Hi Joseph,
> If your computer can boot a cd, or can boot a floppy, you can install > FreeDOS. Booting from USB stick is an option with many modern BIOSes, too, and supported by FreeDOS. > I could probably boot it up on this laptop since it's in legacy mode, > but, I don't think FreeDOS would recognize the sata drive. As long as the BIOS can boot from it, FreeDOS supports your harddisk. For better speed with DOS drivers, avoid AHCI mode, though: SATA and IDE / PATA / ATAPI drives can operate faster with drivers such as UHDD and, for CD/DVD/BD, UDVD2, which of course can also be used with most other DOS versions, such as MS DOS. Only MBR partition tables up to 2 TB will be recognized, which can cause dual boot issues. MS DOS also sees all BIOS-recognized harddisks but can only do CHS MBR partitions within the first 8 GB and only FAT16 partitions with at most 2 GB size per partition. The DOS which comes with Windows 95 / 98 is a bit more flexible, so it can be used more or less on the same harddisks etc. as FreeDOS. Regards, Eric _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
