Hi,
> On Jun 27, 2022, at 6:47 PM, Pierre LaMontagne <plamo...@comcast.net> wrote:
>
>
> First of all, I think FreeDOS is an outstanding replacement for the
> discontinued MS-DOS!!!
>
> I've been a happy camper & been a big fan of FreeDOS since v1.1. I use it
> mainly on my 'ancient' PC. This PC has been around since the late 1990s. I
> built it myself. It has an Intel Pentium III 450mhz CPU on an Asus P3b-F
> motherboard with one 256kb DIMM for RAM & VGA graphics on an AGP-4x video
> card (I think it's an NVIDIA 6200 GPU???).
>
> I usually use Linux (Ubuntu 20.04). It's on another OLD, but not quite as
> old PC, (about 10 years old) ... I've become a big fan of freeware!
>
> My 3rd PC (about the same age as the Linux PC) has Win 10 on it. I rarely use
> it anymore especially with the Win 11 release. ("I seen the writing on the
> wall" with Win11)
>
> I've recently wanted to upgrade my oldest PC as much as I could which
> includes going from FreeDOS 1.1 to FreeDOS 1.3. I dowloaded the packages
> that I thought I needed.
>
> I haven't tried it, but I'm pretty sure this oldest PC of mine won't boot
> from a CD. So I extracted the legacy ZIP which contained a floppy boot image
> & a CD ISO file. I then tried to extract the floppy IMG file to a
> new-never-used 1.44 mb floppy in hopes to later create a boot floppy in
> Ubuntu, but I couldn't even get that far because the floppy image file
> wouldn't fit on the new 1.44mb floppy. I then tried using the DVD drive to
> put the floppy IMG file on it but, writing to the DVD drive in a DOS
> environment won't work (at least not with my limited knowledge)...
>
> So now I'm stuck & don't know what else I can do. :(
> Any suggestions/help???
First, do not extract the files from Floppy Boot Diskette Image for the
LegacyCD and try to use those files to make a boot diskette. While it can be
done, it is tedious and error prone.
What you want to do is write the Boot Diskette Image to the Floppy Device. So,
what you want to do is the following…
1) insert the Floppy Diskette you want to overwrite. (Either an old school one
using the floppy controller or even a newer USB floppy drive)
2) figure out the the device name (probably /dev/floppy or /dev/floppy0).
3) unmount the floppy device. But, do not eject the diskette.
4) as superuser write the image file to the floppy device. example: “sudo dd
if=FD13BOOT.img of=/dev/floppy” You can add options for block size and count.
However, it usually works fine without them. WARNING: make sure it is actually
the floppy and not a hard drive or other device. If you write it to the wrong
device, you will destroy the filesystem on that device.
Depending on the speed of your floppy drive, it will probably take 5-7+ minutes
to write the image. But once finished writing, your done. You will have a
Floppy Boot Diskette for the CD ROM.
:-)
Jerome
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