> Am 14.04.2021 um 16:57 schrieb Tomas By <to...@basun.net>: > > On Wed, 14 Apr 2021 16:25:37 +0200, Thomas Desi wrote: >> [...] USB Stick on a FreeDOS [...] This is absolutely crucial to me, >> otherwise how would I be able to get something out or in to the >> computer?? > > By dual-booting and reading the Freedos FAT partition from Linux or > Windows... > oops — I killed the Windows7 professional to install a „bare metal“ FreeDos on it, naively thinking to get rid of other helper OSs … > > >> I just installed FreeDos on an ITX and harddisk. I can read and >> write on the disk and the Usb Stick, if I boot directly from the >> Stick. It doesn’t work the other way round, i.e. booting from the >> disk and trying to D: (=USB Stick) to read/write. > > You need to change the boot order in the BIOS, to boot from the HD > (with the stick inserted).
This doesn’t work here. The stick is not recognised when booting from HD with stick inserted. In this case, the Freedos startup screen (shall I say?), prints „3 disks available - no disk assigned“. I looked up the ASSIGN command but this doesn't make sense to use in this case? Something is recognized but not accessible... > > >> (I care about using FreeDos, not the CPU or Bios or computer >> etc. Raspberry is nice, because small like FreeDOS!) > > Well, "you may not be interested in the BIOS, but the BIOS is > interested in you", or something. > I just wanted prioritize the use of FreeD-OS (and not Linux, Windows or MacOS) against on what machine I could make it work. (Having 2 old laptops, 2 minicomputers, 1 atx… at least one of these should be working? The MSI and the SAMSUNG laptops, by the ways, didn’t allow for installing FreeDOS. „Packages not found“ and that’s that. It is definitely the BIOS that doesn’t allow for it. I think Stephanos had this issue in his last threads discussed. I gave up on that and start from USB Stick. Great solution, but I don’t trust USB Sticks as a storage device. I have a couple of them which stopped working („kaputt“) … against Harddisk only a second choice. Correct me... regards, T-h-omas > /Tomas > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
