Well, the MBR is special program located at sector 1 head 0, cylinder 0
with datastructure for partition information. The code for detecting
active Partition is 446 bytes long and then follow the partition table
entries (4 of them):
bootabledb ? ; Indicate active partition slice
beginhead db
On Fri, 2006-10-20 at 14:13 +0200, Norbert Remmel wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> found a promising project under www.boodaa.de
>
> There you will find an application called bootdisk2bootstick v0.8.
> This application can create a bootable usb stick using a bootable floppy
> image.
> The only problem is tha
Hi all,
found a promising project under www.boodaa.de
There you will find an application called bootdisk2bootstick v0.8.
This application can create a bootable usb stick using a bootable floppy
image.
The only problem is that the usb stick is only 1.44MB in size after
that, but it is bootable.
I
On Tue, 2006-10-17 at 08:47 +0200, Norbert Remmel wrote:
> Hi Art,
>
> attached an iso-file which boots freedos and mounts the mass-strorage
> device attached to the usb controller.
> the image also contains fdisk (and xfdisk if fdisk fails), format and
> the sys command for making the usb stick b
HI Michael:
Once the USB stick is bootable, you can copy the DOS files
needed to the USB stick manually from Windows (or Linux).
If you have FreeDOS installed to a hard disk partition
somewhere, you could copy the files from there. If I
wanted the full FreeDOS installation, I'd install it
to a ha
please remove my email from list !
tnkx !!
- Original Message -
From: "Norbert Remmel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 4:59 AM
Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos on USB memor stick (partially solved)
> Hi Art,
>
> attached an iso
Norbert, if you had REALLY sent the file to the list, then
95% of the many readers of this MAILING LIST would have been
quite angry at you now because their mailbox got flooded with
an unrequested large ISO file. So it is good that you did not
manage to send the file through the list. As a general
Hi Art,
attached an iso-file which boots freedos and mounts the mass-strorage
device attached to the usb controller.
the image also contains fdisk (and xfdisk if fdisk fails), format and
the sys command for making the usb stick bootable.
Hope that helps.
Norbert.
P.S. Due to sourceforge reject
nd allowing users to download it in peices? would be better than
> messing around with cdrom image files of megabyte proportion>?
>
> --chris
> http://www.aotksc.com/
>
> > Original Message ----
> > Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos on USB memor
[Freedos-user] Freedos on USB memor stick (partially
> solved)
> From: "Michael McStarfighter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Mon, October 16, 2006 2:37 pm
> To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net
>
>
> How do you install the full distro onto an USB flash drive
How do you install the full distro onto an USB flash drive / USB-HD? The HP tool doesn't work for this, especially not with an USB-HD. And everytime I boot the FreeDOS full CD with a plugged-in USB-HD or USB flash drive, there comes an "Invalid Opcode" and then it stops.
So what to do ?
Hi Art,
I think you can try "mount -t vfat -oloop
/opt/freedfos/freedosfile.img /mnt/freedos"
Geraldo
On 16/10/06, Art Fore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Got interuppted on this subject, but back on it now. I have got two USB
> sticks formated with the HP program. Can read and write to both as fa
If you can boot from the USB stick, you don't need and
can't use USBASPI.SYS and DI1000DD.SYS. If the
BIOS will boot the USB stick, it will automatically
appear as either A: or C:. Try that.
Mark
Art Fore wrote:
[...]
>
> Downloaded the USBASPI.SYS and DI1000DD.SYS and have them available.
>
>
Got interuppted on this subject, but back on it now. I have got two USB
sticks formated with the HP program. Can read and write to both as fat32
from Linux or Windows.
Downloaded the USBASPI.SYS and DI1000DD.SYS and have them available.
How ever, I tried the links in Mark Baily's last email
http
Norbert Remmel wrote:
>
> The only thing I don't know is how to create a floppy image file under
> linux or a bootable iso-file with floppy emulation because I'm not
> working with linux based systems.
>
> Norbert.
>
Use mkisofs. See http://www.itg.uiuc.edu/help/mkisofs/mkisofs.htm
(The same
Hi Art,
>> I have found this utility to work very well under WindowsXP to make
>> bootable DOS USB sticks. If you have access to a Windows computer,
>> it would be worth a try.
>>
>> http://h18000.www1.hp.com/support/files/serveroptions/us/download/20306.html
>>
This utility is the right and eas
OK, I will take the file to work where I can access an Xp mchine and see
what happens.
But still have some strange things happen that makes my head hurt. I
have freedos running under qemu.
have to go to work now. Will write more later.
Art
On Thu, 2006-10-12 at 12:59 -0400, Mark Bailey wrote:
Bernd Blaauw wrote:
> Art Fore schreef:
[...]
>
> Furthermore there's some tool from HP to configure flash USB disks to
> make them bootable. [...]
>
> Bernd
>
Hi Art and Bernd:
I have found this utility to work very well under WindowsXP to make
bootable DOS USB sticks. If you have access t
On 10/12/06, Art Fore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[...]
>
> How can I add files to the qemmu freedos image? Had no success on even
> doing this. Cannot see with ls either since it is a .img file. Can you
> really copy files to and from Freedos? If so, how?
>
> Art
A Qemu image can be loop-mounted u
Art Fore schreef:
> Giving up for tonight. Installed Freedos 1.0 under QEMU in SuSE 101. Go
> through the exersize of crating Freedos on the USB stick, it installs, I
> can boot it in qemmu. Pull it out, and put it in the laptop and boot,
> comes up with no OS. Cannot see any files on the stick wit
Giving up for tonight. Installed Freedos 1.0 under QEMU in SuSE 101. Go
through the exersize of crating Freedos on the USB stick, it installs, I
can boot it in qemmu. Pull it out, and put it in the laptop and boot,
comes up with no OS. Cannot see any files on the stick with ls on either
sdd or sdd1
Hi Art:
Well, if the "ls" command from Linux sees the DOS files on the USB
stick (that are booting) on either /dev/sdd or /dev/sdd1, then
doing a "cp" to the appropriate device, where Linux should now see
the DOS files and the ones you added, should put the files you want
on a large USB disk. Whe
Something I forgot to mention, I also do not have a floppy drive and
have not had for years.
Art
On Wed, 2006-10-11 at 15:02 -0400, Mark Bailey wrote:
> Hi Art:
>
> I am far from an expert here, but there are two models for booting
> from a USB stick. One is a "superfloppy" model where the enti
I understand now a bit more from your info and Eric Auers. I have a
couple of problems though. I do not have anything with dos on it other
than a CDROM with freedos.
If I boot with the CDROM, I cannot see the USB drives. Any way to do
that? If I could, I would be there.
Booting from USB drive, I ca
Hi Art:
I am far from an expert here, but there are two models for booting
from a USB stick. One is a "superfloppy" model where the entire
USB stick is formatted as a single giant floppy disk and the
other mode is where the USB stick has an MBR and is treated
basically like a hard disk.
See http
That did not work. Look at the partitions in yast partitioner, it
shows /dev/sdd a the disk drive, and /dev/sdd1 as a fat partition.
executing ms-sys -s /dev/sdd ; sync, I get Public domain syslinux master
boot record successfully written to /dev/sdd
Executing syslinux /dev/sdd ; sync, I get
sysli
Try copying the files to /dev/sdd
Since you had to do syslinux to /dev/sdd, and /dev/sdd1
didn't look like a valid FAT filesystem, I'm not sure
what the copy to /dev/sdd1 actually did.
Mark
Art Fore wrote:
> Have been trying unsuccessfully for two days to get freedos on a cruzer
> 256 meg memory
Have been trying unsuccessfully for two days to get freedos on a cruzer
256 meg memory stick. Best procedure I found was
http://users.dslextreme.com/~craig.lawson/linux_notes/flashing_bios.html
but did not work in the last step
syslinux /dev/sdd1 ; sync
syslinux: this doesn't look like a valid FAT
28 matches
Mail list logo
