Hi, My 2 cents worth…
Like Mateusz mentioned… There is no guarantee that the BIOS will permit disk writes to a booted USB stick. However since you intend on supporting only your personal machines, you can just do a quick test and not worry about that. A quick and dirty test would be to burn the FreeDOS install media to USB, boot it, create a file, reboot and verify it still exists. Assuming you can write to a booted USB… I’d keep using FreeCOM and just start with a clean FDCONFIG and FDAUTO and minimal drivers. Probably, very conservative memory and a mouse driver. Then for FDAUTO, just run your editor. However after the editor, perform a system shutdown. Probably something like this… FDCONFIG.SYS ———————— !COUNTRY=001,858:\COUNTRY.SYS !LASTDRIVE=Z !BUFFERS=20 !FILES=80 DOS=HIGH DEVICE=\FREEDOS\BIN\HIMEMX.EXE SHELL=\COMMAND.COM \ /E:1024 /P=\FDAUTO.BAT FDAUTO.BAT —————— @echo off set DOSDRV=C: set DOSDIR=%DOSDRV%\FREEDOS set PATH=%DOSDIR%\BIN set TEMP=%DOSDRV%\TEMP CTMOUSE EDIT FDAPM POWEROFF ECHO System failed to power off. Please turn it off manually now. However if you need CD/DVD support or some other functionality provided by the normal FreeDOS boot configurations, I would just add the specifics to the end of the normal FDAUTO.BAT file. :-) Jerome
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