On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 6:14 PM, Jim Hall <jh...@freedos.org> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 4:07 PM, Eric Auer <e.a...@jpberlin.de> wrote: >> >> > first, am I correct that one can boot freedos from a USB stick? >> > Say with an off the shelf sort of laptop? >> >> Yes. There are several tools to put DOS on USB sticks. >> >> Yet we do not offer easy tools on our own homepage for >> that as far as I remember. The topic comes back from >> time to time on the list - maybe we could put a short >> text about the most popular methods on our homepage? > > I'd be happy to add a note to the website for this. We should also add a > note somewhere in the FreeDOS Wiki.
An issue is that there isn't a full FreeDOS Live CD. There are images you can boot from, but they are installers that assume you will install FreeDOS and add the rest once you have. > I haven't tried it, but I suppose burning the ISO to a USB stick using Live > USB Creator <https://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator/> or similar would do > it. Has anyone done this? Not for FreeDOS. I just did it to dual boot Linux and WinXP on a netbook. Booting an Linux Live CD from DVD didn't work, likely because it's an older and slow DVD drive, so I installed the ISO on a thumbdrive and booted from that instead. In my case, I used the As Easy As 123 product from PendriveLinux.com, which is intended to put a Linux ISO on a thumbdrive. It has support for many common ISOs out of the box, but can install a custom ISO that it not in it's list. I see no reason why it couldn't be used for FreeDOS. See http://www.pendrivelinux.com/universal-usb-installer-easy-as-1-2-3/ > jh ______ Dennis ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Want excitement? Manually upgrade your production database. When you want reliability, choose Perforce Perforce version control. Predictably reliable. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=157508191&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
