I haven't tried putting the FreeDOS 1.1 installer on a USB fob drive, but
it would probably work if the ISO image was written using liveusb-creator.
https://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator/
I use this to every time I upgrade Linux on my laptop, because my laptop
doesn't have a CDROM drive. It's great!
On Jan 2, 2015 4:19 AM, "Christian Imhorst" <christian.imho...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I agree with Tom M. I would like to have a better installer, too. If I
> could use this installer to install FreeDOS 1.2 from USB stick instead of
> floppy and/or CD that would be really great. :-)
>
> Best regards and thank you very much
> Christian
>
> Thomas Mueller <mueler6...@twc.com> schrieb am Do., 1. Jan. 2015 13:18:
>
>> One thing I'd like to see in the next FreeDOS is a better installer.
>>
>> Installer should be writable to a USB stick or be bootable and runnable
>> from a disk image; there is a rather outdated FreeDOS runnable quasi-floppy
>> image on the System Rescue CD, though this image has no installer.
>>
>> I would like to see an installer (not necessarily bootable) that could
>> run from Linux or FreeBSD, since many computer users these days have no DOS
>> system, and running from Linux or FreeBSD would give the user more control
>> than booting FreeDOS and not knowing which partition or disk is which.
>>
>> I have big hard drives, 3 TB or bigger, partitioned GPT, so the only
>> place I could install FreeDOS to is a USB stick.
>>
>> Even on a modern system, FreeDOS can be useful for hardware diagnostic
>> tools or BIOS/UEFI flash update.
>>
>> Tom
>>
>>
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