My BOOT DOS USB stick was created using Rufus and the usb full image of RC5 and created on the Windows 10 platform. Initially I had problems trying to create the disk - but it turned out that because of me "folder protecting (windows)" all drives - windows would not let me Rufus the stick. Simply by (temporarily) " un folder protect the USB drive", I successfully created my USB BOOT via the USB full RC5 image from your site.
I do not know about the CD version. So I am always booting off the USB stick and it is partitioned with C:\, D:\ and E:\ drives. The C:\ drive is ~ 512 MB and with all the "full FreeDOS stuff", it left me with about 70 MB. Tons of free space on D:\ and E:\ with my 16 GB USB stick. Note that I do not install FreeDOS on the hard drive (which has Windows 10). Using only the USB stick (not an additional CD drive) works fine with me. Just a side note, I always ensure that if I want another USB stick at the same time (eg data files) - that the additional USB sticks are "plugged in" BEFORE freedos booting up. Also I had some issues in which of the 4 USB ports on my laptop the BOOT stick is plugged in (if I had two or more USB sticks plugged in). On my laptop, only two ports are USB 3, the other two are USB 2. Only one of the USB 2 ports can handle a USB 1 device. So watch out on the USB "speed" of the BOOT disk itself - may need to trial and error which stick goes where (if more than one used). Note my laptop has a "Legacy mode" and if I wanted to, could also have the CSM (?) mode for DOS boot up. Hope this helps. Richard ________________________________ From: Jerome Shidel <jer...@shidel.net> Sent: Sunday, 17 April 2022 7:34 PM To: FreeDOS Users <freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS and Rufus Hi All, A first time user reported having issues booting the 1.3 LiveCD after creating a USB stick with Rufus. Other than a few minor things, I don’t use windows. So if one of you are familiar with the tools they are using, they could probably use some help or at least some pointers on getting a bootable USB stick. https://gitlab.com/FreeDOS/issue-reporting/-/issues/27 Thanks, Jerome
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