Hi again, On Fri, Nov 9, 2018 at 3:36 PM stecdose <stecd...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Okay, maybe this would work for you to create a bootable FreeDOS stick > ...
(Huh, that link just says to use RUFUS. But it also assumes you want/need to download the "full" FD 1.2, which isn't strictly necessary.) Yet another tool is this (basically "dd" for Windows): * https://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/ > The SYS tool is in freedos CD image (ISO, unpack with 7zip or similar). Only "7z" [sic] unpacks .iso (last I checked), and I've never personally tried rebuilding that variant with DJGPP (since it needs .so support, and I'm not super familiar with .dxe). I haven't looked at Mik's 16.02 build sources (assuming they're even sane), esp. since he included .RAR support (sources available but non-free). For now, "7za" was good enough for my simple needs. But you can probably hack "7z" to build and halfway work somehow. (Oh, you can also mount .ISO via SHSUCDHD or whatever it's called, but I've never really tried that.) But you don't need to jump through hoops just for SYS, grab it here: * http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.2/repos/base/kernel.zip (See "BIN/SYS.COM", but yes, you also eventually need some kernel [KERNEL.SYS] and shell [COMMAND.COM], though you can copy manually later without "sys /k" or whatever, e.g. "/BOOTONLY".) * http://help.fdos.org/en/hhstndrd/base/sys.htm N.B. Although I have literally zero experience with it, UEFI needs CSM (compatibility support module) for BIOS-based systems like DOS. But not all UEFI systems have it available (and eventually none will). _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
