Thank you Tomas for your response. Maybe I had explained it wrong . I have installed FreeDOS on my laptop . It is working now. I only miss the USB controller installed on it by default . I would like to plug my USB , write "d:" ( for example ) and enter in my device , exactly like when you write "a:" to read a floppy disk.
I installed some controllers , some guys sent me links , but , when I tested it, the computer was frozen or said "USB not detected". I think this is the worst laptop in the world , but the computer is in a piece of furniture gathering dust and I would like to put it to use, at least for my retro projects in Turbo C 3.0. Anyway, other solutions could be to start the OS directly from the USB but it is like using Linux from a USB live instead of your hard drive. The screen is too small, that is why I would like to use an external screen, but the VGA external port never starts , but I will try a solution written in the last email. *Gabriel González González* El lun, 15 sept 2025 a las 23:54, Tomas By via Freedos-user (< [email protected]>) escribió: > On Tue, 16 Sep 2025 00:40:17 +0200, Louis Santillan via Freedos-user wrote: > > USB functionality came much later after DOS was popular. Cobbling > > together the few available drivers and blog posts about them will be > > what you need to do. > > > > On Mon, Sep 15, 2025 at 12:15 PM Gabriel González via Freedos-user < > [email protected]> wrote: > > My laptop is [...] hp hstnn-I70c [HP Mini 110] > > BIOS configuration is too limited, I can not change anything, > > only the boot order. [...] > > > > https://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebooks-Archive-Read-Only/can-a-HP-Mini-boot-to-a-USB-drive/td-p/3597463 > > "Please put the USB thumbdrive into a USB port. Press the power > button try tapping the F9 key." > > "I tried going into CMOS setup and my 3 alternative boot choices are > USB Floppy, USB CD/DVD ROM, and USB Diskette on Key/USB Hard Drive." > > > Sounds exactly like any other PC I have seen since at least twenty > years ago. Put the USB stick in before you turn on the power. It > should show up as a drive with its own drive letter. > > /Tomas > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user >
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