Hi! > Yes I have an IDE drive and a usb cdrom. > My BIOS is able to boot USB.
Good... > I guess what I'm looking for is a usb image of > FreeDos. then I can make the IDE disk the active > partition and install XP. There is no USB image because USB sticks all have different sizes. But there are several howtos specifically for making USB sticks boot FreeDOS, just google for them :-). The FAQ also has a bit of information, I guess: www.google.com/search?q=site%3Afd-doc.sourceforge.net+usb+boot On the other hand, why do you need DOS if you only want to install XP? You can use any OS to make the partition active, but in the end, you probably have to boot the XP installer to make the harddisk boot XP... You can also connect the harddisk to another PC which does have a CD/DVD drive and install XP there. Okay, XP is probably more upset than, say, Linux, when you later move the harddisk to the original PC and it finds your hardware changed a lot ;-). > So do you know of an install image of FreeDos > for a usb drive? No, but you can use: - makebootfat (for Linux and others, it can reformat the whole stick, "exact" result?) - syslinux (just copy the files and use syslinux to make things bootable...) - syslinux with memdisk (can make a diskette image boot, use for example Rugxulo's disk) - sys-freedos-linux (basically "SYS" for DOS running in Linux, copy the rest manually) - "that tool from HP" (seems to work quite well in Windows, explicit FreeDOS support) The Rugxulo diskette distro can be found as diskette images and as zips-with-files on http://rugxulo.googlepages.com/ - use the version which fits better with your needs. You only need disk one here, and it already has way more things installed than you need. You can also use my "one and two on a single 2.88 MB diskette" (on his homepage) as well, after all there is no problem for memdisk to support even such exotic diskette sizes :-). Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
