Felix Miata via Freedos-user <freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> writes:
> To what end? So you can use FreeDOS. > Who can find one as small as 2G any more? Well you can definitely do it with one bigger than 2G! > Disconnecting internal drives can be no small bother. My most used machines > are > not readily opened. Some BIOS get all bent out of shape when storage is added > or > removed, instead of POSTing in seconds, it can take more than a minute. Some > of > the older ones cannot be booted from USB. I find USB storage a considerable > nuisance, as they present no consistency in shape to facilitate storing them, > and > no place on them to write enough information that's big enough to read. A good point. You can get around that by finding out the drive letter of the empty USB drive. * Boot into the FreeDOS installer. * Drop out of the installer and do FDISK /STATUS. ** This should show you that the empty USB key is present. ** This will give you a drive letter for the empty USB key. * Go back to "C:\" and run "SETUP". ** That will drop you back into the installer again. ** You should see the second USB drive there and you can install to it. > Before installing according to website directions, I first installed from 1.2 > media the old fashioned way: SYS C:. It worked, without any damage to existing > partition table or other partitions. However, rather than xcopying from the > installation media to C:, I was foiled by absence of .com and .exe files to > copy > to see, with most everything packed in .ZIP files. Yes, you could do it that way. You have to check that you have installed everything. Another approach is to use that copying over method until you have enough to run FDIMPLES. Then you can run that and move from there. BR, Robert Thorpe _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
