Hi, > On Aug 22, 2024, at 6:37 PM, Kevin Gordon via Freedos-user > <freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > [..] > Floppy and CD drive seem to function properly. > Nothing is plugged into the expansion slots. > It is perhaps helpful to know that the floppy installer does not fully work, > (failing on the fourth disk) nor do FullUSB and LiteUSB when used with plop > boot manager. (https://www.plop.at/en/bootmanager/intro.html)
How is the Floppy install failing on the 4th diskette? Without further information and since that media has been used on various platforms, I suspect the diskette used is bad or ailing. As for the FullUSB and LiteUSB, those are disk images not disc images. They need to be written as-is to a USB Flash Drive, Hard disk or memory card. They contain partition and a partition table. Writing those images to a drive is easy under Linux or MacOS by simply using the “dd” command. However under Windows additional software would be needed. Such software is often designed to turn bootable CD/DVD images into bootable USB Sticks. If said software performs any modifications to the image while writing it to the drive, it is highly probable it will no longer boot or be usable. As for plop, never used it. So, can’t say why it won’t boot the USB install media.
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