Re: [Freedos-user] Big bootable disk for CD

Thank you, Dennis and TJ. I do indeed have 16 gigabytes of memory on my box. It is running a 6 core processor and "gaming motherboard" (that is MSI's description for it) which I've repurposed for server work. Specifically it is being transformed into a network attached storage server running Fr

Re: [Freedos-user] Big bootable disk for CD

On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 4:30 PM, TJ Edmister wrote: > On Sun, 22 Jan 2012 14:07:01 -0500, dmccunney > wrote: >> FreeDOS *is* a DOS system, so you'll have the standard DOS limit of >> 1MB of real memory, and 640KB of conventional memory available to >> applications. >> >> The box I have FreeDOS o

Re: [Freedos-user] Big bootable disk for CD

On Sun, 22 Jan 2012 14:07:01 -0500, dmccunney wrote: > On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 1:55 PM, Bob Cochran > wrote: >> Thank you, Bret. I was just able to buy some reasonably priced USB >> drives and I'll play with installing FreeDOS on these. I too seem to >> remember that Win98 or Win XP DOS boot

Re: [Freedos-user] Big bootable disk for CD

On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 1:55 PM, Bob Cochran wrote: > Thank you, Bret. I was just able to buy some reasonably priced USB > drives and I'll play with installing FreeDOS on these. I too seem to > remember that Win98 or Win XP DOS boot disks always boot with an > extended memory management applicatio

Re: [Freedos-user] Big bootable disk for CD

Thank you, Bret. I was just able to buy some reasonably priced USB drives and I'll play with installing FreeDOS on these. I too seem to remember that Win98 or Win XP DOS boot disks always boot with an extended memory management application. Does FreeDOS have the equivalent? The machine I'm test

Re: [Freedos-user] Big bootable disk for CD

> My motherboard BIOS update program afud3410.exe (made by MSI) seems > to freeze up when I try to start the BIOS update. The directions for ? using it say never update the BIOS from a floppy drive, then proceed > to give directions for doing exactly that, but using Windows 98 or > Windows XP boota

Re: [Freedos-user] Big bootable disk for CD

I succeeded in booting FreeDOS using isolinux last night. I don't have any spare USB sticks handy, so I kept trying different methods and making a fresh CD for each one until one worked. I learned that my image file "FreeDOSmsi.img" had too long a filename. I shortened it to "dfboot.img". I als

Re: [Freedos-user] Big bootable disk for CD

Op 20-1-2012 14:39, Bob Cochran schreef: > which is my immediate goal. I also need to be able to update the > firmware for an LSISAS1068 chip that is on a PCI Express adapter card, I > have 3 of these cards to update. Now you see where my motivation comes > from. Several times a year at least I hav

Re: [Freedos-user] Big bootable disk for CD

The eltorito.sys is no use for FreeDOS, it is only for booting from the CD. To access the CD when booted from the CD, you need to load a regular CD driver like UIDE. The problem is that it works with only a fraction of existing hardware end is also picky about memory driver. I believe that ther

Re: [Freedos-user] Big bootable disk for CD

Bernd, Thank you very much for posting this, it will be a big help to me in learning isolinux. I want to learn both this method and Eric's, where one boots FreeDOS directly without isolinux. I will try making the changes you suggest over the weekend and trying again to boot FreeDOS with help f

Re: [Freedos-user] Big bootable disk for CD

Hi Eric, Thank you very much for your help with this, and I am going to try your method this weekend also. I want to learn both your method and the isolinux method. I still need to get that motherboard BIOS update done, which is my immediate goal. I also need to be able to update the firmware

Re: [Freedos-user] Big bootable disk for CD

Hi Alain, Thanks for responding. I think that Eric's post in this thread also answers your question about putting FreeDOS on an SD card. With all the feedback I should be able to create a successful FreeDOS boot CD this evening or weekend. Bob On 1/19/12 3:46 PM, Alain Mouette wrote: > The M

Re: [Freedos-user] Big bootable disk for CD

Op 19-1-2012 21:46, Alain Mouette schreef: > The MKISOFS is the one that brings it all toghether. The freeDOS image > is passed as an argument to be loaded in memory and then executed. If creating a direct (floppy/harddisk) emulation CD then you'll indeed need to pass the name of the floppy/hdd i

Re: [Freedos-user] Big bootable disk for CD

Hi Bob, not sure about your plans but... How about installing DOS directly to some disk / SD / USB / CF without ISO? To boot DOS with isolinux, you have to use memdisk, a bootable ramdisk which initially loads a diskimage and which boots as if it would be a Linux kernel with some initrd image fr

Re: [Freedos-user] Big bootable disk for CD

The MKISOFS is the one that brings it all toghether. The freeDOS image is passed as an argument to be loaded in memory and then executed. Anyway, this was a good feedback, I am planning a FreeDOS release withou my programs, and I will make that more clear and more specific, I gesse that the scr

Re: [Freedos-user] Big bootable disk for CD

Hi Alain, Bernd, Eric: I followed the instructions below from Alain, using my Fedora 14 (Linux) box. I didn't have 100% success but I am much closer! I created an image file in the manner described below. I wondered where to find command.com and kernel.sys...so I downloaded the FreeDOS iso for

Re: [Freedos-user] Big bootable disk for CD

Hi Alain, Thank you very much for this, I downloaded it. I'll play with it and see if I can get this BIOS flashing to work. It is clear that I need to develop technical knowledge of FreeDOS if I want to learn how to flash some motherboards properly. Again, many thanks! Bob On 1/17/12 7:12 P

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Ah, ok, next message :) Well, you can use mine :) 1) Grab this: 2) don't touch the COSMODAT dir... (no big deal, there is a password on sensitive files) 3) the FreeDOS/Disk is a perfect image of the boot disk, the CosmoDOS.i

Re: [Freedos-user] Big bootable disk for CD

Alain, I would like to try your method. I did something like this a few months ago but evidently missed a step since my CD would not really boot. This was to enable flashing a BIOS update on a motherboard. Can you tell me the names of all the files needed in your step 7? Perhaps I missed a fil

Re: [Freedos-user] Big bootable disk for CD

Op 17-1-2012 20:27, Alain Mouette schreef: > I have done this some time ago, it may help. It is for CD, but it would > be nice to convert it to SD-card... Alain, thanks for your explicit instructions, they're very clear..if running Linux :) Some pre-made images seem available already from: [ htt

Re: [Freedos-user] Big bootable disk for CD

I have done this some time ago, it may help. It is for CD, but it would be nice to convert it to SD-card... Alain Em 15-06-2011 11:51, Alain Mouette escreveu: > > How can I make a big (6Mb) bootable image to use in the CD? > This is the only part of the CD that I can read on *any* machine, I am

Re: [Freedos-user] Big bootable disk for CD

Em 15-06-2011 11:51, Alain Mouette escreveu: > > How can I make a big (6Mb) bootable image to use in the CD? > This is the only part of the CD that I can read on *any* machine, I am > using isolinux) With lots of help fom Eric Auer, I managed to make a bootable image with FreeDOS. Here is how I

Re: [Freedos-user] Big bootable disk for CD

Op 15-6-2011 16:51, Alain Mouette schreef: > Hi, I am still having problems making an intaller from CD. I came across > an HP machine (MS219BR) that no drive recognizes and also external USB > CD drivers. So... I'm not understanding your situation, got some more details? Seems like you've got a non

[Freedos-user] Big bootable disk for CD

Hi, I am still having problems making an intaller from CD. I came across an HP machine (MS219BR) that no drive recognizes and also external USB CD drivers. So... How can I make a big (6Mb) bootable image to use in the CD? This is the only part of the CD that I can read on *any* machine, I am u