> On Wed, May 07, 2025 at 10:17:10AM +0200, Alex via Freedos-user wrote: >Hello, I wanted to ask if there's a way to install full FreeDOS OS on a >USB stick, not the FullUSB live version, but the full operating system.
Works very well, using Qemu on Linux hosts and when booting from a bare metal PC. I did create a second/third partition on the USB flash media for writing the CD Bonus ISO to the third partition (eg. dd), and fdimples does detect the second/third parititon as the CD Bonus ISO. From Linux/Unix: Write the FD 1.4 USB install image to USB flash media: # dd if=FD14FULL.img of=/dev/sdf bs=4M ; sync Think I subsequently resized/shrinked the partition(s) as needed, created a second/third partition (400MB sized) for the FreeDOS-1.4 BONUS CD ISO, then: # dd if=FD14BNS.iso of=/dev/sdfX bs=4M ; sync Qemu needs the root device file, not the partition number for booting, and will auto detect the BONUS CD ISO partition: $ qemu-system-i386 -enable-kvm -m 1024 -rtc base=localtime \ -drive format=raw,file=/dev/sda -boot c -usb \ -display gtk,zoom-to-fit=on -net nic,model=pcnet -net user \ -usbdevice mouse -device sb16 -device adlib \ -audio driver=alsa,id=snd0,out.dev=default -audiodev alsa,id=snd0 \ -machine pcspk-audiodev=snd0 -vga cirrus Bare metal PCs, I forget if the BONUS CD ISO image partition is detected or not. As I look over my partition scheme for FreeDOS-1.4, 1) Partition one is the root FreeDOS-1.4 image partition. 2) Second partition is a simulated extra (eg. /home) partition for persistent user data, keeping the root image if FreeDOS-1.4 is updated. 3) Third partition is the FreeDOS BONUS CD ISO image. Roger
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