Hi,
On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 5:20 PM, Péter Szőke wrote:
> Dear Members,
>
> Is there any way to install the Freedos from USB stick/Pendrive to HDD.
Why install to HDD? Why not just use a bootable USB as if it were your HDD?
> I have a notebook without optical drive.
> The notebook has Windows 1
>Its BIOS has Legacy USB support and it is enabled.
My bad, I meant to check for UEFI or Legacy option for your hard drive
operating system. For example, I have an ACER E5-571 and to use FreeDOS I
must choose the Legacy option, but I still am limited to SATA only there is
no IDE option. To intall F
On 3/17/2016 6:04 PM, Don Flowers wrote:
> PS - Check you BIOS and enable legacy support.
>
Anyone wanna take bets that this laptop only has an UEFI BIOS, and no
legacy BIOS anymore?
Ralf
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One important aspect is the ability to turn off secure boot and Legacy BIOS
support, not just Legacy USB support. More and more of these low-end
devices have Secure Boot turned on and can't be turned off, and even then
some of them don't boot OSes that don't have UEFI bootloaders.
I have an HP Str
Hi again,
On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 6:09 AM, Péter Szőke wrote:
>
> I will try answer to everyone.
>
> So, I have this model: Asus k501lx-dm045d
A quick search finds this:
https://www.asus.com/Notebooks/K501LX/
They are very reminiscent of Apple with that page. I don't see any
mentions of FreeD
The only way that I know of that *might* work is if you have access to
linux where you use a linux DD command so that the USB would show up as the
A: drive - if you are not in a hurry, I will experiement over the weekend,
Meanwhile have you seen this site?
http://www.chtaube.eu/computers/freedos/
Interesting. I won't be able to test this here until next week, but
thanks for the promising lead!
On 3/16/2016 4:24 PM, Don Flowers wrote:
> I may have found a solution for your EDIT / Mouse issue. On one of my
> PC's (an old Compaq) I use this driver:
> http://h20566.www2.hp.com/hpsc/swd/publ
I may have found a solution for your EDIT / Mouse issue. On one of my PC's
(an old Compaq) I use this driver:
http://h20566.www2.hp.com/hpsc/swd/public/detail?sp4ts.oid=92231&swItemId=PSG_I8512_18797&swEnvOid=139
SP2259,EXE Logitech Mouse
which has a DOS enhancement for mouse sensitivity, speed et
Dear Members,
Is there any way to install the Freedos from USB stick/Pendrive to HDD.
I have a notebook without optical drive.
The notebook has Windows 10 certification.
I have tried some program for example Rufus, but I could not solve.
The main problem was that : the pendrive was the only visibl
PS - Check you BIOS and enable legacy support.
On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 8:58 PM, Don Flowers wrote:
> The only way that I know of that *might* work is if you have access to
> linux where you use a linux DD command so that the USB would show up as the
> A: drive - if you are not in a hurry, I wil
I'm guessing that may well be the case.
On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 9:27 PM, Ralf Quint wrote:
> On 3/17/2016 6:04 PM, Don Flowers wrote:
> > PS - Check you BIOS and enable legacy support.
> >
> Anyone wanna take bets that this laptop only has an UEFI BIOS, and no
> legacy BIOS anymore?
>
> Ralf
>
>
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