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 
> 
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