I used the GNU utility "dd". It comes with every distribution of Linux, FreeBSD or whatever.
It allow you to do things like put disk images onto drives. The correct way to use it for the FreeDOS USB image is this: First you unzip the image: > unzip FD13-FullUSB.zip You may have to install the Info-Zip package since Unix derivatives don't use zip files as often as MS Windows does. This will give you a file called "FD13-FullUSB.img". Then put in the USB key. If the system automatically mounts it then you have to unmount it. You can use the Windowing system, right click on the icon and selection "unmount" or "safely remove hardware". Then find out what device it is. You can find the list of devices using > lsblk Let's say that it's /dev/sdb. You then do: > dd if=FD13-FullUSB.img of=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=4M That will copy the image to the drive. I have heard that on Windows there is a graphical program called Rufus which can do it easily. Though I've never used it. BR, Robert Thorpe Thomas Cornelius Desi via Freedos-user <freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> writes: > 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 _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
