Hi Robert, How did you get the »USB Installer« (of FreeDOS) onto your USB flash drive?
courious, need to know, best Thomas > On 16.10.2024, at 04:17, Robert Thorpe via Freedos-user > <freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > May I suggest installing FreeDOS to a USB flash drive. That is to one > of those little USB pendrives/ USB keys. > > I don't mean installing from a pendrive, I mean installing *to* one. > For FreeDOS you really don't need a large hard drive. 2GB is sufficient > and most USB keys are easily fast enough to keep up with DOS. > > With the PC off, disconnect your drive containing loads of partitions. > Then plug in a USB key with the USB installer on it and another blank > USB key. Then install from the first one to the second. This should > work if both are plugged in while the PC is being booted. > > BR, > Robert Thorpe > > Felix Miata via Freedos-user <freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> > writes: > >> Felix Miata composed on 2024-10-14 20:47 (UTC-0400): >> >>> After at least 3 decades, one might think a DOS disk partitioner, or the >>> FreeDOS >>> installer, might have acquired an ability to not disturb anything that is >>> part of >>> the target partition. No such was or is apparent. Now that FreeDOS is >>> installed, >>> only it can be booted, because it presumed it OK to move the boot flag off >>> the >>> partition on which I placed it. Fdisk remains of the errant notion that the >>> boot >>> flag can only be valid on a DOS partition, which is wholly untrue. Now I >>> must >>> locate some bootable Linux CD to boot for the singular purpose of changing >>> two >>> bytes in the partition table in order to make my other 20+ operating systems >>> bootable again. >> >>> What other damage is awaiting my discovery once the boot flag is back where >>> it was? >> >> Turns out, lots of damage: about 29 logical partitions deleted. The >> following is how I > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
