Hi, > Is it possible to boot from a USB stick and also use > that as the primary "hard disk"?
Yes, if you BIOS supports it... There are a few styles of "hard disk" simulation for USB sticks, but there are howtos on the www which explain the details. You will have to try which styles are supported by your BIOS. There are also howtos about installing DOS on USB stick. Basically you mark the partition as bootable and SYS it. Caveat is that you need some sort of FDISK with USB... A Windows or Linux one should do the trick. The SYS is easier - you can load a DOS USB driver to access the partition, see other howtos online :-). Some BIOSes can even make USB sticks visible as drives if you do not boot from them, then you can use SYS without loading drivers. Even a better DOS fdisk like SPFDISK or XFDISK might work then. Last but not least, there are Linux and Windows tools which can do SYS and other steps of the process for you, e.g. "the HP tool for WinXP", or www.coli.uni-saarland.de/~eric/stuff/soft/specials/sys-freedos-linux.zip Note that USB sticks do not always come with a MBR / partition table sector which can actually boot. You can do something like "fdisk /mbr" to fix that... Maybe others on the list can add some nice HOWTO URLs, or maybe you can collect some yourself and tell on the list which ones were most useful for you :-). Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
