Hi, On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 5:58 PM, Jerome Shidel <jer...@shidel.net> wrote: > Hello Eric and all, > > A little more follow up on the USB stick test. > > The same user who was testing, per my suggestion ran it in advanced mode to > override > the automatic D: drive as the install target. He said the install ran > flawlessly when he > set it to C:\FDOS. > > He did say that he had an issue booting it. And basically, it seems to be > issues with the > FDCONFIG paths. So, I will have to see if I can get FreeDOS to boot and load > drivers from > an unknown drive letter. FDI doesn't care what drive it is running on. The > wrong target > issue was an assumption I made and will fix.
Just remove all mentions of absolute drive letters (in FDCONFIG.SYS) entirely. It should still work. "DEVICE=\FDOS\HIMEMX.EXE" That's what I did with my MetaDOS floppy image, and it works (once extracted) atop (RUFUS-made) USB as "C:" or floppy as "A:". > It appears that if I get the booting from G or L or X .... to work, a USB > stick installer may be viable. Not all USB sticks are bootable, but most are. Plus, old machines (like my P4) need help (e.g. PLoP boot manager first, which makes it read-only, which isn't ideal but far better than nothing). We always have third-party things like RUFUS or UNetBootIn, too. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Site24x7 APM Insight: Get Deep Visibility into Application Performance APM + Mobile APM + RUM: Monitor 3 App instances at just $35/Month Monitor end-to-end web transactions and take corrective actions now Troubleshoot faster and improve end-user experience. Signup Now! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=267308311&iu=/4140 _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
