Thank you for the response. I have a client that wants to up their system BIOS and OS with a single WinPE disk. The Windows BIOS utilities are 32-bit and will not run in a 64-bit WinPE image. System only supports booting to 64-bit WinPE. The DOS command line BIOS utility runs in FreeDOS
I would like the have the WinPE disk install FreeDOS to the internal drive and then copy all the update files over to the disk. From there, they can reboot and perform the update. Autoexec.bat makes the calls to run the BIOS utility. They then can boot into the WinPE disk to update the OS on the same internal drive. It is not clear how to install FreeDOS from WinPE. Is there a Windows command line utility that can install FreeDOS on a hard drive? Regards, Sean Liming Owner Annabooks Cell: 858-774-3176 From: stecdose <stecd...@gmail.com> Sent: Friday, November 9, 2018 12:59 AM To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Silently Install FreeDos from WinPE The is no described way to do what you want (or at least no that I know of). But is should be possible. Windows is able to create DOS partitions and format them (FAT16 for FreeDOS). If Windows does not want to create the partition you need, there are several free partition utilites for Windows. The DOS tool SYS copies the bootloader, maybe it works in Win9.x/WinME from inside Windows? I dont know. On the CD ISO there is the full set of packages. I think 7zip and tools like that support opening ISOs. The are a lot of zips - every program is a package. There is also a package installer program "FDIMPLES". Unpacking all those zips by hand could be a pain, but with "proper tools" (make em all blue in explorer, right click, extract to..., all at once) it should not be that hard. Default installation path is C:\FREEDOS. I just want you to ask, why are trying to do this? Are you having difficulties to boot that system from CD/Floppy? If you have problems booting a CD there are freedos boot floppies, as well as "PLOP Bootmanager". This one is on a floppy and allows to choose USB and CDROM. This works on a Pentium 133 board for me with a PCI-USB2 card. Hope you find a solution, Nils On 11/09/2018 09:05 AM, Sean Liming wrote: Is there a method to silently install FreeDos from WinPE to an internal drive of a computer? All I see from the downloads are .img files i.e. fs12lite.img. How does this get installed? Regards, Sean _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net <mailto:Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
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