward to in Preview 17.
>
> > A text version is available on the FDI wiki at
> https://github.com/shidel/FDI/wiki <https://github.com/shidel/FDI/wiki>
>
> > The FDI Build environment creation utility and the mkFDI release build
> utility are both V8Power Tools enhanced batch files running under FreeDOS
> 1.2-pre. The actual build process is a very complex batch file and is kind
> cool to
> > watch. If you just want to check out that, jump in a bit and just watch
> it from here mark https://youtu.be/rKAq7HEQ1oE?t=6m45s <
> https://youtu.be/rKAq7HEQ1oE?t=6m45s>
>
> > Thanks, Jerome
>
> Now I wonder if FDI will run in DOSBox running under FreeBSD, NetBSD or
> Linux. Or maybe boot from GRUB2 or grub4dos. I would install to USB
> stick, probably 4 GB; would likely use factory partitioning, would have to
> check cluster size so as not to be > 4 KB, might have to reformat from
> NetBSD or FreeBSD. Possibly install to hard-disk/USB-stick image and then
> dd or rsync to USB stick?
>
> It would be helpful if you could say how to boot FreeDOS using GRUB2,
> grub4dos or Syslinux; then I might be able to run SYS to make a nonbootable
> USB stick bootable. Or would the boot be via Syslinux?
>
> But when I ran SYS on USB-stick installation of FreeDOS 1.1, the file
> system was rendered nonreadable; I had to start over beginning with
> newfs_msdos from FreeBSD.
>
> Tom
>
>
>
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